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ellemaddy's Reviews (1.09k)
I tried. I really tried. I mean, so many people love Colleen Hoover but I just can't make myself to like her writing. I'm sorry, okay. It's just not my cup of tea.
Read December 1st 2015
Read August 8th 2016 (Audiobook)
It makes me so depressed thinking about small Harry living under that cupboard. How could the Dursley be so cruel to this little boy? Reading this book always makes me so angsty because I already know everything that's going to happen to him and I feel like a foreboding wise grandpa. Picture this: Me, reading in a rocking chair with this book in my hand, a cup of tea on the table next to me, my other hand stroking an invisible imaginary beard and I murmur to myself quietly as Harry got himself sorted into Gryffindor: "Ah yes, my child. Enjoy your happiness and innocence while you still can."
Read August 8th 2016 (Audiobook)
It makes me so depressed thinking about small Harry living under that cupboard. How could the Dursley be so cruel to this little boy? Reading this book always makes me so angsty because I already know everything that's going to happen to him and I feel like a foreboding wise grandpa. Picture this: Me, reading in a rocking chair with this book in my hand, a cup of tea on the table next to me, my other hand stroking an invisible imaginary beard and I murmur to myself quietly as Harry got himself sorted into Gryffindor: "Ah yes, my child. Enjoy your happiness and innocence while you still can."
Read December 1st 2015
Read August 8th 2016 (Audiobook)
Read August 8th 2016 (Audiobook)
The number of times i cried because of this book: about 100 times. I hated what Edy had to go through and I want to help her out by strangling this fictional asshole Kevin to death. Honestly, he can choke.
Okay what if zombies still have their conscience tho? it would make it way more awful to kill them because they're basically still themselves. This, to me, is a great concept & material for a zombie book.
Stephenie Meyer changed things up a bit in this book and I'm relieved she did because I absolutely cannot stand Bella and Edward being together for the entire book (that happens in Eclipse, and see what happens there).
They're just so mind-numbingly boring when they're together, I'm glad that their relationship always gets interrupted by something or someone.
The book started off with Bella's birthday (she hated it) and angst ensued.
Her fixation and codependency with the Cullens sadly got worse, we get a glimpse on their healthy relationship in which they're 100% ready to die for each other (good GOD the melodrama), then Edward left her because he's an evil, masochistic, abusive asshole who 'cares' too much about Bella's safety that he'd rather leave her. Bella got all mellow, sad, and depressed and then the delusions started. Bella acted like her entire world ended (maybe it wouldn't if you had a life in the first place), she acted like a complete asshole and ignored all of her basic ass human friends because who! cares! about! them! right! She became an adrenaline junkie (because that's the only way she could see Edward), and then she started being friends with Jacob.
Poor, poor Jake. Stephenie Meyer used him, abused him as a plot device, again and again, this dude simply exists to help the story move forward, sometimes in a very crude way too (see Breaking Dawn).
A lot of people complained about the lack of plot in this book and I must agree. But I don't know if I would complain about Bella x Jacob relationship. In this book at least, it's healthier than her relationship with Edward. He's just.. an easy person to like. He's not all angsty and brooding and sad (again, at least not in this book). One of his redeeming quality is that he is not Edward .
But of course, as he is merely a plot device, about 200 pages of the book where he was hanging out with Bella didn't matter because once Bella caught a whiff of Edward again, she immediately was like "Oh my God!!! Edward! I will go to him NOW!!! Right this instant!!!! Bye Jake!" Poor guy, he never stood a chance.
Some quotes that stunned me into silence from how bad they are:
"But how could you believe me? After all the thousand times I've told you I love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me?"
Manipulative much, Edward?
"Before you Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars- points of light and reason... and then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire, there was billiancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything."
*rolls eyes*
"It's not you, Bella," Edward said quietly. "Nobody hates you."
Well I DO, Edward.
