tetromino's Reviews (233)

I don't really want to give this one a number rating, because I know it's not really for me but I found this book so damn frustrating. The prose is undeniably good but it's also the kind of prose I just find hard to read or enjoy, I simply prefer more concise writing and dislike when there is dense descriptions. I know, I KNOW, that the author is just trying to build a scene but it was not working for me at all.

I just wanted to like this so much more, I feel like it had all the elements that should have spoken to me, but it just didn't hit. Alas. Another book for class down.

Yeah…to live as a woman is something else…this one got me

It's, like, fine. It's totally fine. I didn't really feel particularly compelled by any of the characters and there was such a lack of downtime that felt like I actually got to know the characters in any way other than "She's a determined girl!" and "He's a nice guy!" She kept getting all these powerups and they didn't really feel particularly justified, but whatever. I admit I was suffering from "no lead syndrome" in this one, like date whoever, date neither, it doesn't really matter girl.

Idk, I feel mean, it's a perfectly fine book if you are into these kinds of books, I don't think I'm the target audience. I thought I would be because I totally love chinese dramas but just wasn't for me! Cover art is lovely, though.

Like I was engaged in reading this but half of the time I was like that is too much money...far too much money...capitalism and investors and shareholders and all of this to simply get people medicine they need to survive, it's all so fucking criminal and evil

This book is so fucking funny in a problematic way, it gets three stars for pure entertainment value. I took so many screenshots of this book to send to people while I was reading it. The main girl is transplanted into the body of a supermodel and spends most of the book bemoaning how vapid and lame this dead supermodel girl must have been while also enjoying all the privileges afforded to her now that she's in her body. Proceeds to call the dead supermodel, Nikki, a skank multiple times and yet is also totally down to kiss all of the guys she thought Nikki was a skank for kissing. Incredible. If she ever registers the hypocrisy of this, it's not in THIS book.

Moments so funny/terrible I had to screenshot them to send to people:

- One of Nikki's boyfriends forces himself on her despite her saying 'no' and when he says 'i know you want it' she's like haha so true, I do! What kind of message for kids...

- Calling some dude's vespa the "least cool mode of transportation" and "effeminate", as if a vespa isn't like a total dreamboat vehicle to own!?

- Priding herself as the only girl who is smart enough to recognize that her best friend is a potential hottie despite his long hair, lol

- Baffling kiss scene where she talks about "where her boobs are gonna be later" and I still don't know what she could possibly be talking about. Where are they going? Why are you not "able to stop them from being there." 

- Random jab at her friend by implying she looks like a male prostitute she saw once--leave him alone he's just trying to earn a living.

- She poured a drink on a boy with a one-liner and everbody clapped

- Talking way too long about sweatpants

- Being totally excited that her best friend is depressed after her death because it meant he was in love with her and it's "the most romantic thing I'd ever heard!" 

Idk what to even say about this book. It was like, fine, for the majority. I was just kinda plodding through it for reading challenge purposes. Then BOOM an extremely out of place, and frankly offensive, ending. I can't even tell if the author intended it to be so rancid but it certainly came off that way. Fucking eeeyikes, no matter how you want to interpret it, to present a character's way of gender presentation (or possibly mental illness, as the book maybe implies???) as a spell they need to "break"  by convincing the person they are miserable actually is a bad look.

Still pondering on this one if I'm being honest

Taking your time when there's never enough time

Wait, I'm reverting to a 5th grader right now