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CAWPILE-
Characters: 4
Atmosphere: 7
Writing: 5
Plot: 5
Intrigue: 1
Logic: 5
Enjoyment: 3
Total: 4.29
Characters: 4
Atmosphere: 7
Writing: 5
Plot: 5
Intrigue: 1
Logic: 5
Enjoyment: 3
Total: 4.29
CAWPILE-
Characters: 9
Atmosphere: 10
Writing: 9
Plot: 10
Intrigue: 10
Logic: 8
Enjoyment: 10
Total: 9.43
thnx alex and art
Characters: 9
Atmosphere: 10
Writing: 9
Plot: 10
Intrigue: 10
Logic: 8
Enjoyment: 10
Total: 9.43
thnx alex and art
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This book is not dainty, or sweet, or soft. This book is about the feral energies all teen girls have to some degree. Add a little magic into the mix and you have Sideways Pike, Daisy, Jing and Yates. Sideways has been on her own most of her life, but the rest of the girls claim her as their own after a dramatic Halloween party.
I adored this book. It was so much fun to read. The girls felt real, their emotions felt like ones I’d had myself. The concept of feral but popular girls finding witchcraft and making their own coven was everything, but then you add queer representation to the mix? Hell yes. This was what I wanted “These Witches Don’t Burn” to be. Their stories were built well, as was the characters as a whole. The story building was subtle, but interwoven neatly.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of this book for an honest review.
“Fresh scapegracers, making their own little band. Doesn’t happen much anymore.”
“It’s a bit archaic, I know. Means you’ve escaped the grace of God. It was up there with rascal for a while. Implied a particularly nasty kid. I like it.”
This book is not dainty, or sweet, or soft. This book is about the feral energies all teen girls have to some degree. Add a little magic into the mix and you have Sideways Pike, Daisy, Jing and Yates. Sideways has been on her own most of her life, but the rest of the girls claim her as their own after a dramatic Halloween party.
I adored this book. It was so much fun to read. The girls felt real, their emotions felt like ones I’d had myself. The concept of feral but popular girls finding witchcraft and making their own coven was everything, but then you add queer representation to the mix? Hell yes. This was what I wanted “These Witches Don’t Burn” to be. Their stories were built well, as was the characters as a whole. The story building was subtle, but interwoven neatly.
“You girls freed me. You freed me and showed me your talent and cunning and curiosity, your marvelous disregard for authority, your relentless care for one another...”
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CAWPILE-
Characters: 8
Atmosphere: 8
Writing: 10
Plot: 9
Intrigue: 10
Logic: 9
Enjoyment: 10
Total: 9.14
've read plenty of celebrity memoirs, and I often find myself disappointed at how flat and surface-level they seem. "I'm Glad My Mom Died" does not do that. This book exceeded all my expectations. Jeanette McCurdy has managed to write one of the most compelling and emotional memoirs I've ever read. If I had not grown up watching iCarly and you had told me Jeanette was a writer before being an actor, I would fully believe that based on this alone. The perspective being written by Jeanette at whatever age she was retelling was a fascinating writing style, and it worked extremely well.
Some people may come to this book for "the tea", and I'd highly recommend that you don't do that. You won't find it here. Instead, you'll find an emotional story of parental abuse and some inclusion of how Hollywood isn't the place for children. There is a level of delicacy that this book uses when referring to how Jeanette may have felt *at the time* compared to how she feels or how she recognizes where those feelings came from and I think that that's done really well.
I cannot recommend this book enough, it is one of the best modern memoirs of our generation.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
CAWPILE-
Characters: 8
Atmosphere: 8
Writing: 10
Plot: 9
Intrigue: 10
Logic: 9
Enjoyment: 10
Total: 9.14
've read plenty of celebrity memoirs, and I often find myself disappointed at how flat and surface-level they seem. "I'm Glad My Mom Died" does not do that. This book exceeded all my expectations. Jeanette McCurdy has managed to write one of the most compelling and emotional memoirs I've ever read. If I had not grown up watching iCarly and you had told me Jeanette was a writer before being an actor, I would fully believe that based on this alone. The perspective being written by Jeanette at whatever age she was retelling was a fascinating writing style, and it worked extremely well.
