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rebeisstrange
(*my overall rating is a 2.8)
Guts was an interestingly confusing story. i didn’t really understand the plot? if that makes sense.
it was just weird, how Raina’s stomach hurt all the time and she constantly felt like throwing up. and the reason why got explained until the very end, where it just ended up being forgotten. that’s it.
it was a quick, fun, and easy read, but not something good enough to merit a full three stars
-rebe
Guts was an interestingly confusing story. i didn’t really understand the plot? if that makes sense.
it was just weird, how Raina’s stomach hurt all the time and she constantly felt like throwing up. and the reason why got explained until the very end, where it just ended up being forgotten. that’s it.
it was a quick, fun, and easy read, but not something good enough to merit a full three stars
-rebe
(*my overall rating is a 3.0)
ahhh CEO of writing book reviews like a month after i read them.
anywho, The Heartbreakers is a book about a girl who falls in love with the lead singer of a band who she “hates”.
alright, lets start.
so, right of the bat i wasn’t a big fan of our main character, Stella. she was rude and snarky but i kinda...liked that? don’t get me wrong, i love being in love with the main character but sometimes i also like having an unlikeable main character.
Stella’s brother and sister (Cara and Drew) were great as well. i felt the love they had for Stella but i personally think that they were extremely overlooked? they felt more like background characters that only contributed to the main romance. like, Cara’s cancer was the one thing that was used to bring Stella and Oliver together.
in fact, now that i think about it, everything in this story—all the characters, events, etc—were used to either create drama or bring together Oliver and Stella.
like JJ’s sexual jokes were inky there to make Oliver jEaLoUs.
aside from Oliver, i adored the rest of the band members JJ was the cutest and Alec made my heart so soft.
the romantics gestures that Oliver did for Stella were beautiful. i truly think that Oliver was in love in Stella, but i personally don’t think that Stella was in love with Oliver.
sorry not sorry.
oh, and one more thing, how the hell could you be rude enough to straight up tell four musicians who work extremely hard day and night on their music that their band is trash and their music sucks? that’s such an asshole move.
-rebe
ahhh CEO of writing book reviews like a month after i read them.
anywho, The Heartbreakers is a book about a girl who falls in love with the lead singer of a band who she “hates”.
alright, lets start.
so, right of the bat i wasn’t a big fan of our main character, Stella. she was rude and snarky but i kinda...liked that? don’t get me wrong, i love being in love with the main character but sometimes i also like having an unlikeable main character.
Stella’s brother and sister (Cara and Drew) were great as well. i felt the love they had for Stella but i personally think that they were extremely overlooked? they felt more like background characters that only contributed to the main romance. like, Cara’s cancer was the one thing that was used to bring Stella and Oliver together.
in fact, now that i think about it, everything in this story—all the characters, events, etc—were used to either create drama or bring together Oliver and Stella.
like JJ’s sexual jokes were inky there to make Oliver jEaLoUs.
aside from Oliver, i adored the rest of the band members JJ was the cutest and Alec made my heart so soft.
the romantics gestures that Oliver did for Stella were beautiful. i truly think that Oliver was in love in Stella, but i personally don’t think that Stella was in love with Oliver.
sorry not sorry.
oh, and one more thing, how the hell could you be rude enough to straight up tell four musicians who work extremely hard day and night on their music that their band is trash and their music sucks? that’s such an asshole move.
-rebe
read this and OF COURSE lived it! heartstopper practically owns me by now.
(*my overall rating is a 2.0)
i don’t really know what to say about this book. i read it a few months ago, and i can barely recall anything.
the writing was bad, the story dragged, there was practically no plot line, and the characters were very 2-D.
also, im very confused with the twist at the end?
it was ok.
i don’t really know what to say about this book. i read it a few months ago, and i can barely recall anything.
the writing was bad, the story dragged, there was practically no plot line, and the characters were very 2-D.
also, im very confused with the twist at the end?
it was ok.
(*my overall rating is a 3.0)
this poetry book was...mediocre?
let's begin.
one day i was cruising through the poetry shelves at my local Barns & Noble when i saw this book on the shelves. it was on clearance, and for seven dollars too, so i just picked it up and took it home with me. it also had one of those obnoxious stickers and my book still has residue to this day.
anywho, i read this book the day i bought it. and it was interesting to say the least.
the book wasn't bad, but it wasn't necessarily good. it was just ok. the 'poems' just felt like notes or heartfelt stories that the two authors wrote in their spare time. all of the poems felt like the same thing over and over again. they sounded like pep-talks kind of?
anyway, it was an ok book. if your interested, go ahead. if your not, don't waste your time.
