amelianotthepilot's Reviews (835)

I really enjoyed this comic but watched the move after and actually enjoyed the movie far more. I think the comic is cute vibes, interesting world-building, and characters but leaves a lot of the story threads unresolved and what the movie has changed and rebuilt really added to the story positively. very cute story overall though i loved the medieval but slight technology vibes with trans/queer metaphors

ughhhhh this book had me punchin walls and kicking blankets it was so cute
Iris Winnow has won a writing competition and although she didn't finish school because they ran out of money she now has the opportunity to become a columnist at a leading newspaper in the city. However, her academic rival, Roman C Kitt, is a wealthy git who seems to do everything in his power to annoy her and is her only competition for the columnist role. 
*stefan voice* This book has everything: rivals to lovers, austen-esque letter exchanges, the missed important letter trope, 1940s city vibes but with a magical twist, a rich boy not allowed to pursue his true love since shes poor, a poor girl struggling to get by but not letting anyone know or help, a WWI-esque war, and a god problem with persephoneXhades vibes.

2024 (1 star): This is such a drastic turn from the first three. The first three books were a fun little YA adventure with wild dramatic twists in each one. This book features a random trip to Russia with an idealized abusive relationship. 0/10
The plot follows Rose now in Russia pursuing Dimitri but first, she meets Sydney a human alchemist and Dimitri's entire family as well as an older Russian spirit and shadow-kissed couple. I yet again think this could've been a great Sapphic bodyguard trope story but alas. This book was so frustrating as for some reason we go against all of Rose's personality traits and she becomes a drugged-up Stockholm syndrome girlie. AND YET SHE STILL LOVES HIM this is not it guys

2014 (3 stars): I really didn't like this one as much as the first three in the series. I don't know whether or not my impression of the book was effected by my stress from the school work and musical that my show is putting on or not but I really just didn't like this one. It felt wrong and was sad throughout pretty much the entire thing.

It wasn't bad but it wasn't good and I certainly don't understand the hype. I also think this author has never seen hockey before. 

It follows Anastasia, a partner figure skater headed to the Olympics, and Nate, the captain of the hockey team headed for the NLS. They of course are enemies to lovers forced to use the same icerink after the hockey teams' rink is destroyed by vandals. I didn't love how Anastasia was that classic female trope who is an uptight, A-type, rule-following girl who is 'fixed' by her chill, go-with-the-flow boyfriend. Anastasia deals with an eating disorder, an overbearing controlling skating partner, and commitment issues all while trying to make it to the Olympics. 

I would gladly completely rip out the 2 years later epilogue it gave me such ick.

My main critique comes with the first two chapters that intro our main characters. The main male's chapter starts with him waking up next to a naked woman, having blacked out. It never addresses this as rape and largely ignores men being taken advantage of but does highlight that being drunk=no consent.

Tropes: reader girl/jock boy, dainty itty bitty tiny girl/massive man, man fixes the girl, forced proximity, enemies to lovers, falling in an ice cold lake

This is my third reading of this classic. (Once read to me as a kid and once read by myself 10 years ago in high school.) Tolkein truly has a way with words but damn they spend so much time just hanging out in a mountain.

a harrowing memoir of evanna's experience growing up with an eating disorder with a short chapter on her time working on Potter and another on being on Dancing With the Stars.

In a near future dystopia, America has now monetized 'hard action sports' wherein incarcerated people participate in battle royal style murdering to be released from their sentences early. It intersperses real historical facts against this jarring dystopian world of societal failure. The absurdity of society in this book highlights how truly not far off we are from it. In this world, Americans watch and cheer on their favorite incarcerated competitors as they murder each other in sports stadiums broadcasted on TV behind a paywall. It highlights how many people in prisons could be in there for something as simple as having weed, to a mistaken sentence, to murdering their rapist but they are all treated equally horribly in the eyes of the prison. It shows how the prison reform system is not helping communities or addressing route problems but instead tears apart families and essentially exploits incarcerated people for forced labor.

This book should be a must-read for everyone, not only is it extremely well written and truly leaves you feeling a large range of emotions while exploring different perspectives but it is also educational and thought-provoking. 

2024 (4 stars): Rereading this exactly 10 years later is wild. I loved this series as a teen and I still really enjoyed it now. It's a fun YA urban fantasy book with high school drama alongside vampire drama with a slight sapphic vibe. Compared to other 2000s YA I've reread this one surprisingly held up and I didn't find many problematic things besides the dating-your-teacher trope with a 10 year age gap between the underage MC and her instructor 💀.  The plot is fun and well written and the characters are also pretty alright.
The plot follows Rose a dhampir girl, a half vampire/half human that guards the good 'Moroi' (sorta like vegan Cullens) vampires from the evil 'Strigoi' vampires (sorta like red-eyed Volturi vampires). She shares a special bond with Lissa, the Moroi vampire that Rose unofficially guards. They both attend a vampire school in the middle of nowhere Montana 😂. Lissa has a special power unlike other Vampires, she's able to heal and use compulsion, but as she uses it it harms her mental state and makes her extremely depressed. After running away for a year Lissa and Rose are captured and returned to school and now need to blend back into the cliques while also dealing with a series of mysterious dead animal threats directed at Lissa. 

2014 (5 stars): such a good book! im excited to read the rest of the series and see the movie.  I like how Rose's character isnt a helpless little girl and neither is Lissa's they both stand up for eachother and get stuff done, yes they are not invincible they have fatal flaws but they work hard and can protect themselves to an extent.  The plot twist at the end was really exciting but i thought they should have left natalie alive so that they could have another antagonist and it was sad to see her go.  i really love the bond between lissa and rose which is sisterly and really nice. i just love this book.

little women you kno ill always love u. this classic holds such a warm place in my heart

however the ending is a bit slow and boring ngl

ugh this was so good i dont know what to say except i cant believe she did [REDACTED] dirty like that :(