Some people may come to this book for "the tea", and I'd highly recommend that you don't do that. You won't find it here. Instead, you'll find an emotional story of parental abuse and some inclusion of how Hollywood isn't the place for children. There is a level of delicacy that this book uses when referring to how Jeanette may have felt *at the time* compared to how she feels or how she recognizes where those feelings came from and I think that that's done really well.
I cannot recommend this book enough, it is one of the best modern memoirs of our generation.
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CAWPILE-
Characters: 9
Atmosphere: 10
Writing: 8
Plot: 7
Intrigue: 8
Logic: 5
Enjoyment: 9
Total: 8.00
I want to give a small precursor here that there should be absolutely massive trigger warnings for this book, and there were none in the advanced reader copy I received. While I have specific triggers that this did not hit, it may be beneficial for others to be aware before they pick this book up. With that being said, huge content and trigger warnings for sexual assault, sexual abuse, grooming, child sexual abuse, physical abuse, alcoholism, troubled teen industry mentions, and murder (okay, duh on that one).
Courtney Summers returns with another fantastic thriller. Summers is somehow capable of capturing the multifaceted aspects of teenage girlhood in all of her books, and "I'm The Girl" is no exception to this. Georgia is a frustrating main character, enraptured with the idea of a place rather than the truth of a place. She lives in a rural community that doesn't support her or gives her space to process trauma, and instead, hides things and blames girls for the things that happen to them.
This story is excellent, especially in that it's conceptually not the most unique. If you grew up in rural communities, you know this story or someone in your hometown knows this story. The golden, gleaming pinnacle of uniqueness comes from the Aspera aspect of it all. You are left wondering if it's truly a ticket out, or a death sentence after all. This was well written and very enjoyable, with complex characters and their needs.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
CAWPILE-
Characters: 9
Atmosphere: 10
Writing: 8
Plot: 7
Intrigue: 8
Logic: 5
Enjoyment: 9
Total: 8.00
I want to give a small precursor here that there should be absolutely massive trigger warnings for this book, and there were none in the advanced reader copy I received. While I have specific triggers that this did not hit, it may be beneficial for others to be aware before they pick this book up. With that being said, huge content and trigger warnings for sexual assault, sexual abuse, grooming, child sexual abuse, physical abuse, alcoholism, troubled teen industry mentions, and murder (okay, duh on that one).
Courtney Summers returns with another fantastic thriller. Summers is somehow capable of capturing the multifaceted aspects of teenage girlhood in all of her books, and "I'm The Girl" is no exception to this. Georgia is a frustrating main character, enraptured with the idea of a place rather than the truth of a place. She lives in a rural community that doesn't support her or gives her space to process trauma, and instead, hides things and blames girls for the things that happen to them.
This story is excellent, especially in that it's conceptually not the most unique. If you grew up in rural communities, you know this story or someone in your hometown knows this story. The golden, gleaming pinnacle of uniqueness comes from the Aspera aspect of it all. You are left wondering if it's truly a ticket out, or a death sentence after all. This was well written and very enjoyable, with complex characters and their needs.
CAWPILE-
Characters: 9
Atmosphere: 8
Writing: 8
Plot: 5
Intrigue: 6
Logic: 3
Enjoyment: 7
Total: 6.57
Characters: 9
Atmosphere: 8
Writing: 8
Plot: 5
Intrigue: 6
Logic: 3
Enjoyment: 7
Total: 6.57
CAWPILE-
Characters: 9
Atmosphere: 10
Writing: 10
Plot: 9
Intrigue: 9
Logic: 10
Enjoyment: 10
Total: 9.57
Characters: 9
Atmosphere: 10
Writing: 10
Plot: 9
Intrigue: 9
Logic: 10
Enjoyment: 10
Total: 9.57