iliyenzio's Reviews (462)

I finished this in New Hampshire. It was a very put-down, pick-up book until I finally just decided to sit down and read it. It's not that I didn't want to read it, it's just that I've been busy lately. The story was fantastic though and the magical realism was so strong. Myth in modern culture for sure.

Hands down, no argument, this was fantastic. This was one of my New Hampshire reads and I was so glad I finished it. Now I want a complete TV series with incredible acting, props, and CGI because I want to see all of this. The series is so much more important and better than any little movie they produced.

Again, love how it was given enough time to resolve. And, even then, the series finished in an unresolved way; the main plot was unresolved but the character development and romantic plot provided a natural and wonderful place to end.

Something that I particularly liked about this series was that it was given enough time to develop. I like that it didn't follow the regular trilogy format that other YA books usually follow. It was given the appropriate amount of time to built tension, develop characters, etc. I do dislike Raisa, in a way. Or rather, I think it's unrealistic how ignorant she is about her country and it's poltics. It takes me out of the book a bit when she mentions how little she knows about her queendom.

Again, pretty good world building and fairly reasonable romance. The series is fairly lighthearted and doesn't delve into subjects with too much seriousness.

I enjoyed this series in middle school, so I re-read it. It was pretty good and I liked the characters. The world building was interesting and this was one of the few YA series where I didn't find the romance annoying and pointless.

This was the last of my New Hampshire reads. While there were certainly places where I thought that the book could be shorter, I generally enjoyed this book. I particularly enjoyed the story within the story within the story aspect. The characters were certainly memorable and deeply flawed, which I enjoyed. 

Okay, so the issue here is totally mine. But my memory of the movie was completely overwriting my experience of the novel. So, I really just felt like I was listening to the movie, rather than reading the book. While it's always nice when a movie stays faithful to the book, here it backfired a bit for reading experience for me.

So, my family actually owns this book, which I only realized after I read the book (despite looking at our bookshelves for years). It was pretty good I guess. Nothing fantastic in particular for me. I wasn't really feeling horror, but mild psychological thriller? The dad was a great character but the main villain was very over-the-top and flat. So because of the main antagonist, I'm gonna rank this a little lower than I expected.

I love Christopher Moore and his books are really the only humor literature that I read. However, while I usually enjoy his absurdity, this was a little weird and not great. Reading the book flap was more enjoyable than anything in the entire book itself.