Talk about a whirlwind of a story! As much as I normally don't usually go for books where a majority of the characters are unlikable, learning about everyone's backstory really helps with understanding how they got to their unlikability over time (or why they never bothered to change). The friend group the book is focused on is ABSOLUTELY toxic and the author does a good job of making that clear from beginning to end. Even the bouncing back between present-day and their college years was done well (also something I'm not usually a fan of in books) and was incorporated seamlessly for the plot. Trigger warning though, with a story heavily revolved around rape, there was a fair amount of unsupportiveness coming from the female leads. However, I do like that the author makes it a point to highlight the fact that, unfortunately, a high percentage of rape is committed by someone the person knows. I got sucked in right away and highly recommend it for anyone that's looking for twists and turns with a satisfying (and shocking) conclusion.

I absolutely LOVED this book (as much as it can be acceptable to love a book about female con artists in history)! All of the women featured gave me a little taste of what kind of scams and schemes they were able to accomplish at that point in time, and the author has a wonderful writing tone has a conversational flair to it. I definitely want to read her other books.

A little slow-moving pace-wise, but this book beautifully covers the long timeframe where you feel like you are on Fanny's journey with her.

Everyone needs to read this. A no fills journalistic approach to the literal horrors going on in American history that the bigots keep trying to hide.

It's very clear that Kang has experience in the medical realm with how details she describes anything related to autopsies and chemistry. Wasn't really in love with any of the characters, but I did really enjoy the overall story and it was a well-paced page turner.

A good introduction to the history of birth control from the timeframe of Nazi Germany in power, but would've loved a bit more on the extent of the research aspect. Otherwise very informative.

I absolutely loved this book due to its overall premise of appreciating the little things in life while we are on this Earth for a short time. I know that that pandemic aspect might date it/cause PTSD in later readings, but since we are still fresh from experiencing it, it really puts into perspective what brings us joy in times of darkness. I will definitely be listening to the podcast of this. Another win for John Green.

The concept was interesting and the artwork very much had that retro pop art type feel to it, but the overall story and characters were a little all over the place. I have a feeling I might like volumes 2 and 3 more than this first one.

So this volume definitely helped me understand a little bit more of what being a Phonomancer means regarding abilities and really enjoyed the fact that each issue is focused on a different character and their experiences with this ability (since it can either be positive or negative). Very much more into how music has different effects on people. However, Lloyd’s part literally makes me decrease the score by one star because it was so boring and unnecessary.

I really liked the premise of this book (which is huge considering I'm usually not a fan of books that flip back and forth between time periods), and I thought all of the characters were very well fleshed out. I even enjoyed the irony of it reading like I was watching it on a screen (since a film being made is a large portion of the story). However, maybe 100-200 pages could have been consolidated, including some of the time jumps. But overall I really enjoyed this book and it's been a while since I've read something in a longer page count. Kind of hoping they do a miniseries for this (I personally don't think there would be enough time in a movie to get all of the important details).