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How to Repair a Mechanical Heart by J.C. Lillis
4.0
THIS REVIEW IS IN FRENCH AND IN ENGLISH.
EN : My mechanical heart has been hugged and played with and I loved it.
Fanfics, conventions, fangirls(&boys), shipping fictional characters but also real people, and everything that follows ... That is basically what this story is about. And it's really good.
I liked seeing a more religious approach to how sexuality is felt, which I don't often read. The character's struggle, wanting to break free from what he has been told but still struggling himself with it. I also liked that asexuality was mentioned more than once, even if it was done quickly.
Although I would have loved to know more about other characters like Bec, I really enjoyed this book. It's a nice, fun, sweet and relatable.
Aaaw. Mon coeur mécanique a été roulé par terre et embrassé et j'ai adoré ça.
Les fanfics et les fangirls sur Internet qui 'ship' des personnages fictifs mais aussi de véritables êtres humains, et tout ce qui en découle ... Voilà la base de l'histoire. Et c'était vraiment sympa.
J'ai beaucoup apprécié le fait d'avoir abordé un point de vue plus religieux que je n'ai l'habitude de lire, la lutte du personnage principal qui ne veut plus croire en certains aspects religieux tout en sachant que son cœur ne s'en est pas totalement détaché.
J'ai également beaucoup apprécié voir le sujet de l'asexualité qui a été rapidement abordé par plusieurs personnages - parce que oui, pas tout le monde ne veut que du sexe à longueur de journée !
Bien que j'aurai aimé lire plus de détails sur d'autres personnages comme Bec, c'est une petite lecture sympa, drôle mais aussi remplie d'émotions, est très "relatable".
EN : My mechanical heart has been hugged and played with and I loved it.
Fanfics, conventions, fangirls(&boys), shipping fictional characters but also real people, and everything that follows ... That is basically what this story is about. And it's really good.
I liked seeing a more religious approach to how sexuality is felt, which I don't often read. The character's struggle, wanting to break free from what he has been told but still struggling himself with it. I also liked that asexuality was mentioned more than once, even if it was done quickly.
Although I would have loved to know more about other characters like Bec, I really enjoyed this book. It's a nice, fun, sweet and relatable.
Les fanfics et les fangirls sur Internet qui 'ship' des personnages fictifs mais aussi de véritables êtres humains, et tout ce qui en découle ... Voilà la base de l'histoire. Et c'était vraiment sympa.
J'ai beaucoup apprécié le fait d'avoir abordé un point de vue plus religieux que je n'ai l'habitude de lire, la lutte du personnage principal qui ne veut plus croire en certains aspects religieux tout en sachant que son cœur ne s'en est pas totalement détaché.
J'ai également beaucoup apprécié voir le sujet de l'asexualité qui a été rapidement abordé par plusieurs personnages - parce que oui, pas tout le monde ne veut que du sexe à longueur de journée !
Bien que j'aurai aimé lire plus de détails sur d'autres personnages comme Bec, c'est une petite lecture sympa, drôle mais aussi remplie d'émotions, est très "relatable".
Winter by Marissa Meyer
3.0
This was probably the book I struggled through the most, for two main reasons :
- It is a HUUUGE book ! My edition has 985 pages and it just felt unnecessarily long, some bits could easily have been skipped to make it less messy and to get to the point a little quicker.
- The two new-ish characters, I didn't actually like that much. And we see A LOT of Winter and Jacin in this book !
~ Also, so many comments about physical beauty that were meant to be inspiring, but I just found exasperating.
~ I must say, Scarlet (and Wolf) just seem to have been put aside once the second book was done, they could almost have been left out completely it would not have changed much, which is a shame as I liked Scarlet ... It just seemed like the author didn't know what to do with them after their main story in book 2.
+ Talking about liking characters, Kai is great ! LOVE him. I also think Cinder, Iko, Cress and Thorne are really good. Thumbs up for them.
However I still believe the Lunar Chronicles are fun books that I'm happy to have read. I love the idea of these books, I'm a sucker for loads of fairytales colliding into one world.
- It is a HUUUGE book ! My edition has 985 pages and it just felt unnecessarily long, some bits could easily have been skipped to make it less messy and to get to the point a little quicker.
- The two new-ish characters, I didn't actually like that much. And we see A LOT of Winter and Jacin in this book !
~ Also, so many comments about physical beauty that were meant to be inspiring, but I just found exasperating.
~ I must say, Scarlet (and Wolf) just seem to have been put aside once the second book was done, they could almost have been left out completely it would not have changed much, which is a shame as I liked Scarlet ... It just seemed like the author didn't know what to do with them after their main story in book 2.
+ Talking about liking characters, Kai is great ! LOVE him. I also think Cinder, Iko, Cress and Thorne are really good. Thumbs up for them.
However I still believe the Lunar Chronicles are fun books that I'm happy to have read. I love the idea of these books, I'm a sucker for loads of fairytales colliding into one world.
Evenfall: Volume 2: Director's Cut by Santino Hassell, Ais
4.0
3.5 - 4/ 5 - My feelings towards this book kept changing when reading it. I went from being angry at the characters, to loving them and the plot twists.
The story was pretty interesting, and action-packed although at times it felt very chopped (which is kinda normal since this is a director's cut).
I especially loved when they were in Mexico pretending to be 'normal people'. The whole discussions around struggling to function normally in our society really got to me. It's a little weird having so many 'relatable' aspects to characters who are essentially trained-lunatic-assassin and a suicidal new agent, but I do ...
