This was a beautiful look into life in a war zone. I haven’t read much about the siege on Sarajevo but I found this very insightful and I’m starting to change my mind about small life books during big historical events. I understand that this was from the perspective of someone who didn’t know much about the war but I wish I had been told more about it. All in all though, it was highly enjoyable in a heartbreaking way.

I feel like the premise was so good but ultimately the execution fell flat. Books cant be carried by vibes alone and that what this felt like. I disliked the romance that felt haphazardly thrown in. I hated how the fmc defended not going to the police as soon as she saw her former teacher with a high school girl. The first big plot twist was too heavily foreshadowed and the second twist didn’t make sense in the story, almost like the author knew that ppl would guess the first and just needed something to confuse readers. Also I hate when antagonists explain every detail of their evil plan, it’s annoying as hell and feels like the author doesn’t trust the reader to understand the motivations of the antagonists.

I think this was an extremely well done translation. The story didn’t have any weird sentence structure or word choices, everything fit very well. Now for the actual story. I loved all of the mentions to literature, 1984, Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio. I liked the idea that the govt banned anything that suggested imagination including children’s books. It very much reflected what is currently happening in the US. The govt bans books with “profane material” while the ppl making the laws consume that same material. I very much enjoyed the ending as well, was the book censor just a character in a book? Or was he and everyone else real the whole time?

I like purple prose but everyone has a line. I also don’t mind heightened vocabulary but this was like someone gave a seven year old a dictionary and left them to it. I wish this was longer and drawn out, the story had good bones but I felt like it was lacking something that made me feel immersed and wanting more.

An entertaining ride but there were multiple plot holes, no resolution for multiple plot lines, and the worst part was the supernaturalification of DiD which irritated the shit out of me. Of course all the antagonists were able to mentally connect and see what the others were doing bc one person had DiD. It didn’t make sense.

Going blind into books seems to be my downfall. I didn’t enjoy the plot at all, which followed a self absorbed, pretentious “former gifted child” who was going to university years after everyone in his age group on a quest to find his package. The jokes were crude, and the author made attempts to be witty which just fell flat. All of the characters, even the nice ones, were insufferable, and I didn’t enjoy any bit of this

This was a quick read but not particularly compelling. I did enjoy the tennis references throughout to symbolize the back and forth between the husband and wife, and the messiness of it all. It was deeply sad even though it read as witty

Very cute but there seemed to be Les plot than the first

I think this was a really good ya mystery of a girl breaking conventions in 15th century Korea to try to find her missing father, repair her relationship with her estranged sister and solve a larger mystery of missing girls. It felt like the characters were a little flat at times, and the plot dragged in some places but it was a fun read