tanouska's Reviews (589)

I really enjoyed the concept of this book, and most of the execution too. I did think it was too bad that in the summary on the back of the book the main character was referred to with the 'he' pronoun, while the book makes it very clear that that is not the case. It easily could have been replaced by 'they' and thus avoided influencing the first impression of the character this way.
(I guess it may have been a deliberate choice to maybe make you look at how first impressions influence you and how it can be difficult to step away from them, which is also a theme in the book I guess, but I would have preferred it not be that way.)
I also could have done without the chapter full of fatshaming.

I also thought A was being rather stalkerish in the beginning, and that his obsession with Rhiannon was a bit creepy. Then again, when you are in a different body each day, with new people around you each day, maybe it makes some sort of sense when you have a really good click with someone, that you want to stick around for once, have someone get to know you, etcetera.
I in general have a bit of a problem with these 'instantly obsessively in love' situations, so that doesn't help, probably. Ah well.

I din't want the book to stop where it did, I wanted to read on and now I'm miffed that it's really done. Then again, imagining how it would continue without any of the options being disproven is also fun ^^

I was glad I left a little time between reading part one and this one, but not too much time either. It kept it from being too repetitive, but also left enough details in my memory to make some things more significant, when remembering it from the other POV.

3.5

The story really pulls you into her mindset, really well written.
(The mention of asexuality was a nice suprise and bonus!)

I enjoyed the second half of the book more than the first half, I feel like the story really got up to speed then, only to stop suddenly because shit, it's a trilogy and part 3 hasn't been published yet!

I like the use of stories and fairy tales in these books, and how different retellings and perspectived can change the whole thing. Always important to remember.

I really like how knowing authors makes you read books that you otherwise probably wouldn't have found or chosen to read. I generally prefer novels instead of short story collections like these, but I enjoyed reading this all the same. Especially 'It Started Before Noon' and 'By Candlelight' because the settings were so original.

This was a fun, fast and cute read :D

This was very good, it was also hard to read*, with difficult subject matters. It made me cry multiple times. I think how you read and experience this book is really influenced by your own life experiences (though I guess that's true for every book) so I don't know if it will be as good and hard to read for others. It deals with multiple subjects matters, and while many of them are not things I know from personal experience, others are. I don't know what I want to say with this. Maybe that I think that different people can find different things in this book, and that for others it may not work at all?
Anyhow, I hate writing reviews cause I never know what to say, I don't feel like I do the books justice, but I did want to say something. Blah.


*Not literally, it sucked me in and kept me reading. It took me 6 days because I wanted to really sit for it and have time when I read it. It's not really a book you read a few pages of in between doing other things, at least not for me. Maybe that would have made it less intense though. I dunno.