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Oh, so the bipolar girl wasn't the killer, she just aided and abetted the killer. That's so much better. *eyeroll*

What? What? This makes literally no sense at all. If you can't find a reason he could be the murderer, why did you suddenly decide he was the murderer and shoot him? God, this book is an utter mess.

This is the most absurdly implausible book I think I've ever read. And I read books about magic and dragons!

Ohmigod, this is horrific. Minnie is having a genuine breakdown and her best friend is basically sitting there telling her how she's horrible and crazy. Ugh!

Please tell me I'm not really supposed to believe the killer is someone the text has already said is dead. We're not really going there, are we? This is cheesy enough as it is.

This might be the worst book I've read all year. And guys, I've read Cassandra Clare this year. D:

Ugh. I'm so disgusted with how this book uses Minnie's bipolar disorder to make Minnie look horrible and make Meg look like a poor martyr who's such a good friend to someone terrible. It's gross.

She hitched the comfortable up over her head--sympathizing suddenly with Eskimos, mummies, and women in burkas--and quickened her pace. OMG really? I know this book wants to be progressive, with a black love interest, two whole Asian girls and a Samoan guy, but seriously, that sentence is just made of No.

Meg, go ahead and call him a douche bag. Seriously. He's a fucking douche bag.

I'm really tired of the YA trope of a Plain Jane with an atrocious "best friend". Like, if the only way you can make your character look good is to prop her up against five tons of bad, misogynist stereotype, you need to go back to writing school.

Ahahahahaha! There is a game app for the new Mortal Instruments movies and omg, it's so butt ugly, it looks like it fell out of the early nineties. Even the first Mortal Kombat game is embarrassed for it! XD

So many people have completely wrong-headed ideas about autism and more and more lately I just want to stand at the top of the nearest mountain and scream at the top of my lungs "THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH ME!"

Oh my god why did I think this could possibly be a good idea? How could I have thought there was a possibility this wouldn't go wrong in every conceivable way? *sob*

"The broadcast cut again, to Mutavore hammering away at another fallen Jaeger, beating it into scrap with the Sydney Opera House in the background." Sweet baby Jesus, that's some poor sentence construction. At first I thought it was saying the kaiju was using the actual Sydney Opera House to beat the Jaeger with.

If anyone needs some cheering up, here's a video of prairie dogs being adorable, while I squee in the background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTi_T...

Why is a white girl playing Rose Hathaway in Vampire Academy? What parts of "brown skin" and "Turkish father" doesn't Hollywood understand?

Finished Failure to Communicate today. Oh god, why do I always end up feeling like shit when I finish a manuscript? I should be celebrating and instead I'm bummed.

The vampires that attack him are Meyerpires? For realz? I can't decide whether that's hilarious or horrifying.

"The author also hint that the half-gorgon's tears had aphrodisiac properties, and were potentially addictive. Something to watch for when the sequels came out." Okay, Hines, considering your main character and what he can do, that's hella creepy. I did not expect to see something like that in a book by one of the few sensible male voices in spec fic.

Okay but where is the paperback edition? It's not listed on GR for some reason. I had the exact same problem with the last book I read.

Who wrote 4500 words today? Ohhh yeaaah.

Good to know my ability to cope via snark is still in full swing. That's how I know my new diagnosis hasn't knocked me on my ass completely.

What the hell? Why has Stephanie suddenly turned into a horrible brat? And what's with the instalove? I'm glad this is cleaned up a little, but I don't like it turning into standard fare.

Diagnosed with fibromyalgia this morning. Because I really needed to add something else to list of problems I have that half the world doesn't believe in and the other half doesn't know exists. >.<

Lindskold's influence is pretty clear here. So far there's way less infodumping and none of that "use an exclamation point at the end of sentences in the prose! Do it lots! That'll make it sound younger!" thing that Weber did on his own.

Ah, I think that's the mustache twirling villain my husband promised me.

The man could really use to learn some zoology. Predators do not work that way, Weber.

Okay, Mr. Weber, I'm enjoying this quite a lot, but that's going to change if you keep trotting out politics like that

Writing an autistic character when you're autistic isn't so much like writing a character as it is like digging out your own guts with a particularly dull spoon, with the eventual intention that all the world will be able to see them.

That awkward moment when you come across an indie book that is titled, in all seriousness: The Boy Who Sneaks In My Bedroom Window. I am legit screaming inside my brain meats right now.