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A dumb mystery about an even dumber main character. It was a little amusing, but more cringe worthy than funny. The worst part was that the main conflict was whether or not Maddie was pregnant (it felt more important than the actual mystery) but there's only so long you can stretch that out. The story opened with her period being late, and the story takes place over a whole week and you don't find out if she's pregnant until the very end...
I also hated how she was late to everything and I never understood why Ramirez liked her.
I also hated how she was late to everything and I never understood why Ramirez liked her.
The prose was just as good as the first, and this book swirls with angst and longing and self discovery. Unfortunately, the plot falls short. It picks up a month after the first book, and Cas is starting to work through Swift's revealed betrayal. I liked the premise, but it starts out too slow and takes too long to get into, and then it's resolved much too quickly for my liking. I just wish there had been more with the other captain trainees and something other than Cas' self reflection guiding the story.
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But Santa Elena's death was one of the best deaths I've ever seen. Hellbeast out of nowhere? Fanfuckingtastic. I had to read the whole scene twice.
Oh, Aunt Tillie. I enjoyed seeing all the wishes the townspeople made, and Landon giving Bay's father a dressing down.
I didn't realize how fantastic wolves are until reading this. I wish that it had a better editor; there were quite a few typos and formatting errors and once half a sentence was missing.
Judging from the reviews I'm the only one, but I thought this was terrifically dull. Our main character, Jal, spends all his time thinking about sex and his own cowardice, yet every time he finds himself in a dangerous situation he blacks out and proceeds to fight with great skill.
It's beyond irritating to watch him constantly betray his friends, family, and companions for his own self interest when he ends up doing the right thing only when he doesn't remember it. Not getting Snorri to a good doctor because he lied about getting him released from the queen? Unforgivable, and never comes up again. When he tells another companion that mustard seed will help with whore pox but then thinks, oh wait, was it fennel seed? And then doesn't care ever again. Exasperating. He's a piece of shit, and doesn't grow at all over the course of the story.
I'm not a big fan of books that are entirely travel, so that may be why I found this so boring, but at the end of the day, I never understood why Jal went along on this mission. He bitched the whole way and I just longed for Snorri to punch him right in his stupid face.
I also hated that Lawrence used a lot of real places (referring to people as Nuban or Viking) but also made up a bunch. The discovery of train tracks made me think he was going for a Shannara thing, but it came across as laziness.
It's beyond irritating to watch him constantly betray his friends, family, and companions for his own self interest when he ends up doing the right thing only when he doesn't remember it. Not getting Snorri to a good doctor because he lied about getting him released from the queen? Unforgivable, and never comes up again. When he tells another companion that mustard seed will help with whore pox but then thinks, oh wait, was it fennel seed? And then doesn't care ever again. Exasperating. He's a piece of shit, and doesn't grow at all over the course of the story.
I'm not a big fan of books that are entirely travel, so that may be why I found this so boring, but at the end of the day, I never understood why Jal went along on this mission. He bitched the whole way and I just longed for Snorri to punch him right in his stupid face.
I also hated that Lawrence used a lot of real places (referring to people as Nuban or Viking) but also made up a bunch. The discovery of train tracks made me think he was going for a Shannara thing, but it came across as laziness.
The Werewolf Handbook: An Essential Guide to Werewolves And, More Importantly, How to Avoid Them
I love a good fake-nonfiction book. This was fun, but I had to knock a star off because what kind of werewolf book doesn't mention the beast of Gevaudan?
I did enjoy all the historical information (people are horrible) and different origin stories.
I did enjoy all the historical information (people are horrible) and different origin stories.
A cat with spider legs, a gender neutral blob ghost, tween lesbians, and a a tender goblin granny? This is pretty much the perfect middle grade graphic novel.
This felt like the literary equivalent of putting on a flannel shirt, lying on old carpet, and listening to Nirvana with your eyes closed. It is so evocative of 90s grunge that it's hard to enjoy in 2020 (though I admittedly suspect I am just too young to have this grunge nostalgia).
The stories themselves are just interesting enough to keep you going, but not interesting enough to make you care or even think about them much after you've finished one. It was all very bland and ethereal. The first few stories seemed very focused on are fey folk real or are they not, which was kind of interesting, but then you realize they are definitely real but you aren't going to learn anything more about them, and that was so disappointing to me. The stories lacked any kind of substance.
The stories themselves are just interesting enough to keep you going, but not interesting enough to make you care or even think about them much after you've finished one. It was all very bland and ethereal. The first few stories seemed very focused on are fey folk real or are they not, which was kind of interesting, but then you realize they are definitely real but you aren't going to learn anything more about them, and that was so disappointing to me. The stories lacked any kind of substance.
