I thought it'd be funny, but it was boring as heck and I didn't care for the characters.
Pretty Albanian maid escapesWhy did I attempt to read this?!
I thought it'd be funny, but it was boring as heck and I didn't care for the characters.
Pretty Albanian maid escapes sex trafficking without being touched (so she's still a pure Virgin) only to be creeped on by her Mister who she cleans for and is a crappy dude. YAWNNNNN...more
I loved the introduction to this book! I believed I'd find engaging stories about women/ people who are nonbinary or identify as women and their relatI loved the introduction to this book! I believed I'd find engaging stories about women/ people who are nonbinary or identify as women and their relationships around food and power struggles with their gender identity, but the majority of the stories missed the mark for me. They were too food-focused for me and read like food fetish porn.
I really appreciate a collection put together featuring only female, non-binary, marginalized sex or gender identities though and really hope they continue doing this!...more
**spoiler alert** There's 71 chapters in this book and I'm giving up on chapter 45. There's so much going on and the weird vulgar detective subplot is**spoiler alert** There's 71 chapters in this book and I'm giving up on chapter 45. There's so much going on and the weird vulgar detective subplot is overtaking the main murdery plot and I don't like it! . . . . . . .. some spoilers ahead .. . . .. ... .... ...... ....... ........ ............ .......... ......... ...... ..... ... .. . . . Typing out those dots was honestly more exciting than this book to me.🤷🏻♀️ I loved the author's first book, but As Long As We Both Should Live fell flat for me. Frankly, I was bored and confused, but too bored to want to to continue-- even after Marie isn't the dead one! Matt is supposed to be the bad guy and yeah, he's a cheater so he sucks yada yada, but surprise surprise Marie is more clever than him. Some people should just get over it already and get divorced and this book would have been more interesting to me if it was all about his first wife faking her death. The back and forth of the chapters from wife to wife was confusing enough and then suddenly there's this foul mouthed detective and his weird subplot about murdering someone maybe once?!? Wtf. I didn't sign up for that bullshit! I had no idea it was going to verge into detective against detective water cooler chat stuff and I wasn't into it and it didn't grab my attention. 💅🏻
I was gifted a free copy of this book by the author in return a review.
Osgood As Gone sounds like a book I would be into; ghosts, unreliable narratorI was gifted a free copy of this book by the author in return a review.
Osgood As Gone sounds like a book I would be into; ghosts, unreliable narrator down on their luck, drama between friends and a mystery that rivals a Scooby-Doo episode! Fun stuff! However, I couldn't get into the story. The writing was confusing and messy and Pru was all over the place like the author was trying to combine a bunch of characters together to please everyone all in one person! That's a long sentence just to say I didn't like them, or the other characters. I liked Zach, the tech nerd, but he felt like a facsimile of every nerdy foil anywhere. Pru was the too-cool-for-school alcoholic too, BUT don't forget she's also queer and maybe trans?!IDK, it was nice to see nonstraight folk represented in a book, but can they be good people ?! I was also turned off at the repeated mentions of dildos. Like, I get it Pru likes to fuck and use dildos; cool, whatever, but the constant mentioning of them just chilling around felt like a bad sitcom playing a laugh track. This was in the first two chapters and I want you to know because I had to know. Also, WTF is up with the em dash use?! It's cool and all, but does almost every paragraph have to end with one?! Let these people finish their damn thoughts!
I got 45% through this story because I hate to be that bitch who writes a review for a book without reading it, and I want my time back.
I tried to read this and I understand it got published because it's based on true events and supposed to be feminist, but I found it so blase.
First ofI tried to read this and I understand it got published because it's based on true events and supposed to be feminist, but I found it so blase.
First of all, there's scarce punctuation and the grammar is all weird. There are no question marks either and the sentences go on forever with the man narrating the story going on long tangents that don't really relate to me. So, if you find those things annoying in a book perhaps try this as an audiobook or skip it.
I skipped around so much just to get to the end to see what happened and I was left feeling very blah about it all. I don't like how the story unfolds from a man's perspective (because the women can't read or write) and he's so fricken mundane I don't even remember his name. The real event this story is based on sounds absolutely terrible and it's saddening to me that the author is basically trying to cash in on that by writing this book.
I really tried to finish this book, but I just couldn't get into it. The flow was weird and didn't transition between characters for each new chapterI really tried to finish this book, but I just couldn't get into it. The flow was weird and didn't transition between characters for each new chapter well, but that could be the translation....more
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