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coralinejones's Reviews (556)
I hate this. I hate the characters. I hate the way this is written. Everybody has the personality of an obnoxious 15 year old. The back and forth between timelines kills the momentum the current event gets. Almost halfway through and nothing creepy enough has happened. I'm just over it.
I DON'T KNOW WHO TO SLAP!
Oh, this book was so good and so much at the same time. Some moments really got under my skin and others made me want to tear up. And some parts reminded me of my own family? Which isn't necessarily a good thing but I digress? I was so into this novel I had to send a voice memo to my friend about it.
Immediately going into my "should be visual media" tag, because I can see this turned into a melodrama with Angela Bassett. Like. By tonight.
Oh, this book was so good and so much at the same time. Some moments really got under my skin and others made me want to tear up. And some parts reminded me of my own family? Which isn't necessarily a good thing but I digress? I was so into this novel I had to send a voice memo to my friend about it.
Immediately going into my "should be visual media" tag, because I can see this turned into a melodrama with Angela Bassett. Like. By tonight.
I had fun! There are some plot holes to be noted, but I can overlook some of the petty, tedious complaints to be made about Flight 171 because of my overall enjoyment. This novel had the same feel as teen horror film that you'd watch with a group of friends at a sleepover around Halloween. It reminded me a bit of Final Destination and some scenes from the movie Legion, IYKYK.
Not perfect, but not terrible.
5 stars because I had a blast and couldn't stop reading during the entire middle section. I don't want to spoil a thing but once some secrets start to unravel you won't be able to put it down. At least I hope!
Not perfect, but not terrible.
5 stars because I had a blast and couldn't stop reading during the entire middle section. I don't want to spoil a thing but once some secrets start to unravel you won't be able to put it down. At least I hope!
I'm sorry, Ms. Tina. I gave it my very best but I'm ultimately bored with this memoir. I don't think the writing style is for me in this cade. I've read a few memoirs that throughly entertained me, even through the hard to stomach bits. Tina's prose is as sultry and slow as the way she speaks and the Southern culture she comes from.
One thing's for certain, she undoubtedly sets the tone for future events in her life. She's always been who she was, even at a young age, and she makes that clear. What I did read was intriguing enough at some parts, I'm just not absorbed enough to slog through any longer.
One thing's for certain, she undoubtedly sets the tone for future events in her life. She's always been who she was, even at a young age, and she makes that clear. What I did read was intriguing enough at some parts, I'm just not absorbed enough to slog through any longer.
Yeah. I don't know what happened. I started to pick up on the twist and I didn't like where the book was heading. After a while I didn't even know what was going on and I didn't care to figure it out
I'm sorry I strongly disliked this. Objectively, this is a good book. Objectively, Jean can write. I was giving this book the benefit of the doubt for a while despite not entirely vibing with Jean's writing style personally. I can't exactly pin-point what felt off to me but the pacing and word choice wasn't up my ally, to say the least. Some parts of this story just dragged and felt like I was pulling teeth with at-home, rusty pliers to get through it. The premise is interesting enough so I figured I'd stick through it and see what the big twist is and I'm mad I did. Stupid ASF twist.
I can't displace my realistic expectations to a degree when it comes to mystery-thrillers, and maybe I've read too many in a short amount of time where I had to do that, but this was so entirely unrealistic to me... And the way these characters interacted with each other made me want to crawl out of my skin. I think the most realistic aspect of this novel was the detective being annoying as fuck towards Ellie. Or really, everybody being annoying as fuck towards Ellie.
This girl just went through all kinds of hell, making her relive her trauma ten fold, and your mad that she doesn't want to speak to you anymore? Your mad that she doesn't want to help you uncover the case? I GET IT, but the insensitivity was making me roll my eyes, LMAO.
Oh well.
I can't displace my realistic expectations to a degree when it comes to mystery-thrillers, and maybe I've read too many in a short amount of time where I had to do that, but this was so entirely unrealistic to me... And the way these characters interacted with each other made me want to crawl out of my skin. I think the most realistic aspect of this novel was the detective being annoying as fuck towards Ellie. Or really, everybody being annoying as fuck towards Ellie.
This girl just went through all kinds of hell, making her relive her trauma ten fold, and your mad that she doesn't want to speak to you anymore? Your mad that she doesn't want to help you uncover the case? I GET IT, but the insensitivity was making me roll my eyes, LMAO.
Oh well.
The "twist" was sooooooo obvious. So incredibly obvious. I don't think figuring out the story makes it bad, however, Berry made it so evident where the plot was going that it, admittedly, did ruin it a bit.