bumblemee's Reviews (258)

very fun to read competetive sports setting, the characters are loveable and i'm interested to see them grow together in the following volumes bc i think there's a lot of potential for fun character dynamics.

This book series still feels like a fever dream. I can't even rationally explain why I liked this book as much as I did, it's just so addictive. Maybe I had to read the first book to get used to this insanity and now that I know what to expect I'm intrigued (also I am finally able to tell all the characters and their backstories apart). This book made me love Neil so much; it also had some amazing sports moments (I literally punched my bed in excitement at one point), the beginning of a fucked up yet beautiful found family and was paced in a way that had me hooked the whole time. - I think there's a lot one can criticize (like the way Andrew talks, imo it's a little over the top for what the author is probably trying to achieve), but I don't have the nerve to write an in depth analysis right now :D 
I also think that most ppl who read these books know what to expect from them and will love them for it. I think I'm one of these people now, I liked this one a lot more than the first one and am now excited to start the third one soon. Especially bc the last sentence was pretty badass. 

Ich tue mich schwer, eine aussagekräftige Sternewertung zu geben, weil gerade lyrische Texte so super subjektiv wahrgenommen werden (alle anderen natürlich auch, aber Lyrik irgendwie mehr). Insgesamt habe ich gerne zugehört (habe die von der Autorin vorgetragene Audio-Fassung); manche Texte haben mit mir resoniert, manche wollten für mich zu viel ohne neues zu sagen, andere wollten weniger und haben mir wunderbar gefallen. Auf jeden Fall durchweg schöne Worte.

I don't really know what to make of this. It was definitely sweet and fun to read and I liked the characters a lot. It also felt a little underdeveloped though and sometimes, though I know it's not meant to be read that way, I felt like Hana did things that weren't 100% okay with Machi (it was a little abmbigious sometimes). And there was a lot of boob commentary, which I could've lived without.

No matter how much I agree that the Maze Runner series isn't that good of a book series after the first one, I will forever love Newt. And reading this showed me again why that is.