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I REFUSE TO BE TERRIFIED OF SPIRALS NOW, MARCUS SEDGWICK, REFUUUUUUUUUSE
Do you know what I draw all over my notes when I'm bored in class? GODDAMN SPIRALS. If I start seeing them everywhere, I'll know who to blame.
(also this was great.)
Do you know what I draw all over my notes when I'm bored in class? GODDAMN SPIRALS. If I start seeing them everywhere, I'll know who to blame.
(also this was great.)
More like 1.5 stars, but I couldn't quite go the full one star.
I read this simply because I love the TV series and wanted to see what the book was like, and to be fair, Lina warned me of how garbage this was. And maaaaaaannnnn, it sucked.
Too much romance, very little world building, useless plots (Glass? Who the hell care about Glass??), useless characters, and if Bellamy could stop comparing Earth to girls in weird ways (the breeze is like a girl's perfume when she stands close to you but won't look at you? WHAT??), that would be nice.
Also, Wells is the worst. I'm glad they changed that up in the series.
I read this simply because I love the TV series and wanted to see what the book was like, and to be fair, Lina warned me of how garbage this was. And maaaaaaannnnn, it sucked.
Too much romance, very little world building, useless plots (Glass? Who the hell care about Glass??), useless characters, and if Bellamy could stop comparing Earth to girls in weird ways (the breeze is like a girl's perfume when she stands close to you but won't look at you? WHAT??), that would be nice.
Also, Wells is the worst. I'm glad they changed that up in the series.
Nothing infuriates me more than a good bully novel, and yet I keep on reading them even though I should know better. (A well done bully novel has me so angry I want to shake the book itself, and so hurt for the characters that I want to hug it.)
I'm ultimately giving Hyacinth Girls 3.5 stars rounded down because while parts of it are beautiful, I've read this before. There are only so many ways a novel about teenage girls and the truly fucked up things that they can do to each other in adolescence, so the difference really comes down to the way the story is told and the writing.
Thanks to the Goodreads First Reads program for this one!
I'm ultimately giving Hyacinth Girls 3.5 stars rounded down because while parts of it are beautiful, I've read this before. There are only so many ways a novel about teenage girls and the truly fucked up things that they can do to each other in adolescence, so the difference really comes down to the way the story is told and the writing.
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Rebecca's view shows a guardian who, while she loves her child very much, is oblivious to what's truly going on underneath, leaving a sense of dread to creep up my spine as her story went on. Callie's view shows a girl slowly and quietly unraveling bit by bit, and while I think the journey was fantastic, the writing got a bit too much at times. Lots of Callie imagining herself turning into trees and disappearing and all that weird stuff that toes the line between lyrical and purple. Frankel toes that line very well.Thanks to the Goodreads First Reads program for this one!
I keep thinking about all the dumb things included in this book (especially things revolving around identities and the secretness of them) but I read this so quickly that I have to admit I enjoyed it.
