wisteriariaa's reviews
107 reviews

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

Twelve Bones by Rosie Talbot
Did not finish book. Stopped at 45%.

I’ll finish at a different time I cannot get into this one right now.

This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is one of the best fantasy books I’ve ever read. Can’t wait to read the rest of this trilogy 

Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I don’t know how to describe the experience of reading this book. Just read it, trust me.

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
Did not finish book. Stopped at 22%.

I severely overestimated how much time I’d have to read this right now lol way too busy

The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
Did not finish book. Stopped at 23%.

This is just really failing to capture my attention right now. 

Laid-Back Camp, Vol. 1 by Afro

lighthearted relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

#NoEscape by Gretchen McNeil

mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I don’t know, I’m not sure how I feel about this book. On the one hand, it’s ridiculous and campy in a way that I like. On the other hand, that final twist at the end…..it just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Like, I like parts of it but it just doesn’t completely add up.  It makes the whole thing feel very tacked on. Because, there already was a twist, a pretty good one, two chapters before that FINAL twist, and it was pretty good! It made sense and the proper clues were laid out for me to figure it out on my own before it was revealed. I mean, I was also able to figure out the final twist before it happened, but I’m not really happy with some parts of the final twist, if that makes sense.

Also, so much of the writing in this book is so juvenile that I feel like it MUST be for the younger side of the YA spectrum, but then the characters are saying fuck every two pages and the last bit of the book with the wood chipper is too gruesome for any younger teens to be reading, which was confusing.  I will say that despite everything I didn’t like the author did keep me hooked and reading so I guess that’s all that matters.