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Written in Red by Anne Bishop
3.0
I kind of wish Bishop had developed Asia's reasons for doing what she did a bit more though. It felt a little fake for Asia to be doing all those things just to perhaps star in some TV series. And Meg was leaning a bit toward the Mary Sue side for my taste: everybody likes her--even the Elementals!--and she's clueless. Granted, her cluelessness was explained but it just grated on my nerves a tad bit too much. But I'm still intrigued enough to need the next book now!
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
3.0
Yes, the premise was pretty much ridiculous, and the ending was predictable. But damn it, the romance was too cute!
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
2.0
2 stars for the majority of the book, but taking into account the times i legitimately wanted to throw my kindle across the room lowers the rating to 1.5 starsfirst, the good parts: that prologue thing is straight fire. and sometimes liggett's writing really shines through in a particular sentence or turn of phrase, and that always made me really happy.but look, i have too many problems with this stupid book to list them all, so here are the first few i could think of:1) how does this plot make any sense? like, i get that men are sexist pigs, but how the actual fuck
is this supposed to make any sense?2) why, for the love of all that is good, is there another stupid stockholm romance? for reference: "stockholm romance" is the term i just invented for when the girl is saved or kidnapped (or both) by a hero that usually has evil intentions, only for the girl to fall in love with him, which makes the hero realize how wrong he was, and they set off into the sunset, the end (see stockholm's syndrome). they are incredibly common and extremely problematic -- bad guys cannot be redeemed! they're just bad! don't risk getting yourself into an abusive relationship because you think you can fix him!
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how does it make any sense for them to send 16-year-old girls off into the wilderness, drug them, and wait for them to either kill each other or be skinned by the poachers? wouldn't that just make the girls more violent and less prone to becoming good little wives?is this supposed to make any sense?2) why, for the love of all that is good, is there another stupid stockholm romance? for reference: "stockholm romance" is the term i just invented for when the girl is saved or kidnapped (or both) by a hero that usually has evil intentions, only for the girl to fall in love with him, which makes the hero realize how wrong he was, and they set off into the sunset, the end (see stockholm's syndrome). they are incredibly common and extremely problematic -- bad guys cannot be redeemed! they're just bad! don't risk getting yourself into an abusive relationship because you think you can fix him!
Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom by Takeshi Obata, Tsugumi Ohba
4.0
Death Note!Wow, all my reviews of manga are just like horrible fan-girling. Ew.
Death Note, Vol. 2: Confluence by Takeshi Obata, Tsugumi Ohba
4.0
Woah, things are getting dark, man!
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Also, the one time a great female character is introduced, she dies ... *cries*
Death Note, Vol. 3: Hard Run by Takeshi Obata, Tsugumi Ohba
3.0
Too much internal thinking and not enough drama, but still pretty cool!
History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
Ugh, I was reading reviews of More Happy Than Not and I heard that this book was being released in 2016, but no, of course life couldn't be that nice to me!December 2017.December.2017.I'm so done with life right now.EDIT: Well, at least the date changed to January. Still too damn far away, but it'll have to do. More importantly: why is the 1st review of this book 2 stars? I simply can't comprehend this idea of rating a Silvera book anything less than 4.
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki
2.0
The only really good thing about this book was the artwork. I never had a clear idea of what exactly was going on in the book, which is never a good thing. And the characters were just ... blegh.