974 reviews by:

platypusinplaid

Filter

AUDREY'S ONE-SENTENCE BOOK REVIEWS

Clariel's villain origin story is that society wouldn't let her become a forest hermit without participating in capitalism and politics, which I understand completely because that's MY villain origin story too

AUDREY'S ONE-SENTENCE BOOK REVIEWS

If the detached, professorial tone of John Green's YA novels didn't work for you, then you should know that this style serves him PERFECTLY in his nonfiction

AUDREY’S ONE-SENTENCE BOOK REVIEWS

A narrative that follows multiple unrelated characters whose stories ultimately intertwine… The importance of passing down cultural mythology from one generation to the next… The endless cycle of life and death, of endings and new beginnings… Yeah I was about three quarters of the way into this book before I suddenly realized, I’m listening to a space opera adaptation of Into the Woods

AUDREY'S ONE-SENTENCE BOOK REVIEWS

as a wise twitter user once said, "everything is chess, except chess, which is sex"

AUDREY'S ONE-SENTENCE BOOK REVIEWS

that quote about how love mainly expresses itself as constant terror of "your heart walking around outside your body" is killing me (affectionate)

AUDREY'S ONE-SENTENCE BOOK REVIEWS

Most of this book is silly in a "romancing the emo teen werewolf who plays guitar and has opinions about various Rilke translations" way, but the last ten percent of the book gets exceptionally silly in a
Spoiler "stealing blood samples from hospital patients to deliberately infect werewolves with bacterial meningitis"
way and it made me wish the entire book was more like THAT

AUDREY’S ONE-SENTENCE BOOK REVIEWS

it’s a romance novel. it’s a murder mystery. it’s a Star Trek episode. it’s a heist movie. it’s a crash course on gay history in 1970s America. when I say this book has everything, I mean it.