hannahlberg's Reviews (73)

Gideon the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir

4.75

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

5.0

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

The Swimmers

Julie Otsuka

4.0

emotional funny sad medium-paced

Content Warnings

The Thursday Murder Club

Richard Osman

4.0

funny mysterious medium-paced

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Content Warnings

The Monster of Elendhaven

Jennifer Giesbrecht

3.75

be gay do murders?

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

4.0

dark slow-paced

Loveable characters: No

I hated this book. I hated it so much I loved it.

It took me 3 tries to actually start reading it, and even then I had to talk myself into finishing it, but also as soon as I got 30% in, there was no way I couldn’t not finish it.

I'm very glad I did finish as I feel I have climbed up a very impressive mountain.

The reason this book was so unbelievably difficult for me to sift through was because Richard and co are the most pretentious elitist d*ckwads I've ever willingly read about. and since he is the narrator, it's not like you ever escape the mindset for even a moment -

I think this rage I felt about the characters is both the reason why I kept wanting to dnf and had to force myself to finish and also the reason I HAD to finish, HAD to see it through.

If you ever were a part of a cohort in school, especially one in the arts, read this- it will give you war flashbacks.

Content Warnings