My thoughts on this are pretty much the same as the first. It's a really wonderful book, I just personally struggle with the graphic novel format a bit. But I highly recommend the series.

Okay wow I wanted this to be good, but this was a one sitting read. It had my heart racing in the first five pages and I was captivated. I really enjoyed this. Just thoroughly. Could not make myself put it down. It was dark and emotional. If I'm being honest, at times I did find the dialogue a bit unrealistic and the characters seemed melodramatic, but I didn't care while reading. When the story is good, everything else is just details.

The one thing that did bother me was how abortion was treated. Every time a character used the word murder or killed in the same sentence as abortion (which was quite often), I cringed. Especially when the mother was concerned her daughter's soul might be in danger if she got an abortion. It was entirely unnecessary to the story and just awful to read. But overall, I did still really enjoy this book despite that. It was enough to make me hesitant about picking up her future books, though. I might perhaps do more research on the author before immediately trying her second novel.

I'm loosely considering this a thriller, but it's more like an intense drama. I wouldn't disagree with calling this a thriller, but I did go in knowing it was more drama than thriller, and I think that helped my enjoyment.

I don't think this book quite holds up to how much I loved in it high school, but Jeffrey Eugenides does have a wonderful writing style. He's so descriptive, but everyone has a purpose and I love it. I also adore the perspective of the boys, and how it's clear they're so wrong about so much when it comes to the girls. All the information is third hand and decades old and entirely unreliable.

The main issue is the male gaze, which is honestly undeniable. I read a lot of this book actively trying to make it seem intentional, but I don't think it was. There's too much that just doesn't work, which is disappointing. But I still think that made it much more palatable to me and I still enjoy this book so much, even for its flaws.

This was so good! I adored this book. Fiona and Danny were both such well developed characters and I loved the family dynamic each of them was dealing with. I also really enjoyed the cultural element to this book. It's not own voices (the author is American) and I am American, so I can't speak for accuracy, but purely from a writing standpoint, she captured the culture so well. I adored reading it.

My main issue was just that it was a little short and felt a little to fast paced. The relationship happened very quickly and as invested as I was in both of their character's individually, I didn't care so much for the relationship. Danny also struggled with a lot of contradictory feelings and it seemed like he came to terms with things very quickly. I just wish there'd been more time to give to some of these deeper issues.

But overall, it was so wonderful and I would highly recommend this book.

I read this very quickly and found it a really compelling story. It was easy to get through and once I was invested, I couldn't put the book down. However, I did feel like this romanticized mental illness to some degree. I'm never good at articulating why I feel that why, but the portrayal did make me uncomfortable (though I did find it accurate). For that reason it couldn't be more than a 3 star rating for me. It made me very emotional, but I don't know if that was because of the actual story or just the graphic depictions of self harm.

Overall, I found that this made me uncomfortable, and not in a good way. I think if I'd read this as a teen, it would have hurt more than helped.

I did really enjoy this book, which surprised me because I don't enjoy too many present tense book. But this flowed so well and I was invested in the whole story. I will say it was a smidge generic, but that honestly doesn't matter when you're just enthralled by the story. Definitely not perfect, but a solid 4 star read that I'm really glad I read.

I really did want to like this better than I did. I loved the characters, loved the story, loved the world building. But I didn't enjoy the writing. The short sections the story was told in felt choppy and the omniscient narrator with present tense didn't work at all for me. And I constantly felt like I was being talked down to in the way he spelled out all his themes explicitly.

I also really hate when writers start at the ending and go back to the beginning of the story. It seems like such a cheap way to gain interest, and I'm not interested in the story at that point. I'm bored of the story because I'm already focused on where it ends.

But overall I did enjoy this book and I will be reading the sequel, I just hope the writing style goes a bit better for me in that one because the story itself was wonderful.

This book was so amazing. I have thoroughly enjoyed Krakauer's writing in the past, but this book blew them all away and has definitely become one of my favorites. He takes a really in depth look at several specific sexual assaults in a college town and how they were handled by the victims, college, police, and public. It's incredibly detailed and well researched and such an important book. Krakauer is a fantastic ally in this book and does a great job being a vehicle for these women's stories without inserting himself and his thoughts over them.

This is a book I'd highly recommend especially to people who've never had personal experience with sexual assault who are looking to understand the flawed system and how it affects victims. Krakauer does a good job explaining everything, probably in part because he started this book from a point of ignorance himself. Although it's still worthwhile if you already have experience/understanding on these issues.

I do want to add that this book is incredibly graphic and difficult to read. Krakauer writes the rapes in excruciating detail and I had to keep taking breaks because it was so hard. I read a fair number of books that include rape and this was probably one of the most emotionally difficult for me to get through.

I liked this, but it definitely wasn't as good as I expected it to be. Eddie Izzard doesn't really seem to have a single purpose with this memoir and it shows. He sort of rambles all over the place and covers a lot of unrelated topics, from his mother's death and his time at boarding school to running 27 marathons in 27 days to a step by step guide in how he became a comedian. I really enjoyed learning some of the sections, but others bored me.

Overall, I'm glad I listened to this book. I'd recommend the audiobook version to fans of Eddie Izzard, partially because it's just of course going to be better with him reading it, but also because there's a lot of unedited sections and I felt like those were almost the best parts of the book, when he was just free to go off on tangents.

I'm opting not to rate this because I usually rate based off my overall reading experience and this was miserable. However, it's also a satirical fantasy dictionary and I don't know why I thought I would enjoy reading that. Fantasy isn't my main genre and satire doesn't usually amuse me.

A lot of the information was pretty entertaining. The whole book just pokes fun at fantasy tropes and cliches, and I'd recommend it if you're looking for something fun to flip through on occasion and you enjoy fantasy. I feel like I walked away with a slightly better understanding of the fantasy genre.

But at the end of the day, it's a dictionary. It probably wasn't meant to be read the way I read it.