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bookishfoxes 's review for:
The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried
by Shaun David Hutchinson
Honestly, I shouldn't be surprised. The summary (or blurb, I never know what the English word for it is) didn't really interest me, but I still wanted to give this a chance because I read so many great things about this author. This book wasn't for me, but I'm still planning on reading other books by this author.
I listened to this mostly as an audiobook, and sometimes switched to ebook (because apparently that's an option on Storytel). Eventually I ended up speading the audiobook up a bit, at first to 1.2x and then 1.3x, but in the end I listened with 2x because I just wanted it to end. I could've just DNFed it, I know, but I don't like DNFing books.
Not a lot happens in this book, it's mostly just July and Dino arguing and July saying she's 'not-dead'. I found July so annoying, it's a big reason why I disliked this. I just couldn't stand her and don't get why Dino wanted to be friends with her.
Talking about friendships, one of the reasons I did end up giving this a chance, was because I heard it's an lgbtq+ book that doesn't focus on romance (though it's still there on the background) but on friendship. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE romance stories, especially lgbtq+ ones, but reading books that aren't about romance is such a nice change.
Sadly, this friendship sucked, and I was not rooting for them to make up. This friendship reminds me of some toxic friendships I had in the past, which I'm gladly out of.
Aside from disliking July, I didn't care about any of the characters. And also none of the storylines interested me. (And the details about July's body still being dead and what happens to it made me feel really sick.)
Hopefully I will like the author's other books more.
I listened to this mostly as an audiobook, and sometimes switched to ebook (because apparently that's an option on Storytel). Eventually I ended up speading the audiobook up a bit, at first to 1.2x and then 1.3x, but in the end I listened with 2x because I just wanted it to end. I could've just DNFed it, I know, but I don't like DNFing books.
Not a lot happens in this book, it's mostly just July and Dino arguing and July saying she's 'not-dead'. I found July so annoying, it's a big reason why I disliked this. I just couldn't stand her and don't get why Dino wanted to be friends with her.
Talking about friendships, one of the reasons I did end up giving this a chance, was because I heard it's an lgbtq+ book that doesn't focus on romance (though it's still there on the background) but on friendship. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE romance stories, especially lgbtq+ ones, but reading books that aren't about romance is such a nice change.
Sadly, this friendship sucked, and I was not rooting for them to make up. This friendship reminds me of some toxic friendships I had in the past, which I'm gladly out of.
Aside from disliking July, I didn't care about any of the characters. And also none of the storylines interested me. (And the details about July's body still being dead and what happens to it made me feel really sick.)
Hopefully I will like the author's other books more.