YA is not really my cup of tea, but I could not pass up the opportunity to read a book with aroace characters! 

This one was easy to read and the "mystery" of the characters not  knowing who was behind each account kept me engaged. I will say that Joe was a bit too dramatic for my liking and she was not the most likeable character lol. I found it kind of hard to believe that Sophie liked her so much bc her personality was...interesting. 

Had this not had any aroace rep, I would not have picked it up, but I liked where the story went and that there are YA books available with aroace representation in them~ 

Would recommend! 

Borrowed this one from my cousin since she said she has been trying to read it all the way through for a few years and have yet to finish it. I volunteered to read it for her and let her know if it's worth the read. 

I will say that while I enjoyed this book, I wish it felt less like I was dropped in the middle of the second book in the series. It felt like I was missing a lot of the information about the general world and not enough was not explained. This might have been intentional to get the reader to read the next book in the series, but I was definitely confused at times as to what exactly was going on. 

The reader is forced to use context clues to figure out what is happening in this failing world which I kind of liked, but I still think more could have been explained. I wouldn't have minded it so much if Watts didn't use so much scientific jargon in addition to not giving a lot of information about the world itself. I found myself very confused about what the rifters were actually doing and why majority of the time. 

In my personal opinion, none of the actual things they were doing in the ocean were that important to the story and I would have been happy with a simple explanation. 

Other than that, I really enjoyed the deep dive (pun intended) into the human psyche and the character study this offered.

It's interesting how I actually felt bad for the pedophilic character in the end, and was a bit sad that the one that had anger issues was murdered.

I think the biggest downfall of this book was how the "big reveal" with

Lubin went. I'm not entirely sure what he was talking about. I'm assuming we were supposed to be surprised about something other than him murdering Acton, but I don't know what it was as it was never fully explained.

This definitely would have gotten a 4 star review had that part been handled better. 

Ultimately, I enjoyed this one and found the character studies very interesting but I am not interested in continuing the series. 

This was a very adorable read!

I think this is perfect for any middle grader, it veers towards the younger end of middle grade, but older children can appreciate it as well. 

The plot only takes place over a few weeks, and the storyline is easy to follow with not too many larger words. 

The art is adorable and really helps with the visualization of the characters and their characteristics. 

I enjoyed the cute story line and the issues the main character had to overcome. There is a death mentioned, but it doesn't happen on page and it was handled very well by the author for a younger reader. 

Would recommend! 

This was a very strange read.

I was so excited for this one and couldn't wait to borrow it from the library and it was a disappointing read. 

This started started promising and quickly went down hill. 

Too many points of view, not enough important dialogue, too much random details that added nothing to the story, too many acronyms, too much science and bureaucratic jargon, not a believable drug, not believable situations, not believable character reactions, and not a believable story line at all. 

By the end I was bored and tired of the unbelievable reactions and situations and sick of all the pointless points of views. 

Also it's worth noting that black is said a lot of times in the book (like the color black), but Black, as in the people, is also used a lot and the author does not capitalize Black when talking about people. #1, I dislike modern books that refuse to capitalize Black, I find that very weird and disrespectful. #2, it made it confusing since the book talks about the color black and Black people a lot with no differentiation. 

Stephen Kearse can definitely write technically well, but he does not know how to make a story come together well or enjoyable. 

Would not recommend. :(

A very quick informative read, very enjoyable. 

Dnf.
The cover art is perfection!

Other than the that, the main character is unlikable and, so far, flat.
 
The world building is severely lacking, literally nothing was explained. 

There are commas missing, which makes reading hard to get into, and the writing is choppy and not my cup of tea. 

Not interested in pushing myself to read this when it was a random borrow from the library and it's not giving me what I need. 

Toni Morrison could write about milk turning sour and it would be beautiful. 

While not much actually happens in this one, so much does happen and Morrison knows how weave together words in a way that keeps me engaged even for the mundane. 

Pilate was my absolute favorite character. She was so interesting and full. 
Chapter 6, chapter 6, chapter 6!, wow. 

Loved reading this.

The art in this one is so good, but the stories left a lot to be desired. 
They were pretty flat, non-scary or eerie, and non interesting. 
This seems like it should be a Middle Grade or YA book, not an adult book. 

I read the manga in the back first which made me think the stories would be like that, but sadly they weren't. 

The Maga was very good though and makes me want to read more of Junji Ito's work~

While I think this book did what it intended to do, it could have been shorter and still gotten the point across. 

I liked the POV of this one and that the reader is essentially a character in the book themselves, however, I go bored about half way through. 

I get it, and the character was definitely written well, because I believe if they were a real person, I would have wanted them to stop speaking after day 2 as well lol; but I wish the book was shorter. After a while, it became repetitive and rambly. 

It would have been more impactful if it had been shorter because I would not have lost interest. 

DNF - This book is written in a style that   can't quite get in to. 

The pov seems strange, or maybe it's the way the thoughts and dialogue is written in the 3rd person pov that is throwing me off. 

Something about it is not quite catching my interest and is not written in a way that keeps in the storyline. 

On top of that "Black" was not capitalized when talking about a Black person.