goatsrsexy's Reviews (604)

Okay this book is so great! And it's a debut by a Canadian author which we love!!

Julie and her twin, Chloe, were separated as young children after their parents died in a car crash. Julie went to live with her aunt while Chloe got adopted by an affluent white family. Julie grew up poor and feeling pretty unloved, and as a teenager she found Chloe on the internet because she'd become an influencer.

The sisters never really reconnect and Julie feels some bitterness towards Chloe, but when she gets a weird call from her sister she decides to go check on her and finds her dead body. Figuring all of Chloe's fame and money shouldn't go to waste, Julie makes a split decision to take her life and pretend to be her.... Shockingly she seems to pull it off, but there's something very strange and ominous going on with Chloe's group of influencer friends.

I really loved this book! It started off as an interesting story about influencer culture and slowly turned into a horror novel with hints of surrealism. Near the end of the book I was actually horrified and couldn't look away (in a good way). I would definitely recommend this book to most people and also, I kinda wanna see a movie of this lol.

Thank you to Simon and Schuster Canada for the advanced copy!

This was such a good book. Difficult to read at times but so compelling and well written. I loved all the different povs which made everyone feel more real and worthy of empathy, some of the chapters felt like in-universe short stories, and I love books that tell big stories through small stories, so that's something I loved.

Obviously the political commentary was very relevant and the footnotes added a lot of gut sinking feelings because they really helped to draw direct parallels between this dystopian world and our actual reality.

It's not easy to empathize with rapists and murderers, but it's valuable. Of course it's natural to want to distance ourselves from people who commit monstrous crimes, but they are still people and I will always believe that everyone should be treated with dignity and decency no matter what. I think this book did a really good job of making that point by giving us loveable characters who we don't want to love.

This is definitely my favourite read so far this year.

A strange and interesting book about a woman mourning the relationship she had with her father as a child, and dealing with his impending death. A lot of surrealism which I love, but I didn't really connect with this book. It was strange and funny and entertaining but ultimately it just didn't feel meant for me.

This book didn't do it for me. The banter felt strange and unrelatable and the MMC was super unattractive to me. I'm sure this book will be loved by many but it wasn't my piece of cake!

This was pretty fun and it was nice to read an Ali Hazelwood book that had an actual plot (no offense cus I like her other books too). I liked that it was single POV which is my preference. I skip sex scenes cus I'm a prude so it's great when romance books don't have too many that are important to the plot.

Fun world building and I love anything to do with the elemist but not a super entertaining plot for me

I can imagine this is a book people will love or hate. For me, it felt like it was written for someone with a brain just like mine.

I requested an arc of this book from Simon & Schuster Canada because the cover looked completely absurd. I'm the type of person who will always like a book with an absurd cover. It's really important to judge a book by its cover in this case because, tbh if you hate this cover you'll probably also hate the book.

The premise of this book- Reality Kahn is 23 and she's very strange. We're not 100% sure why she's so strange, although theories are alluded to. Anyways, Reality decides she needs a boyfriend. More importantly, she decides that she needs to be a girlfriend. Becoming the perfect girlfriend becomes Reality's mission, her quest. Shes very naive and very desperate to please and we see her go on a very strange journey to become her idea of the perfect girlfriend. Reading this book definitely gives you a sense of detachment from reality, especially as you get closer to the end.

Paradise Logic is completely absurd, surreal, hilarious, and also pretty dark. It definitely made me think a lot about my younger self, and even my current self. It's certainly a book that will stay with me. I read it in one sitting and had a great time doing so. The book had a very interesting way of mixing light silly fun with and underlying darkness and sadness. I really did see a lot of myself in Reality and I really hope she has a happy life.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what Sophie Kemp does next! Thank you to Simon & Schuster for the advanced copy of this book!

Idk the prose of this book was pretty nice and the premise was interesting but at 73% there's just nothing pulling me back. I'm bored and ready to move on. Nothing is really happening and the vibes aren't good enough to make up for that

Ugh this was so good I want the next one to be out already