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alisarae's Reviews (1.65k)
Super cute art and the story has a good message. It’s for a younger audience than I was expecting, though.
The cutest romance ever award goes to……HEARTSTOPPER!!!
Seriously tho, so cute. Nick’s mom and Tori are definitely my favorites.
Seriously tho, so cute. Nick’s mom and Tori are definitely my favorites.
Get Out plus Parasite vibes here. The first half is so slow I almost gave up, but I decided to keep reading because I liked the psychological manipulation going on. Who is manipulating whom and why is the crux of the plot, and I can honestly say that the author got me good.
I liked Mickey so much, I hope it makes an appearance in the future! Cute robots are my jam.
Simple, straightforward. This book is more about encouraging people to finish the first draft of something rather than giving advice about story crafting and plot building. It's good encouragement though.
What a quirky book with all the makings of a cult classic. It actually reminded me a lot of We Ride Upon Sticks--which I also unexplainably loved--offbeat storytelling and narrative humor, girls in powerful friendships, New England... anyways, despite taking nearly 6 months to get through this book I loved it. I loved Harper Harper and Audrey and, well, Merrit grew on me. I didn't care as much for the 1902 story-within-a-story and didn't get attached to those characters, but I did appreciate the great lengths the author went to include such lore and foreboding into the story.
Speaking of, I was struck with how much of the story weaves in real things. Pop culture references, even references to what was pop culture over a century ago, and the recurring keystone of Mary Maclane's diary are all real things. I had also heard a version of the Spite Manor story before...It left me kind of unsettled and wondering what in the story is real and what isn't. This is such a meta element of the book, as the characters themselves are constantly wondering what is their imagination, what is a hallucination, what is manipulated and what is authentic. If you know me, you know I hate dream sequences and unreliable narrators, and this book toes the line into *very* dangerous territory from an Alisa-hates-this-story perspective. But the dizzy confusion always came back to a magical reality that I not only believed, but that sold me the whole Brookhants curse.
In sum: not a book for everyone, but a certain kind of reader will really enjoy it.
Speaking of, I was struck with how much of the story weaves in real things. Pop culture references, even references to what was pop culture over a century ago, and the recurring keystone of Mary Maclane's diary are all real things. I had also heard a version of the Spite Manor story before...It left me kind of unsettled and wondering what in the story is real and what isn't. This is such a meta element of the book, as the characters themselves are constantly wondering what is their imagination, what is a hallucination, what is manipulated and what is authentic. If you know me, you know I hate dream sequences and unreliable narrators, and this book toes the line into *very* dangerous territory from an Alisa-hates-this-story perspective. But the dizzy confusion always came back to a magical reality that I not only believed, but that sold me the whole Brookhants curse.
In sum: not a book for everyone, but a certain kind of reader will really enjoy it.
Marvelous art deco style art, and such a creepy retelling of Snow White…I’ll never see it in the same way. I don’t normally like Neil Gaiman stories, but this one was pretty good.