I think I just don’t like the romance genre im so sorry everyone. Also everyone said this book is so tragic and full of longing and truthfully it just felt like every other romance??? Someone explain the hype

I think I just don’t like funny books. It remains unclear if my occasional revulsion about the events unfolding in this book originate from genuine objection or from some mix of self loathing, but the fact remains that I just don’t think this book was for me: mothers and daughters (read: mommy issues) graphic (and I mean GRAPHIC and not even yummy sapphic) sexual content, and being Jewish (although the Rabbi character construct and the golem were perhaps the most compelling parts of the book). 

These poor babies. I want to hug them

Literally so disturbing and for WHAT. I like a dark novel but the sudden body horror was simply too much and wasn’t even remotely connected to the plot or any character development. Shock just for scandal’s sake. I couldn’t recommend it to anyone in good conscience. Also, the characters never revealed who they were. Each action they made caught me off guard consistently; I’d think I knew each character and then they’d react in a way completely unhinged from any prior development or plot. Seemed confused in its vision and goal; instead all I got was that to be a modern lesbian you had to mutilate yourself— literally and figuratively. I thought about finishing just to say I’d read it, but after sleeping on the horrifying porno scene, I couldn’t justify putting myself through that for a book that wasn’t even important to me in the first place. 

Delicious. Scrumptious use of multiple narrators— it added something I didn’t even know could be added to an already perfect series and world. Couldn’t stand to put it down. Pierce Brown has done it again!!!!! 

Me 🤝 Books where nothing happens
This book felt like living in someone else’s head for a day. Natural and unnerving, relatable and alienating. 
But I laughed out loud!

I gasped more when I found out

she had killed the dogs than when I found out she had killed her friends

Occasionally veering dangerously close to Gay Millennial territory but still a scrumptious read. An ode to college friendship and growing apart but not out of love