haha… no. This was just unnecessary. Why would she even want to marry someone she didn’t even love, just because she „can’t have the other brother“? And at 18, of all things!! 
I think my favourite character was the dog they had for two days. 

This one is quite hard to rate… is it a right wingers wet dream? Yes. Is it a really well developed story with (more or less) interesting characters and good world building? Also, yes. Even though I didn’t want to hear about the wrongly constructed Darwinism after the first few minutes…. :/

I mean, I already did not like the first book, but the second? So much worse! I can’t believe I even finished it, because… well, how do you write so many words to tell about a girl getting together with the brother of her „true love“ because said true love wasn’t exactly mentally stable after his mum died… wow 

tw: mentions of rape

Well, I’m not really sure how to rate this one… I quite liked the characters and the stories, even if it bordered on the whimsical and imaginary at times (like the hyper intelligent dog, the many coincidences between characters and especially the major plot points, etc), and the main character was feminist in the sense of the 21th century, which did throw me off a few times. Also, there is no intersectionality to the feminism of the main character, and her motto seems to be „tell women you’re proud of them and make their unpaid, invisible work (namely the house hold chores and child rearing) visible and tell them, that you’re proud of them doing it, and they’ll revolt and become suffragettes!“
The only really bad part would be the rape scenes, because the author gave the characters absolutely no reaction to that (apart from her crying once and being slightly disturbed while giving her police statement), and later even went as far as to make her pull out a kitchen knife when another male character tries to rape her (which leads to him immediately having a heart attack), all the while never letting Elizabeth have the room to acknowledge the trauma she suffered before, or working on said trauma, as if the rape made her a better, stronger women and wasn’t trauma at all, but simply something she needed to go through in order to become a feminist/independent woman. 
Apart from that, I think I liked it, even though the underlying plot is still about a man - her lover - and his long lost family. But hey, he was “one of the good ones”, to say it in the characters words…

A white man blackfaces for „science“ to „prove“ racism in the USA because asking actual black people is too easy… what a racist piece of shit

I have absolutely no idea what to think about this book… there were a few good thoughts and passages (and many of those came off as quite pretentious), but none of them were more than very simple mentions, only brushing the actual topic. Also, the sex scenes were not my thing. They generally felt weird, especially when paired with the pseudo-catholic thought experiments about Jesus. And since I’m not the biggest fan of smut, a book where there is about 50/50 sex scenes and actual story (if you could call it that) doesn’t work for me. All in all, simply not my kind of story :/