-maya
this poetry book was...mediocre?
let's begin.
one day i was cruising through the poetry shelves at my local Barns & Noble when i saw this book on the shelves. it was on clearance, and for seven dollars too, so i just picked it up and took it home with me. it also had one of those obnoxious stickers and my book still has residue to this day.
anywho, i read this book the day i bought it. and it was interesting to say the least.
the book wasn't bad, but it wasn't necessarily good. it was just ok. the 'poems' just felt like notes or heartfelt stories that the two authors wrote in their spare time. all of the poems felt like the same thing over and over again. they sounded like pep-talks kind of?
anyway, it was an ok book. if your interested, go ahead. if your not, don't waste your time.
-maya
a simple story that’s pretty generic. the only thing that made me not like this story was that it was so descriptive.
no, i don’t need to know the width and the height of the wall in great detail.
-rebe
no, i don’t need to know the width and the height of the wall in great detail.
-rebe
(*my overall rating is a 2.4)
This Is Where It Ends personally felt offensive to me?
let me explain.
so, this story takes place over the span of an hour (???) at a school shooting. it is told in the perspective of four characters, two inside the shooting, one outside, and one attempting to get in.
the first issue i came across in this story is the four perspectives themselves. it was too many stories to follow. one minute we were inside the shoot with Autumn, and then we flashback to a few months ago, then we go to Sylv who's on the other side of the gym, then we're with Thomas finding a dead corpse, then we're with Claire and then another flashback. it was just too much for me to handle in the story, especially with the topic this book is dealing with.
a lot of things that i know would trigger some readers (abuse, death of a loved one due to car accidents, school shootings, etc) were handled very poorly in this story. it felt like Autumn's abuse, Sylv's (or was it Thomas's?) death, and Tyler's death were merely there to add drama to the already bad book.
Nijkamp's plot and idea is great, but the execution is poor. i feel like if Nijkamp would've spent more time on this story, it would've come out better.
-rebe
This Is Where It Ends personally felt offensive to me?
let me explain.
so, this story takes place over the span of an hour (???) at a school shooting. it is told in the perspective of four characters, two inside the shooting, one outside, and one attempting to get in.
the first issue i came across in this story is the four perspectives themselves. it was too many stories to follow. one minute we were inside the shoot with Autumn, and then we flashback to a few months ago, then we go to Sylv who's on the other side of the gym, then we're with Thomas finding a dead corpse, then we're with Claire and then another flashback. it was just too much for me to handle in the story, especially with the topic this book is dealing with.
a lot of things that i know would trigger some readers (abuse, death of a loved one due to car accidents, school shootings, etc) were handled very poorly in this story. it felt like Autumn's abuse, Sylv's (or was it Thomas's?) death, and Tyler's death were merely there to add drama to the already bad book.
Nijkamp's plot and idea is great, but the execution is poor. i feel like if Nijkamp would've spent more time on this story, it would've come out better.
-rebe
(*my overall rating is a 4.2)
hello and welcome to the very scattered reviews by moi! today imma be finally reviewing Field Notes On Love, a book about two strangers who end up taking a train ride across America.
so let’s begin with the things in this book that i enjoyed!
i really enjoyed the writing style in this story. it read easily but was still pretty descriptive of the things around Mae and Hugo. it found a beautiful way to give you wonderful visuals without spending pages and pages. the story managed to paint a picture in my mind.
the mellowness of the story was also great. it was a very character driven story, which i came to find out that i didn’t really mind that. i really liked the ideas behind Mae and Hugo.
speaking of characters, Mae and Hugo were wonderful. they were two very fleshed our characters with their own lives and their own little quirks. the characters in this story were all very and fully fleshed out. Hugo’s siblings and his parents: amazing. i loved all six of the kids. especially Alice. i also really adored Mae’s dads and her Nana.
the open ending of the story was one thing that i really REALLY liked. we really got a happy ending, something we wanted, while still getting to construct and debate our own ending in our minds. maybe Mae did this, maybe Hugo did that. we’ll never know, will we?
the only issue i have with this story was one part that kind of dragged? the part where they were on the train just headed to LA. it dragged a...a bit.
all in all this story was, like, 10x better than E. Smith’s other novel, Windfall.
-maya <3
hello and welcome to the very scattered reviews by moi! today imma be finally reviewing Field Notes On Love, a book about two strangers who end up taking a train ride across America.
so let’s begin with the things in this book that i enjoyed!
i really enjoyed the writing style in this story. it read easily but was still pretty descriptive of the things around Mae and Hugo. it found a beautiful way to give you wonderful visuals without spending pages and pages. the story managed to paint a picture in my mind.
the mellowness of the story was also great. it was a very character driven story, which i came to find out that i didn’t really mind that. i really liked the ideas behind Mae and Hugo.
speaking of characters, Mae and Hugo were wonderful. they were two very fleshed our characters with their own lives and their own little quirks. the characters in this story were all very and fully fleshed out. Hugo’s siblings and his parents: amazing. i loved all six of the kids. especially Alice. i also really adored Mae’s dads and her Nana.
the open ending of the story was one thing that i really REALLY liked. we really got a happy ending, something we wanted, while still getting to construct and debate our own ending in our minds. maybe Mae did this, maybe Hugo did that. we’ll never know, will we?
the only issue i have with this story was one part that kind of dragged? the part where they were on the train just headed to LA. it dragged a...a bit.
all in all this story was, like, 10x better than E. Smith’s other novel, Windfall.
