princessjasminefliesaway's reviews
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Soft Thorns by Bridgett Devoue

reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

Bravely taking her experience into beautiful but simple poetry.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Sexual assault

Steampunk! an Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories by

4.0

This was such a good book to get me into the world of Steampunk and at the end of each tale, you found yourself missing the odd characters and wanting to know what happened to them next. In the middle, there was a couple of tales that went on for too long and had no short story feel that I didn't like which I had to take away a star for but apart from that, they were mostly perfection.

My favourite was the second story about the Glory Girls, not that the ones after didn't beat it, I am just a stickler for that sort of girl power/cute romance.

The Waking World by Tom Huddleston

5.0

This book is incredible! The start, I admit, was a bit slow but once you got to the third chapter, it just kept getting better and better. You do expect some of the "twists" but that's only because Tom Huddleston (ARE WE GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOW GREAT HIS NAME IS?!) hinted a lot at them.

I love how he set it and without spoiling, it does relate to King Arthur without you really meeting him. If that makes sense.

Saving June by Hannah Harrington

5.0

As you can from when I started and then finished it, I pretty much devoured this book and for good reason to. This book is I N C R E D I B L E!

The music playlists were beautiful! The emotion in the characters were down to earth and REAL, not like the Pretty One (film, not spoiler as it shows it in the trailer) where she doesn't really acknowledge her sister is ACTUALLY DEAD until the right end!

I related with them, I laughed with them! I want to now go on my own road trip! I have a lot of emotions about this one!

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

3.0

Well, the start made me want to stab something. That is not being overdramatic but realistic, like this book. I guess I am way too used to the cutest romance to grace our earth and not the realistic way of getting a boyfriend/girlfriend but seriously the start was just SO boring.

The middle got better, definitely, and the end was ON. POINT.

I guess maybe I didn't appreciate the book as much as others because I have never been in a relationship so I couldn't relate as much but that doesn't seem quite right.

I loved the references, even though I knew none of them, and I disliked how the whole last chapter was basically her putting herself down, the character we had come to love.

Love Hurts by Malorie Blackman

3.0

Right, this is a good book if you like other books being spoiled for you as the amount on extracts compared to little stories is huge but I enjoyed it.

My favourite parts being:
Humming through my fingers by Malorie Blackman
Tumbling by Susie Day (IT IS LESBIANS THROUGH TUMBLR AND ONE IS POORLY AND I DIE AND IT'S ALL SHERLOCK REFERENCES AND AHHH I DIEEEE!)
Miss Lucy had a steamboat by David Levithan
Endless Love: The Valentine of Daniel and Lucinda by Lauren Kate
The Unicorn by James Dawson

Ones I forgot but when looking back enjoyed:
More Than This by Patrick Ness
You Against Me by Jenny Downham
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
Gentlewoman by Laura Dockrill
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
Echo Boy by Matt Haig

Ones that were messed up and I am seriously sickened by:
Junk by Melvin Burgess (SHE'S FOURTEEN AND THEY HAVE SEX! SERIOUSLY?! AND THE PEOPLE LOOKING AFTER THEM LET THEM!!!)
Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma (INCEST, ARE YOU SERIOUS?! WHAT THE HELL?!)

So get this book not for the extracts but for the short stories, there are two that are seriously messed up and just because it says Love Hurts doesn't mean all the love stories are going to hurt you, in fact some enlighten you.

Weiblich, single, tot - spukt by Tamsyn Murray

4.0

I wanted to give this book 3.5 stars but goodreads wouldn't let me so 4 it is. I do love this book, it is quite a dramatic read and the characters are quite thought out. The only thing that slightly irritated me was the murderer. He was always kind of pushed to the side and the drama with him didn't really matter which for a book about dying, you would think be the opposite.

SPOILERS NOW:

Also... her destiny is to get Jeremy with his soulmate. Bull. Her destiny was to find her murderer, her destiny was to help Hep, her destiny was to wake up Ryan's dad, her destiny was to make Jeremy become more confident. Her destiny was NOT to give Jeremy someone else to lean on. Seriously?!

tactics, Volume 1 by Kazuko Higashiyama, Sakura Kinoshita

3.0

I love the storyline and characters but the fact that humour is used so frequently and shoved down people's throats, it sort of becomes a parody more than a story.

I'll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan

3.0

Good book; liked the originality of it, especially showing the stalkerish romance point of view BUT Emily and Sam's romance is so underdone, like how did they even fall in love? Their time together in the book was so short and never written about. It was more a self development character book than a romance.

How They Met, and Other Stories by David Levithan

2.0

This book consisted of a lot of the same plots.

Gay couples facing the world of discrimination and while I love that, three quarters of the book were gay men and the other quarter was straight couples. There wasn't any lesbian couples, there wasn't any transvestites or any in between. It was all either gay men or straight men.

I did like the Jewish Gay Couple though, that was pretty sweet and it had a nice plot twist at the end too but my point still remains.