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shane_the_reading_rat's Reviews (1.21k)
this was a beautiful book. i’m not much of a novel-in-verse person generally, but i really tried to sit with this one and take my time and let it sink in, and that was definitely worth it.
i do think this got a bit off-track at the end (to me, this is due to adding a little too many perspectives and the writing losing a little strength), but the beginning and middle of this book are so, so, so good
i do think this got a bit off-track at the end (to me, this is due to adding a little too many perspectives and the writing losing a little strength), but the beginning and middle of this book are so, so, so good
i love sharks and this was awesome. true yippee moment
admittedly, i did not expect to like this much after reading/disliking Gwen and Art Are Not In Love, but i have been proven wrong!!
Baxter my darling i love you
the banter in this book was incredible, i love all the characters, and CLEM AND MARIEL!!! CLEM AND MARIEL!!! their romance was very very fun (and im typically quite picky about romances so that means a lot that i loved theirs so much)
Baxter my darling i love you
the banter in this book was incredible, i love all the characters, and CLEM AND MARIEL!!! CLEM AND MARIEL!!! their romance was very very fun (and im typically quite picky about romances so that means a lot that i loved theirs so much)
HELL YEAH OUYANG HELL YEAH ZHU I LOVE BOTH OF YOU YOURE TERRIBLE BUT I LOVE YOU KEEP DOING YOUR VILLAINOUS THINGS
i have so many thoughts on this book/this series overall but its such a confusing book i dont know how to properly explain my thoughts, so it’s bullet point time
- SEN!!!!!! i love him so much
- man if i thought the Dawnhounds was confusing i wasn’t ready at all for The Sunforge
- WORLDBUILDING i won’t get into spoilers but wow the worldbuilding goes incredibly hard in Sunforge (and in directions i never expected at all)
- this series is very very queer/trans and i love it dearly, Sunforge had less Pirate Time than Dawnhounds but i will forgive that
- i love how one minute youre so confused on what’s happening then the next minute you get a banger quote. Sascha Stronach writes such beautiful sentences oh my god
- i can definitely see how this series is not for everyone but IT IS VERY MUCH FOR ME
another book i love that is just straight up No Children by the Mountain Goats
i love that this book reveals that Jake will die on the first page, i think otherwise it wouldn’t be nearly as impactful.
i love this i love this i love this it’s a stellar coming-of-age narrative and it’s both incredibly sad but extremely funny in places (when Theron googled “best places LA reddit” to try and get Jake to visit?? bro i would do the exact same thing).
i love that this book reveals that Jake will die on the first page, i think otherwise it wouldn’t be nearly as impactful.
i love this i love this i love this it’s a stellar coming-of-age narrative and it’s both incredibly sad but extremely funny in places (when Theron googled “best places LA reddit” to try and get Jake to visit?? bro i would do the exact same thing).
But I knew it was better not to make public comparisons, even as a dumbo junior in college, when Lou and I sat on the stoop of her building and drank gin out of a plastic bottle until five in the morning, and I cried and came out to her, not as gay and not as bi but as confused and very tired.
im going to be soooo normal about this series (i will not be normal about it at all)
godddd this book was so sweet
once again, i love going back every once in a while and checking on middle grade. this is genuinely one of the best <3
once again, i love going back every once in a while and checking on middle grade. this is genuinely one of the best <3
the pacing of this book was really my only problem with it, the first half is just a constant loop of “Noemí wanders around the mansion/the town, Noemí has a creepy dream, Noemí wanders again” and i found it to be pretty repetitive. in the second half it gets super good though, i loved the entire ending segment (NOEMÍ, CATALINA AND FRANCIS GOING THROUGH THE TUNNEL TO THE MAUSOLEUM??? THE SUSPENSE WAS GREAT I LOVED IT OH MY GOD )
fun fun horror book i love the trend of nature horror
fun fun horror book i love the trend of nature horror
being sick and extremely fatigued for nearly a week has really given me a lot of time to read
i thought this was super interesting. i like how much humanity was in this book, not just dry medical writing (also, on the medical writing parts, it was described well enough for me to follow easily. which i definitely appreciate, my main knowledge of cells comes from my high school biology class so i was a tad worried that what this book discussed would be out of my depth, but i was proven wrong :) ).
the writing was a bit confusing in some places (i had to backtrack and reread a page over and over to realize that yes, Henrietta and Day married each other and were first cousins. it was glossed over so quickly that i just wasn’t sure and didn’t want to be confused for the rest of the book).
generally though, very approachable book about a piece of medical history :) would recommend it immensely.
i thought this was super interesting. i like how much humanity was in this book, not just dry medical writing (also, on the medical writing parts, it was described well enough for me to follow easily. which i definitely appreciate, my main knowledge of cells comes from my high school biology class so i was a tad worried that what this book discussed would be out of my depth, but i was proven wrong :) ).
the writing was a bit confusing in some places (i had to backtrack and reread a page over and over to realize that yes, Henrietta and Day married each other and were first cousins. it was glossed over so quickly that i just wasn’t sure and didn’t want to be confused for the rest of the book).
generally though, very approachable book about a piece of medical history :) would recommend it immensely.