saint_eleanor's Reviews (295)

This was really beautiful and poetic but maybe just  not what I expected, I was hoping for maybe a little bit more of a concrete mystery

my heart is frickin broken. This is perfect for me bc i love cormac mccarthy’s plots but find him slightly irritating. The art is impeccable.

The writing style of this was really cool, like 'Beloved' meets 'a Certain Hunger' meets 'Bless the daughter raised by a voice in her head' (i.e. lots of the royal "we" , lots of lust, and all the prose) . I loved listening to it on tape so i could hear the Igbo read by the author and the pronunciation of stuff, Igbo is so beautiful to listen to! But I feel like i had known that this was autobiographical before i read it i would have liked it more, but i was definitely expecting a novel so it definitely felt really slow. 

Super interesting writing style and I'm not sure i LOVED it especially towards the end but it was so unique that i feel like i want to recommend it to people. The perspective from the young child was so accurate it kind of freaked me out loll and all the extra details just made it super Meta or something it was very fun. It kind of gave me both AHS Ragnarok plus a more avant-garde film vibe lol

I definitely really enjoyed this but I think reading it so close to 'Nightbitch' made me feel like it was kind of unoriginal? Or idk i feel like i've seen this exact plot in like 3 books this year.  I feel like none of the characters were very complex besides our MC. Kind of all stereotypes. I did absolutely love the main character and her inner thoughts and i loved the witchiness. Super fun to read, for sure and good for Halloween time! Loved the ending especially.

This book is pain and suffering. I hate men. I hate capitalism. I hate that is a true story. Hanya Yanigahara is one of the best authors in the world. 

Definitely going to re-read this I loved it so much! I think I'm going through a prose phase because this  was extremely metaphorical and very abstract. 

The stories really sent shivers down my spine it wasn't what I expecting at all out of this series. Hella bomb 

I liked this a lot but it was not my favorite. I liked the moral complexity it all but the plot was structured kinda weird imo, I didn't feel super attached to any of the characters. Whereas in Strange Bird i literally cried over a lab experiment the whole time. 

Honestly this wasn’t my favorite book ever but i can tell its a really good book if that makes sense? I thi nk that if i knew more about basketball i would love it, and the writing was phenomenal but i think the prose fell a tiny bit flat for me. I do think that Abdurraqib is an amazing writer and it definitely made me want to read his other work. 

Mixed feelings, need to marinate