-maya <3
a cute collection of stories that just make me want to move to New York even more. it really shows people’s lives :)
(*my overall rating is a 3.0)
another kasie west book, another three stars.
i’m beginning to find that kasie west write decent romances. not really the best but also not the worst. they’re just *shrug* okay.
i’m also starting to notice a pattern in each of her stories. either her characters have some sort of sad backstory (this one being that the girl’s father left her and she’s poor as frick). they always have some sort of family problems like that. and (most of the time) they at first don’t like the guy but then end up with them.
i mean, come on. Maybe This Time? main character hates the guy because he’s a spoiled rich boy. Fill-In Boyfriend? doesn’t hate the dude but also doesn’t like it. P.S I Like You? she hates the guy. this one? omg, PLOT TWIST, she hates the guy.
it’s very repetitive, so i hope that in future books by this author she won’t have the same tropes and stuff.
anyway, i’m getting off topic. back to TDBU.
so. i actually quite liked the main character, despite the fact i can’t quite remember her name. she was witty and some-what funny, which i enjoyed. she wasn’t like kasie west’s other main characters, so there’s that. i liked how she sealed with her problems and how she acted towards people. she was a genuinely decent person, which was good.
xander, on the other hand (i can actually remember his name haha), was not my favorite. i don’t even know how main character, which i’m going to shorten to mc, fell for him. Xander was weird and selfish, and it’s actually so unsanitary that he took a sip of her hot chocolate or whatever drink she had before she would drink it. i don’t know if west thought that would be romantic, but it’s not. it’s the way to spread corona. xander was also trying to “stick it to his dad”, but even after the 271 pages, i still don’t understand why. he makes it seem like his father was horrible, but i couldn’t find the horribleness that xander was talking about.
also the doll store just freaked me out. the image i made in my head of that store literally comes straight out of an Annabelle movie. nope nope nope.
there were also just a lot of loose end that needed to be made neat. in other words, way to many random subplots. what happened with this matthew guy? who the heck was he? what about the career days? those just disappeared. and mc’s mom in the hospital? why? what? i’m confused? also, mc’s grandparents are rich? what?
yeah. too many subplots in my opinion.
all in all it was an ok book, and it didn’t take a long time for me to read. i will continue to read kasie west, since my sister owns almost all of her books, so expect a few more of these to come.
-rebe <3
another kasie west book, another three stars.
i’m beginning to find that kasie west write decent romances. not really the best but also not the worst. they’re just *shrug* okay.
i’m also starting to notice a pattern in each of her stories. either her characters have some sort of sad backstory (this one being that the girl’s father left her and she’s poor as frick). they always have some sort of family problems like that. and (most of the time) they at first don’t like the guy but then end up with them.
i mean, come on. Maybe This Time? main character hates the guy because he’s a spoiled rich boy. Fill-In Boyfriend? doesn’t hate the dude but also doesn’t like it. P.S I Like You? she hates the guy. this one? omg, PLOT TWIST, she hates the guy.
it’s very repetitive, so i hope that in future books by this author she won’t have the same tropes and stuff.
anyway, i’m getting off topic. back to TDBU.
so. i actually quite liked the main character, despite the fact i can’t quite remember her name. she was witty and some-what funny, which i enjoyed. she wasn’t like kasie west’s other main characters, so there’s that. i liked how she sealed with her problems and how she acted towards people. she was a genuinely decent person, which was good.
xander, on the other hand (i can actually remember his name haha), was not my favorite. i don’t even know how main character, which i’m going to shorten to mc, fell for him. Xander was weird and selfish, and it’s actually so unsanitary that he took a sip of her hot chocolate or whatever drink she had before she would drink it. i don’t know if west thought that would be romantic, but it’s not. it’s the way to spread corona. xander was also trying to “stick it to his dad”, but even after the 271 pages, i still don’t understand why. he makes it seem like his father was horrible, but i couldn’t find the horribleness that xander was talking about.
also the doll store just freaked me out. the image i made in my head of that store literally comes straight out of an Annabelle movie. nope nope nope.
there were also just a lot of loose end that needed to be made neat. in other words, way to many random subplots. what happened with this matthew guy? who the heck was he? what about the career days? those just disappeared. and mc’s mom in the hospital? why? what? i’m confused? also, mc’s grandparents are rich? what?
yeah. too many subplots in my opinion.
all in all it was an ok book, and it didn’t take a long time for me to read. i will continue to read kasie west, since my sister owns almost all of her books, so expect a few more of these to come.
-rebe <3