The fact that this book has 500+ pages and 80% of it was just Bella mopping around and doing dangerous stuff out of heartbreak made the book torturous to get through, but it's still not as bad as Eclipse & Breaking Dawn (they're straight up nauseating.)
They're just so mind-numbingly boring when they're together, I'm glad that their relationship always gets interrupted by something or someone.
The book started off with Bella's birthday (she hated it) and angst ensued.
Her fixation and codependency with the Cullens sadly got worse, we get a glimpse on their healthy relationship in which they're 100% ready to die for each other (good GOD the melodrama), then Edward left her because he's an evil, masochistic, abusive asshole who 'cares' too much about Bella's safety that he'd rather leave her. Bella got all mellow, sad, and depressed and then the delusions started. Bella acted like her entire world ended (maybe it wouldn't if you had a life in the first place), she acted like a complete asshole and ignored all of her basic ass human friends because who! cares! about! them! right! She became an adrenaline junkie (because that's the only way she could see Edward), and then she started being friends with Jacob.
Poor, poor Jake. Stephenie Meyer used him, abused him as a plot device, again and again, this dude simply exists to help the story move forward, sometimes in a very crude way too (see Breaking Dawn).
A lot of people complained about the lack of plot in this book and I must agree. But I don't know if I would complain about Bella x Jacob relationship. In this book at least, it's healthier than her relationship with Edward. He's just.. an easy person to like. He's not all angsty and brooding and sad (again, at least not in this book). One of his redeeming quality is that he is not Edward .
But of course, as he is merely a plot device, about 200 pages of the book where he was hanging out with Bella didn't matter because once Bella caught a whiff of Edward again, she immediately was like "Oh my God!!! Edward! I will go to him NOW!!! Right this instant!!!! Bye Jake!" Poor guy, he never stood a chance.
Some quotes that stunned me into silence from how bad they are:
"But how could you believe me? After all the thousand times I've told you I love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me?"
Manipulative much, Edward?
"Before you Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars- points of light and reason... and then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire, there was billiancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything."
*rolls eyes*
"It's not you, Bella," Edward said quietly. "Nobody hates you."
Well I DO, Edward.
The fact that this book has 500+ pages and 80% of it was just Bella mopping around and doing dangerous stuff out of heartbreak made the book torturous to get through, but it's still not as bad as Eclipse & Breaking Dawn (they're straight up nauseating.)
DNF.
I cant. I cannot bring myself to go any further than this. This book left such a bitter taste in my mouth and i haven't even gotten to the worst part yet (i read some reviews, boy am i glad i decided to dnf it).
I had no idea what this book was about when i started reading it. If you know me i never actually read books' summary before i read them and this one wasn't an exception. I started to regret it the moment Kellen KISSED wavy IN THE MOUTH. No matter how he tried to justify it, she's still a minor, he's an adult. That shit's fucked up. I'm out.
For those who have finished it and rated it anything more than 1 star, I have a thought provoking question. Don't you think that this book romanticize pedophilia and it's just hidden in some good writing? Why do you find it 'good'?
I cant. I cannot bring myself to go any further than this. This book left such a bitter taste in my mouth and i haven't even gotten to the worst part yet (i read some reviews, boy am i glad i decided to dnf it).
I had no idea what this book was about when i started reading it. If you know me i never actually read books' summary before i read them and this one wasn't an exception. I started to regret it the moment Kellen KISSED wavy IN THE MOUTH. No matter how he tried to justify it, she's still a minor, he's an adult. That shit's fucked up. I'm out.
For those who have finished it and rated it anything more than 1 star, I have a thought provoking question. Don't you think that this book romanticize pedophilia and it's just hidden in some good writing? Why do you find it 'good'?
Docked one star from initial rating because I had some time to think about it last night and I felt like the “twist” near the end and how things were resolved is a little bit too underwhelming for me. In the end it was just like “oh.. that’s it?”. But overall I really liked the writing and the mood that the author set up throughout the book, it’s very gloomy and creepy!
