This is one of those thrillers that tries to be something more than cheap thrills. I appreciate the attempt, but the story just felt messy and convoluted. There was so much going on that wasn't helped by the third person present tense constantly switching between the viewpoints of all the characters, some major and some minor. I binged it quickly because nothing about it interested me and I just wanted it to be over.

This book wrecked me. It's so utterly heartbreaking. These middle grade diaries are lovely in general, but specifically this one hit me really hard. It made me cry a lot, especially during the Titanic tragedy. Absolutely couldn't put it down.

As always, have to note how wonderful these books are for kids. It's only as an adult that I realize how much history I actually learned from them.

Overall, a pretty par for the course thriller. Entertaining enough to keep my interest, but nothing particularly great about this book. Probably could've been about a hundred pages shorter. All in all, not too many thoughts on this one.

I was pretty annoyed that the story focuses on the main character and her brain injury, especially her issues with memory loss. I don't usually enjoy books that focus on that, and there was no mention of either of those things in the synopsis. Just PTSD and physical, emotional, and psychological scars. I wouldn't have picked this book up if it had mentioned that, and I'm a bit annoyed about feeling tricked into reading about something I ordinarily wouldn't.

I don't think I got anything out of reading this book. Perhaps it was the translation or it could have just been Fossum's style, but the writing didn't work for me. It felt awkward and stilted throughout the book. None of the characters felt like real people, a lot of the time their emotions seemed painted on rather than genuine, and their behavior rarely seemed to fit the circumstances.

Plus it was painfully predictable. I realized the ending on page six. Literally page six. I kept hoping there was going to be a different twist or something more, but it was literally just the incredibly basic story I predicted. And it seemed ridiculous that none of the cops realized it sooner.

I literally kept forgetting that I was reading this book even though it only took me a day and a half to get through.

Really great story. It's definitely a worthwhile book about John Lewis, a civil rights leader from the 60s who's currently serving in congress. I'd highly recommend. I think for me my main issues with this book just stemmed from the fact that I'm not a graphic novel reader and it was a bit visually overstimulating. But still so incredibly wonderful.

Not quite as good as I was hoping it would be, but still fun. It's only a worthwhile read if you've read all of Tamora Pierce's Tortall books and really want a little more background, but I'm quite happy to have picked it up. It was quick and some of the new info was fun, but overall a bit of it was fairly dull and a slog to get through. But if you do love all the Tortall books, it's worth the time at least to skim through.

I really loved this. The whole cast of wholly unlikable characters were so fascinating. I never wanted to look up from the book. It did have a few issues- the representation always felt like the gay character existed for their gay role in the story, etc, at points it felt like JKR was trying too hard and going over board with descriptions of sexual desire and profanity, but overall I just really enjoyed it. This is definitely a book I'm going to be rereading in a few years.

I don't like this as much as everyone else seems to. The subject matter was interesting, but beyond that, I didn't get much out of this. I found myself wishing this was just a nonfiction account of Lale Sokolov instead of a novel. It was so heavily based on his real life, I don't understand the choice to turn this into fiction. The present tense narration also didn't work for me. It wound up making the storytelling feel stilted.

Overall it was fine, but I was relieved it was such a short book.

This was an incredibly detailed and fascinating book explain exactly what happened at Columbine and the aftermath. It's slow and not the easiest of reads, but I learned so much new information from this book, and important information at that. I'd highly recommend this if you're looking to understand what happened at Columbine as much as we can. But I don't think I'd recommend this to someone who's just casually interested.

My biggest critique was how awkward it felt within the story that he skipped over the library scene. If he didn't want to chronicle the shooting in the library to provoke copycats, that's fine (although strange since he covered their shootings outside the library and all their planning and thoughts), but I never felt like I had an understanding of who those victims were. I'm not sure most of them were more than mentions. Some of their parents were discussed later in the book, and I literally wouldn't know who their kid was.

But overall, this was incredibly worthwhile and insightful.

I didn't enjoy this quite as much as some of the other diaries by Ellen Emerson White that I've read recently, but this was still a truly lovely book. Not only is it touching and emotional, but it's also so informative of a time we often gloss over in history. I think perhaps the elongated timeline (this book covers 4+ years where many of the others are just a few months) affected my enjoyment the most, but I would highly recommend this.