coralinejones's Reviews (556)

This is the most important book I've read all year.

This book was corny as hell. Some parts were cozy and enjoyable to read; I heavily enjoyed the description of their apartment, and I loved how atmospheric the author made New York City feel. Though, I don't think that's very hard considering... But the rest of it fell flat to me. The idea behind the subway was cool (and all that comes with that) but ended up being repetitive and hard to read after a while (The sex... Jesus. I hated it). There was just too many words. Too many side plots, cringe ass dialogue, white woman humor; I found myself caring less and less about Jane and August's relationship after they slowly got together, which is wild, since the entire book revolves around just that. The plot twist was interesting and unexpected, but again, once we really got into that whole plot line I didn't care so much, I was just waiting for it to be wrapped up.

Definitely a lot better when it was just a found-family, learning-to-love-yourself, learning-how-to-make-friends-in-your-early-20s type of book. I almost wish the entire novel was about Myla and Niko instead of August and Jane, lmao. But, you know, I'm not really into Romance or New Age Adult Fiction or Contemporary fiction to begin with. Eh.

Also some parts were really tone deaf. But I'll give the author some points as you can tell they did their best to research the diversity they included. They did an earnest job at trying to be inclusive and accurate about it but, as someone whose apart of these spaces (Gay, black, trans, even astrology alike) I was really rolling my eyes at certain points. Like ohhhhhhhhhhh brotherrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Not as good as A Song Of Achilles but still beautifully written. Some parts were more intriguing than others.

i'm sorry i was bored

Poor Giovanni...

Hated it compared to A Game Of Thrones. It wasn't the worst read of my life. It actually picked up towards the end with Sansa and Jon.

Please don't look at me or speak to me for at least a month.

.................................... Okay!

I don't understand what just happened. Every time I thought I did, the plot shifted and Samantha went through another episode of insanity. Anything I could say would be saying too much and I think you need to enter this with all little information as possible; you can easily assume this book one thing when it's completely and utterly something else. 

When y'all said this book was bizarre, you meant it. When you said it reminded you of "The Secret History"... You lost me. Entirely. This book really reminded me the most of Heathers, and at times Mean Girls, sometimes The Craft?

Additionally, Awad can get very redundant with certain words, especially in the beginning of the book. Also her descriptions don't make a lot of sense? I think she tries really hard to sound poetic and profound, but doesn't harbor the skill to do it well. Her writing isn't necessarily bad but I've read better. A lot of times it came off corny... And don't get me started on how Jonah talked. I can't tell if that was intentional or not. 

I mean... I'd read it again, I wouldn't recommend this to anybody.