til_naught_wakes's reviews
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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

This was wonderfully fast-paced and intriguing most of the way through, and, having been in a reading slump, I finished it within a few hours.

Small inaccuracies aside, it was a pretty good book overall. That is, until the end, and by the end I mean the literally the last two or three chapters. All that pacing and intrigue was thrown out the window

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for an anticlimatic and utterly unsatisfying ending.

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Fayette has so much build up as this all-mighty, ever growing more powerful character. Then she died within, what? A single chapter? And everything was perfect and tied up in a happy little bow. Which made the entire book seem pointless. Why spend so much time dithering about the subject of killing her only for her to die in the simpliest, most boring way possible?

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Amy Christine Parker

1.0

medium-paced

Loveable characters: No

To everyone saying this was super fun and one of the best books they've ever read, I am genuinely sorry for you because you clearly have never read a good book.

I was sick of this thing by page seven but still managed to choke it down, so I'll be brief.The foreshadowing is heavy-handed and cliché. The writing is basic and awkward. The characters (or at least the ones that are actually introduced) are cliché and unlikable. The "horror" was unironically laughable and so very cliché. (Also, the sans serif font they chose to go with the usual serif one is jarring and hard to read, but that's beside the point.)

tl;dr: save yourself. dont read this.

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