theelliad's Reviews (291)

I love this book just from how relatable it is at times I AM NICO DI ANGELO!! However overarchingly the plot could have been better and the narrative voice feels odd at times and as a result it wasn’t as perfect as I imagined. That said I LOVE NICO AND WILL

Someone please tell Charlotte here that she doesn’t need to use EVERY synonym of a word everytime she wants to describe something! BURN YOUR THESAURUS GIRL.. This didn’t have much going for it with the bad writing style and the racism, but the depictions of the root of evil were cool and the plot had some appeal

Did this series need the last two books, no. Did I love every moment extra i got in this world, yes yes yes. This book is a nice clean conclusion to the building big bad, even if that build up was unnecessary.

although I’m not the biggest fan of them bringing back Fiona from the dead i did very much enjoy her getting a bit more of a role

I also liked that Riggs didn’t try to overly force romance into this one. We got to see all the kids together again and there was some fun moments! the ending was whacky as anything and very much ‘of convenience’ but alas what can be expected from children’s books.

also justice for sebbie

Freud kind of ate with this one I cannot lie! He really does like to link everything back to castration though?

Having now re-read both recently I can safely say that I much prefer this to 1984, the psychological degradation is much more prominent and no time is wasted on pointless sub-plots! This is genuinely a powerful and engaging short novel and would have been easily 5 stars if I didn’t fundamentally dislike Orwell’s writing style! Definitely a strong text though and I almost wish I had got to study this one at some point! 

fun plot, don’t much like the main guy
, not as good as the iliad

I’m usually such a sucker for short stories and for Highsmiths writing but this was just okay, and other than a mildly traumatising duo on snails these stories weren’t really very special or memorable 

what an odd little melancholy book. 
This is a story I feel I will keep forever in the back of my mind, in all it’s ambiguous haunting glory. The hundreds of unanswered questions are frustrating but equally clever and I feel the moments of annoyance are well balanced with poetic and mildly traumatic moments.