amelianotthepilot's Reviews (835)

queer fantasy romance, twilight vibes but only the werewolves, really freakin long

i think this is TJ klune best writing, his other stand alone books were cute but i felt like the characters voices blended together and didn’t feel authentic. 

this book is told from Ox’s perspective, a teen boy who isn’t particularly good at anything, raised by his single mom. he lives in a tiny town in a house in the woods and works as a mechanic before he a mysterious family moves in at the empty house at the end of the road.

similar to twilight, but gay. Ox has a lot of similarities to bella. but instead of vampires it’s werewolf’s.

problems:
-book is realllly longggg
-There’s an alpha beta omega thing going on which is not really my vibe but it never got too sexual or weird in my opinion.
-The relationship is also a minor/adult relationship ??sorta kinda? and that also makes me 🚩🚩🚩

There’s too consistant themes throughout the book that i thought was sorta random. It’s mentioned a few times that “every monster you can imagine is real” but then they only “monster” we meet is werewolves and unhinged werewolves. Perhaps the next book will have other creatures. 
Also there’s a theme about dreaming throughout the book. With Ox struggling to realize if he’s awake or asleep. Which could have been interesting but I felt that it wasn’t set up particularly well since he is never dreaming. He just says things like ‘it’s hard to tell between dreams and reality’ all the time but there’s never a dream sequence. I think it would have been more interesting if a few dream sequences were worked in to make Ix an unreliable narrator and make the reader question if it’s a dream or not.

Overall i enjoyed it, the characters were cute and the plot was drAmaTiC but it definitely is on the verge of some big issues. Also I thought it was a YA book but it is def not (lots of cursing and also sex).

cute queer romance between a magic prince and a merman

writing wasn’t great but plot and characters were fun

this books was so good

it follows a group of girls who all live in an office-tel in Seoul. Most of them are part of the salon girl scene but all of them are affected by sexism in Korean society.

A retelling of the greek myth of the Trojan War focusing on Cassandra (seer and daughter of the king of Troy), Clytemnestra (Queen of Sparta, wife of Agamemmnon), and Elektra (daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemmnon). However the characters voices were all very similar which made it confusing between chapters.

Yet again I'm unimpressed with these retellings. I love greek mythology so much that I will read anything involving it but these retellings are really lacking for me. It's something with how the author depicts women.

It was a feminist retelling, highlighting the struggles the women had to endure and the unfairness of society but it also seemed like a dated feminist view. The women were powerless and trapped in their gender roles but it seemed like the author was content with that. I think a gender essay could definitely be written about the representation in this story which at least highlights the women's stories who were often overlooked but it really fell flat for me. There also could have been a lot more queer representation, especially since ancient Rome and Greece were known for having lots of queer relationships.

really boring

supposed to be a comedy but wasn’t very funny just absurd

no plot

follows three men, sort of musketeers, who take an oath of celibacy to the king but then fall for three women from a princess’s court and calamity ensues.

a peter pan retelling following the granddaughter of wendy who is a girlboss dr ceo helicopter parent that injects her kids with experimental drugs and was r*ped by peter pan

sorta read like a weird twisted fanfic. my favorite part is the dog at the end 

the only reason i finished this is because i was home sick and had nothing else to do

the main character is so unrelatable and not great that this book is a pain

a good retelling but she doesn’t turn into a big spider in this one :/

this one was delightful 10/10

two gentlemen depart milan and go to verona, one leaving his love julia behind and the other finding love in verona with the daughter of the duke. But once the first gentleman reaches verona he also falls for the daughter of the duke and wild Shakespeare things ensue.

a collection of stories about the Chinese American experience touching on immigration, generation gaps, sexism, racism, and more

really well written interesting stories

fun little cute adventure romance