coralinejones's Reviews (556)

and why isn't kevin in prison too?

Not my favorite. Despite this being a retelling of sorts, this had very, very little to do with the original fairytale which makes the cover a bit misleading? Honestly my wrongdoings for assuming based off cover and not taking the genre tags entirely serious. I figured a wolf would be a predominant character, and that possibly, we'd have some magical elements thrown in somewhere. But nope. This was just The Walking Dead Game but not as great, really. 

Red was insufferable and I didn't like her about halfway through reading. I found the "Before" timeline way more interesting than the "After", and I think starting with the After through me out of the immersion a bit because I knew her brother wasn't around. No spoilers. Just Meh. 

#Mommy_Issues. Look, I really enjoyed the beginning of this. I was enthralled. So much of it reminded me of one of my OC's. I was highlighting like crazy. Dark, disgusting, gritty, and lyrical! But when Eden was introduced I soon realized the story would dive to a place I didn't want it to. And it did. The middle dragged a bit but I found this all so interesting and horrific. I can't give it anything less than a 4.5.

Despite my knowledge on America's past with us black individuals, it never fails to make me sick to my stomach get to a harsh reminder. Such deplorable behavior. Can never wrap my mind around it. They'll never be enough education that'll help me understand how these people acted towards us, and itch to continue. Ugh. Richard Wright it's been a delight to read your story. Forever grateful black authors have and continue to share such accounts with us, regardless of how tough it is to read.

Enjoyed it more than the movie. Now that I've experienced both, I'm genuinely about why they made the changes they did; this is far superior in every way. I did not enjoy Mickey17 aside from Robert Pattinson. Surprisingly, this reads very similarly to The Martian. As an Andy Weir fan that may be why I liked this more than the film adaptation? Not sure.

Eh. If Mona Awad wrote books for boys

i'm sooo over these repulsive ass, "weird girl" lit books. i'm blaming ottessa moshfegh. they all wish they could write a repulsive, weird, unlikeable, unpleasant, multifaceted woman like gillian flynn can. they don't come close. these books are one in the same and i'm tired. this is gross. and i'm not talking about the taxidermy.

i can deal with taxidermy, i draw the line at the excessive, repetitive descriptions of body order and vomit and spittle with prior food mixed in and other bodily fluids, functions, and parts. OVER IT!!!

This book really pissed me off until the last 80% or so. It starts off with a bang, then goes nowhere for a majority of the book. I hated that so much of it was told through flashbacks and not present, in the moment, with the intruder. When things got good, it got real good, a little corny, but that's fine. But it shouldn't take the last 2 hours of the book to do that, in my opinion.

This slowly pissed me off. It started off strong and interesting and then the age-gap thing happened and I never recovered. Just annoyed and slightly grossed out since.