I don't really read a lot of fantasy or YA and this was both. The writing was too simplistic and everything was so damn dramatic I kept rolling my eyesI don't really read a lot of fantasy or YA and this was both. The writing was too simplistic and everything was so damn dramatic I kept rolling my eyes. Not rating this because I stopped 1/3 of the way through because I got bored....more
Stopped reading a few chapters in because it hadn't grabbed me and also I apparently didn't read the plot heavily relied on mental illness and a baby.Stopped reading a few chapters in because it hadn't grabbed me and also I apparently didn't read the plot heavily relied on mental illness and a baby. eeeep, not good reading for this preggo....more
This book started off atmospheric and creepy and then just got straight up weird and annoying. I got up to 70% before deciding to set this aside.
It's This book started off atmospheric and creepy and then just got straight up weird and annoying. I got up to 70% before deciding to set this aside.
It's not a thriller or a horror, but more of a suspense/drama with some light supernatural cliché elements. As a former Wiccan the witch and Wiccan parts were super frustrating to read. I know this is fiction, but geeeez way to completely not research anything and stick to misconceptions.
There's a heavy dose of fat phobia throughout the whole book around one character that wasn't necessary and was just gross. This dude also goes on for pages about women's nipples and it added nothing to the story....more
**spoiler alert** I got halfway through this book before I realized I had read it already and then I got bored. Maybe I'm just sad because it's trying**spoiler alert** I got halfway through this book before I realized I had read it already and then I got bored. Maybe I'm just sad because it's trying to be a western horror and I just read an incredible western horror (In the Valley of the Sun) or I'm not in the mood, but this book is weird. My complaints: Too damn wordy. Cutter trying to mimic King? Idk but too many words to say the same damn thing. Just plain weird grossout moments for the fun of it I guess?! Idk, not doing it for me and I'm confused so I'm setting it aside....more
I had high hopes for The Furies because I love The Craft and dark stories of the dangers that lurk in female friendships, but unfortunately, the FurieI had high hopes for The Furies because I love The Craft and dark stories of the dangers that lurk in female friendships, but unfortunately, the Furies didn't satisfy me. I made it 30% of the way through before I gave up on this book. I was so bored. Cliche on cliche kept happening; the main protagonist is "entirely average" and then gets in with some cooler girls and they are kinda mean, but Violet is desperate for friends and so she will do anything.
Violet was so dumb in everything she did and she spends the vast majority of the beginning just whining and full of teenage angst. Everything is described about a thousand different times in a way where I think the author wanted to make this The Secret History, but it didn't work....more
This book starts intriguingly enough with someone murdering someone else and getting bored with how long it's taking them to die.
Unfortunately, my intThis book starts intriguingly enough with someone murdering someone else and getting bored with how long it's taking them to die.
Unfortunately, my interest in this book died shortly after.
I couldn't connect with any of the characters (all outlandish and awful) and the writing felt dull. I got bored and set The Retreat aside and tried to come back to it, but it wasn't for me.
This book thinks really highly of itself but fell flat for me.
What starts out as "omg is my husband having an affair"...stays that way and I never wasThis book thinks really highly of itself but fell flat for me.
What starts out as "omg is my husband having an affair"...stays that way and I never was thrilled with anything. The characters keep making choices that no one in real life would make and the police are dumb and don't really seem to care about the murder at all. Not at all the thrilling story, I was promised, just dull and predictable....more
I thought it'd be funny, but it was boring as heck and I didn't care for the characters.
Pretty Albanian maid escapes Why 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 narrator 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 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 gave into the hype. After trying to read Miracle Creek for 3 days now and I'm setting it aside as a DNF because it's just not doing it for me. ThingsI gave into the hype. After trying to read Miracle Creek for 3 days now and I'm setting it aside as a DNF because it's just not doing it for me. Things that didn't work for me: . 🔸There's so many characters I feel like I need too take notes on who's who and why they are relevant. The chapters switch POV and it's confusing. 🔸I was expecting a thriller and this is definitely more of a courtroom drama. There's a lot of dialogue and back and forth "she said and then she said" and it's boring me.🤷🏼♀️ 🔸I haven't finished the book, so correct me if I'm wrong, but the reader is supposed to hate protestors for wanting people to love their children as they are and not think of autism as a burden?!...more
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