Is it really a love triangle when there’s an obvious right answer?

(Yes, I am talking about Liwei and no, you cannot change my mind.)

While this wasn't my favorite book in the series, I did enjoy it more than Starsight . Luckily, Spensa is one of the few characters that I can handle monologues from.

"'Chet,' I said, 'you've always been afraid of the Path of Elders. Why?'
'I worry that if I walk it,' he said, 'I'll stop being myself.'
'Why?'
'Because every path we walk changes us, Spensa,' he answered"(323).

Things I never thought I'd enjoy: three novellas about slugs.

"'Sharp blades, dangerous people, unbeatable odds - those are as intoxicating as drink'"(187). That quote alone explains my taste in books.

A heist novel with a corgi? No wonder I enjoyed it.

I liked the worldbuilding and found the magic system intriguing, but I just couldn't get into the story. The plot dragged a bit and I didn't like Sonya as the protagonist.
Rosya was the best character by far, and he had a page time of maybe 30 pages.

“‘Never touch a mummified body part if you don’t know where it’s been. That’s my motto.’ ‘Holds true with un-mummified ones, too,’George said. ‘That’s the motto I live by’”(216).
“George paused. ‘Do I have to get up and come around to lean against the table in a cool, leaderish way like you?’ ‘That’s entirely optional.’ ‘Good, because my legs are too short to do it comfortably. My buttocks would keep sliding off’”(260-261).
“‘Is it a girl, do you think?’ George breathed. ‘The legs don’t seem like a grandma’s legs. Not that I’ve looked at the legs of that many grandmas, obviously. I’ve got other hobbies’”(319).

This book taught me that I have a horrible sense of humor, but I thought it was the best one in the series so far.

Yet another Marie Lu book that I binged in one day.
I loved all of the characters (especially Red, because any character with a tragic backstory is automatically a favorite) and I couldn't put the book down.
Apparently books about war crimes pique my interest.

I have such mixed feelings on this book that I don't think it's fair to give it any rating out of five stars.

Objectively, this is a really well-written book. The actual writing itself is beautiful and hypnotic, and while it reminded me of older classics, I found it easier to follow. Additionally, every single one of the characters embodied the term "morally gray" in some way (but I'll say more about that later). I also found it super cool to see characters studying the "classics" and literature because I feel like a lot of modern academia books focus on the sciences.

But did I enjoy reading it? Not so much.
The writing style was probably the only thing that kept me intrigued past the first fifty pages. Admittedly, this was outside of my comfort genre so my level of enjoyment and lack of attention span can be attributed to that. I just kept expecting "things" to happen (I say "things" but I don't know what exactly I was hoping for). All of the "action" happened in the first half of the book, and the second felt like it dragged a bit.
As for the characters, I found Richard and Francis to be the most tolerable in that my main grievances with them involved their tendency to be drunk/high at any given point in the story. A small part of me wanted to like Henry (he felt like a stereotypical tragic character) and I will admit that I didn't hate him as much as I should've, but much like my feelings towards the book itself, I can't decide on my opinion towards him. Camilla and Charles were tolerable at first but then they slept together?! By the end of the book, I was hoping that Charles would die because I despised him. And Bunny? I pitied him at first because he seemed to be the odd man out, but I quickly grew to hate his little racist, homophobic butt.
The whole novel reminded me of a mix between The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake, The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater , Vicious by V. E. Schwab, and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I did enjoy the themes and the writing style, and I'm glad I read the book.
Overall, my opinion probably shouldn't be trusted because I have a habit of disliking popular books. It truly was a good novel for any fan of classics and dark academia, but if you're more of a fantasy/sci-fi reader like me, you might not enjoy it as much.

I'm slowly learning that I don't like adult high fantasy as much as young adult (which probably says something about my questionable taste in literature, but whatever). The Unbroken is still a great story, it just felt a bit slow to me.

The entire book can be summed up in this:

Joon: Hey, Mina, don’t do that thing.
Mina: *does the thing and then bad things happen*
Nari: Hey, Mina, don’t do that thing.
Mina: *does the thing and then bad things happen*
Shin: Hey, Mina, don’t do that thing.
Mina: *does the thing and then bad things happen*
Namgi: Hey, Mina, don’t do that thing.
Mina: *does the thing and then bad things happen*
Kirin: Hey, Mina, don’t do that thing.
Mina: *does the thing and then bad things happen*
Mina: Hmm, I wonder why all this stuff keeps happening. Must be the gods, ignoring me again.

Let’s be honest, if not for Namgi, Shin, and Kirin I probably wouldn’t have even bothered to finish the book.