I found myself being sucked into the story and I want to continue with the series but with a 1000 pages second book, I don't know whether I'll ever get through it completely ...
The story was pretty interesting, and action-packed although at times it felt very chopped (which is kinda normal since this is a director's cut).
I especially loved when they were in Mexico pretending to be 'normal people'. The whole discussions around struggling to function normally in our society really got to me. It's a little weird having so many 'relatable' aspects to characters who are essentially trained-lunatic-assassin and a suicidal new agent, but I do ...
I found myself being sucked into the story and I want to continue with the series but with a 1000 pages second book, I don't know whether I'll ever get through it completely ...
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
3.0
THIS REVIEW IS IN FRENCH AND IN ENGLISH.
EN : 3.5 / 5. This is what made me pick up this book: Magical Realism + ‘Beautiful writing’ + Beautiful cover. And Oh My Goodness this book truly was beautifully written. And I loved the magical realism aspects: from the winged girl to the prophesising almost-mute kid, without forgetting the ghosts at the end. However the first half took me ages to get through…
I understand how some people would love this book, hearing from so many different characters who all have had an impact on the Lavender family's life, it’s really quite beautiful, but sometimes I just really didn’t care as much as I should have.
The characters, I really liked. I got attached to quite a few, really quickly, but then we moved onto another person’s story as each character ends up dead or heart broken, which shocked me at first. I wasn’t expecting this book to be as dark as it was! And I’m not complaining, I do like dark stories at times, but I must admit I thought I was getting into a lovely beautiful story when in fact it was pretty sad. Beautifully written, but sad. So as I was saying, you feel for the characters, who are often such nice people, but to whom so many awful things have happened. As much as they are strange and beautiful, I wouldn’t want to be a part of the Lavender family.
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FR : 3.5 / 5/ Voilà ce qui m’avait fait acheter ce livre : “magical realism" + “c’est magnifiquement écrit” + la couverture est magnifique. Et waou, qu’est-ce qu’il est bel et bien magnifiquement écrit ! Et j’ai adoré les aspects de Magical Realism tels que la fille ailée, le garçon prophétique, sans oublier les spectres qui apparaissent vers la fin. Néanmoins je trouve que ce livre, surtout la première moitié, m’a pris trop longtemps à lire…
Je comprends pourquoi certaines personnes adoreraient leur lecture : lire à propos d’un grand nombre de personnages qui ont influencé la vie des Lavender, d’une façon si magnifique, et pourtant je n’ai pas réussi à m’y intéresser autant que j’aurai dû.
J’ai beaucoup aimé les personnages, auxquels je me suis attachée bien trop rapidement puisqu’on est rapidement passé à d’autres en les tuant ou en brisant leur cœur. Cela m’a choqué puisque je m’attendais à une jolie histoire, alors que celle-ci est loin d’être joyeuse. Je n’ai rien contre les histoires sombres, au contraire, mais celle-ci était simplement triste et donc pas particulièrement ce à quoi je m’attendais. Bien qu’ils fussent tous étranges et magnifiques, je ne voudrais pas faire partie de la famille Lavender.
EN : 3.5 / 5. This is what made me pick up this book: Magical Realism + ‘Beautiful writing’ + Beautiful cover. And Oh My Goodness this book truly was beautifully written. And I loved the magical realism aspects: from the winged girl to the prophesising almost-mute kid, without forgetting the ghosts at the end. However the first half took me ages to get through…
I understand how some people would love this book, hearing from so many different characters who all have had an impact on the Lavender family's life, it’s really quite beautiful, but sometimes I just really didn’t care as much as I should have.
The characters, I really liked. I got attached to quite a few, really quickly, but then we moved onto another person’s story as each character ends up dead or heart broken, which shocked me at first. I wasn’t expecting this book to be as dark as it was! And I’m not complaining, I do like dark stories at times, but I must admit I thought I was getting into a lovely beautiful story when in fact it was pretty sad. Beautifully written, but sad. So as I was saying, you feel for the characters, who are often such nice people, but to whom so many awful things have happened. As much as they are strange and beautiful, I wouldn’t want to be a part of the Lavender family.
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FR : 3.5 / 5/ Voilà ce qui m’avait fait acheter ce livre : “magical realism" + “c’est magnifiquement écrit” + la couverture est magnifique. Et waou, qu’est-ce qu’il est bel et bien magnifiquement écrit ! Et j’ai adoré les aspects de Magical Realism tels que la fille ailée, le garçon prophétique, sans oublier les spectres qui apparaissent vers la fin. Néanmoins je trouve que ce livre, surtout la première moitié, m’a pris trop longtemps à lire…
Je comprends pourquoi certaines personnes adoreraient leur lecture : lire à propos d’un grand nombre de personnages qui ont influencé la vie des Lavender, d’une façon si magnifique, et pourtant je n’ai pas réussi à m’y intéresser autant que j’aurai dû.
J’ai beaucoup aimé les personnages, auxquels je me suis attachée bien trop rapidement puisqu’on est rapidement passé à d’autres en les tuant ou en brisant leur cœur. Cela m’a choqué puisque je m’attendais à une jolie histoire, alors que celle-ci est loin d’être joyeuse. Je n’ai rien contre les histoires sombres, au contraire, mais celle-ci était simplement triste et donc pas particulièrement ce à quoi je m’attendais. Bien qu’ils fussent tous étranges et magnifiques, je ne voudrais pas faire partie de la famille Lavender.