I couldn’t figure out if I cared enough about these idiot women to find out who was blackmailing them. Turns out I didn’t!

Seriously though these women are stupid I can’t

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I have a friend who has a rule: if the cover has a human on it (not drawn, but an actual photographed human) and the first word of the book is "I" she doesn't read it. The Sound actually fit both of these and I probably should have passed.
 
So here's the thing about The Sound. I wanted to give it a chance, and I really wanted to like it. But I couldn't.
 
The main character is a hot mess, she's annoying and a huge try hard. I actually checked multiple times that the author was actually British, because part of it felt really...fake to me. Ren felt very 2 dimensional, there wasn't any part of her that I could relate to and that made me sad.
 
I made it to my typical DNF point and was happy I was finally there. Things were starting? to maybe? pick up with this whole storyline with Jesse, but it wasn't enough and it wasn't thrilling like say Abigail Haas's "Dangerous Girls", and it really didn't fit the thriller motto. Jesse's story wasn't scary, the build up wasn't there to make me really curious of what was going on with him. He seemed fine, and I wasn't too concerned for her safety.
 
I can't give this one star, although I probably should. So it can have two. But here are some quotes that just show some of the ridiculousness:
 
"Still not my type, because he is, after all, still in possession of a penis. But hot nonetheless."

No she's not gay, just? not? interested? in penis? anymore? I don't know. This is unclear, and really weird. Apparently, she was just saying that she isn't interested in guys right now because she went through a hard breakup. At first I thought maybe she was coming out, but it was made evident she wasn't. I was actually intrigued at this point, but then...well stopped being intrigued when I realized she was just saying she wasn't interested in penis because of a bad breakup? I don't know.
 
‘Are she and Matt going out?’ ‘Going out?’ he asks, lifting his eyebrows at me. ‘Dating, you mean?’ I nod. ‘I guess you could call it that. They hook up every summer but it’s not like it’s Facebook official or anything.’

You see this a lot, where it's like Ren is from a different planet or something. She's not from another time, just from the UK. Yeah, the slang is slightly different, but I've never heard of there being this weird disconnect between Americans and Brits. In fact I know many Brits and it's never been stilted like this. Also, Americans know that Going out = Dating? I guess? Just weird.
 
There are also a ton of pop culture references in this book, that all also seem dated and strange and out of touch.
 
I'm not saying I won't read anything by Alderson, because I'll never say that, but I was disappointed with this.

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In this book, we meet John, who is actually an alien, and his keeper Henri. It turns out that there is a threat, and in order for all of these aliens to survive and continue the race, they have to be killed in a certain order which should be unknown. However it isn't unknown anymore, and John is number four. The first three aliens are dead, and now they are on the hunt for him.

I wanted to like this book. I really really did. The plot idea was amazing at first sight, seemed interesting, heard hype. But then the actual book. John was annoying, Sarah was THE WORST (I mean who just jumps on someone in the middle of a battle scene), and mostly predictable. I won’t read the rest of the series, but Henri was a badass, and now that I know James Frey wrote this book? Leaves a sour taste in my mouth. If you didn't know this, Full Fathom Five, the publishing company who publishes this series consistently rips off budding authors and forces them to output large amounts of books in the hopes of franchising them and finding the next Twilight. You can find more details on that here.

God Is Dead, Volume 1 I was hoping the reviews would be wrong, but they were oh so right. So right.
 
I really loved the concept of this series. I have a love for anything that involves the parthenon of gods and seeing how authors/writers create them in the modern day (or just in general). This fell really flat for me, felt really contrived and really just cheesy. Zeus comes down to the Vatican? (first of all why the Vatican and not in Greece??) and sees the painting of Adam and God and destroys it and decides to take over. Do we know why? No. It seems more of because they can. Maybe the characterization of the gods comes later but I didn't see any hint of that. I found it interesting that the Aztec gods killed the athiests first? and then people were lining up to be butchered? I don't know, this just fell flat in so many ways and when there's amazingness like The Wicked + The Divine out there...I couldn't get myself into it. Boo.