coralinejones's Reviews (556)

He loves his son so much it makes me emotional.

My mistake, I vastly mistook what this novel was going to be. I thought this was going to be commentary on what it was like to be a millennial and that only, not meandering paragraphs about the author's personal life. This is more a memoir and a personal remembrance piece than it is any sort of "essay" about what life was like back then. It starts off that way, kind of, but then she starts talking about being a mother and liking pumpkin spice lattes or whatever and she lost me completely. I don't think I'm old enough to be considered a millennial, but I'm old enough to relate to (or remember; experience) many of the pop culture moments from that time period. I watched a lot of reruns and listened to all the songs they did with my mother. That said, perhaps I'm too young for this novel. I mean, I don't really dress like this age group nor was I partying in college in 2005 so... Guess I can't relate.

Overwhelmingly disappointing. I've been hearing that this book wasn't great and unfortunately everyone is correct. Ophelia is obnoxious; completely naive and not good at her job. She's not a character that's enjoyable to read about for 300 something pages. Everyone else is not interesting enough to care about. The story itself is extremely slow-burn and unnecessary. By the time anything exciting happens I don't care anymore and just wanted them all to die to get this over with. I feel like this book would've done best as a novella or perhaps adapted into a sci-fi horror movie. Maybe some visuals would make this worth getting through.

Meh. Don't crucify me. I expected more. I never automatically label classics as boring, but this one? Rather boring. I did enjoy the writing style, but at the same time, you can tell this was written by a white man. Like wow. I also feel lied to about this being about lesbian vampires. I mean yes. But no? Kind of? For the time, I suppose. But also... Nah.

“Then [Mademoiselle] described a hideous black woman, with a sort of colored turban on her head-" Hated this as well. Knocked a star off for that alone.

Very short book that lacks the charm "The Outsiders" has. Feels like it's set in the same exact universe, as expected from S.E. Hinton's work. They're all quite similar from one another. And it doesn't help that Matt Dillon is in both adaptations of her books playing damn near the same character. I mention this because I actually watched Rumble Fish during my Outsiders phase in middle school and knew I wanted to read the book eventually. Took forever but I finally got here and I can't help but question the overall point of the book. I didn't really like or care about these characters in comparison to how Hinton got me to care about the ones in The Outsiders; we also don't spend enough time with them to feel any real emotion for them in my opinion.

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points of reference:
⋆  horror
⋆  small town gothic
⋆  found family
⋆  lgbt and kids of color

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this book is cute. obviously i'm not the target audience for this type of literature but it does have many literary elements i tend to gravitate towards, so i figured why not give it a chance? i'm glad i did, but i also wish i spent my time reading something else entirely.

this isn't bad per say, just exceptionally slow. i didn't feel anything for any of the characters (and there's many to keep track of) and didn't necessarily care for the timeline jumps, the plot itself, and the frequent change of perspective that kept tugging me throughout the story. the chapters are scant so it's not much of a drag to get through, butt personally i'm getting tired of multiple perspective stories. this has nothing to do with the author in particular, it's just not my style at this current point.

i thought there were good discussions being made. like how certain characters felt about being homeless or how they felt about their gender identity, which is nice for kids who may pick this book up and struggle with similar aspects of their life. this novel is quite atmospheric and could make for good tv or film if picked up by the right hands.

some parts were "spooky" but nothing too chilling. i didn't expect this to be all that scary but i thought the author would amp up the horror parts a bit more.

i did love the small town feel and how sometimes it's more about community and figuring things out amongst the people you trust rather than waiting for anyone of authority to give a fuck. nice messaging imo. 

Anne Rice, you're a freak.

Art was cute. The depictions of Claudia's relationship with everyone felt rushed, but what can you do within 200 something pages... Maybe I'm too into the show for any book-canon portrayals of these characters. I love them dearly but any time I pick up what Anne Rice intended my stomach hurts. 

If you're unfamiliar with the original book (as I am), the original movie, or the TV show I don't recommend this. I think you'd be a little lost. This is like an illustrated wiki article. 

i want to absolutely love this. the concept is everything i could ask for and everything i'm obsessed with. of course i'd be the target demographic for a novel like this. you'd understand completely if you saw my tumblr blog. even bringing up tumblr is like... come on. however this is very pretentious and hard to read. i'm not against poetry or anything but trying to get through this right now is giving me a headache. it's equally beautiful and too much at the same time.

Despite her PTSD, Pip acted super out of character and that bothered me.

Ravi deserved the world.

Many of Pip's actions did not make sense in this book.

I hated the ending.

I was on the edge of my seat once again but I enjoyed this less than the other two books.

I hated the way this ended.

way worse than i could've imagined