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The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin
4.0
I admit I had kinda low expectations in reading this. Not that I thought it would be bad but it didn't seem like the sort of book that I'd enjoy. Turns out I was wrong. This book was really enjoyable and one I couldn't put down. I usually hate love triangles but this one was handled really well. I wasn't entirely sold on the ending but not doing what I wanted is hardly reason to fault a book.
The Registry by Shannon Stoker
2.0
On the one hand it's kind of refreshing to have a lead character that isn't exceptional (Mia is very pretty but otherwise not particularly clever or observant, and very susceptible), but it turns out that such a character isn't particularly interesting. I think the only reason I was rooting for her success is because the things she was up against were so stereotypically bad that I had no choice. The villain is just archetypical psychopath - the author couldn't have spelt it out more if they'd flashed back to him torturing animals in his youth - and the social norms she's working against are literally described as slavery in the second chapter.
It's kind of an interesting world and I like the way that it is revealed in excerpts at the start of each chapter from the girls guide to the registry. But it's also chocked full of cliches and such two-dimensional uncompelling characters. Not to mention the cringingly obvious set-up for the final chapter.
I'll probably read the next book if I come across it, but I won't be too bothered if I don't.
It's kind of an interesting world and I like the way that it is revealed in excerpts at the start of each chapter from the girls guide to the registry. But it's also chocked full of cliches and such two-dimensional uncompelling characters. Not to mention the cringingly obvious set-up for the final chapter.
I'll probably read the next book if I come across it, but I won't be too bothered if I don't.
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
5.0
This book is so beautifully written I hardly have the words for how good it was. The characters are rich and so real that your heart just breaks for Caden as he goes through the worst of it. I was in tears at the worst of it. The imagery and language is perfect and precise. Features of style are used almost as a model of Caden's mental processes shifting in tense and chronological time.
For me this is one of those books that everyone needs to read.
For me this is one of those books that everyone needs to read.