Angela

this is the first sanderson book i've read and many people say how it's his first and it's not that good. so if this is the “not that good” book i wonder what the rest of his books are like and i'm excited

wow, ok, i don't know
the parts that i liked i really LOVED and the parts that i didn't like i freaking HATED so what should i do with this?
the thing is everything was fine until the last conflict bit. i had an issue with the way they got together. it made the beginning kinda slow and a bit boring considering the fact that we know they ARE getting together but the reason was somewhat legit so it was okay in the end.
then when we found out about Charles' past i was feeling like i was missing out on a more interesting book cause i wanted more but oh well.
i liked the sex. but i have an issue with the fact that once they did get together sex is basically the only thing we see and that gave me an impression that sex was the only thing they did (which is not true cause we do have some brief mentions of hey we went to Beatrice's birthday, yay us). but since it had a point and was actually interesting and enjoyable to read i'm not gonna complain about that.
then we get to an issue of Gray wanting to explore more and Charles being like ‘nah, i don't wanna but i'm not gonna tell Gray that i don't wanna cause reasons'. which is like fine, whatever. as far as conflicts go this actually is not that bad and could have been interesting (and oh how i wish this was THE conflict of this book), i was looking forward to it but all we got was them having a sex scene where Gray gets pissed off and leaves and then the next scene where they make up in, you guessed it, sex scene. and it's never talked about again and the issue never comes up in a narrative again. it's just dropped. well ok then, sure
and that leaves us with the main conflict. i'm not gonna say what it was exactly but Gray thinks Charles did smth really bad. it seems Charles is the only one who could have done it. we, as a reader, have like a 99% confidence that no, he didn't do it though it does seem like he is only one who could. to be fair it is actually bad. so Gray is pissed off and he accuses Charles of it. and so we have this scene:

“I did not [do it].” Charles faced Gray. “I give you my word.”
“And I don't believe you.” Gray's mouth set stubbornly.

“We can't just paper over what happened. The bottom line is that you didn't trust me. Not even when I gave you my word. The relationship we have – had – was based on trust; it was at the heart of it. Not just the usual expectation that we'd be faithful – every relationship has that; I'm talking about what we do. I can't go back to that if I'm not sure – and I'm not. Not now. And I think we both know it wouldn't work between us without that element.”

with every book, i love this series more and more
i did hate zach a little but he makes tristan happy and that's all that matters

oh, and i wanna violently murder every single person who has ever hurt tristan. so there's that

i can't say i liked it but i think my own expectations are more at fault here than anything else
i didn't like the dynamic eve and roarke have. that's not what i wanted and if i knew i wouldn't have picked it up. there's a character here, charles monroe. him i liked. if it was up to me, he would have been the love interest and they wouldn't have actually kicked it off until like book 5 or even 10. i like the flirting and the teasing and the dancing around. i'm not saying i like slowburn, cause i don't. but i like ust (unresolved sexual tension) a lot. and here they're already having sex halfway through the book and he says he loves her after like a week of knowing her. ugh, come on.
and i didn't like roarke as himself either. he's too aggressive, almost primal and i just don't like that. i'm fine with possessive (to the extent) but aggressive is not my type

as for the mystery itself, it was fine i guess. i'd like more cat and mouse thing than what we got. i mean the only thing here is that he sent her the videos. that's just not interesting enough. but maybe that's just me. i like watching procedurals (like castle. castle is probably one of my favourite tv shows of all time) but i find it surprisingly boring to read them.
so, all in all, i wasn't that impressed. it made me wanna rewatch castle though (which i did, halfway through this book, i binged the first three seasons which only made me even more disappointed in this book) but oh well
oh, and i liked the cat. a cat is always a good thing. still probably not continuing the series

still do not consider this type of text to be poetry but i did like this one much more than some others i have read in this genre

I thought I would hate it, I really did. I hated Gabriel from what little we saw of him in a previous book and this is not a trope I enjoy. I read other people's reviews and I just, I was so sure I would hate it.
I didn't. Actually I kinda liked it. It could've turn out so painfully. I though I would pity Jared and hate Gabriel for hurting him but it didn't end that way. I had nothing to be afraid of.

And another totally irrelevant thing.... the situation with the girlfriend and the kid... it made me think of smth... someone... a real life ship I tried to throw out of my mind for so long... it never goes away though. And this book, it made think that... what if... what if it's not just wishful thinking... it's painful and I just,.. i'm putting this out there: if you know what i'm referring to you might... feel things

not relevant but
i was reading this as an audiobook and that last bit gave me such strong gossip girl vibes. like literally in my head after
and who am i?
it went straight to
that's one secret i'll never tell
you know you love me
xoxo
gossip girl

first: i hate all the adults here
second: where the fuck is ezra? there was like one scene with him ;(
third: wren is unlikable. why?? i loved him so much in the tv show

i don't know. the show is just... better. yes, it's ridiculous but this is simply not interesting

i don't know
i feel like i loved it and hated it at the same time
i'm glad i've finally read it

2.5
i wish this was a movie instead of the original

i was trying to understand what is it that i didn't like about the book and i think there are two things
first is “christian grey” (taylor grayson). he was somehow absolutely unlikable. he didn't even have a sense of humour. at least anastasia and christian had somewhat funny banter. you know, in the same sense the romance in the star wars prequels is adorable. like aww, you are both so bad at this but at least you're trying. here there's simply no chemistry between the characters. i just don't believe in the romance. no, you don't love each other, you just wanna fuck (maybe this happened because there's only like 150 pages, but still)
second is the ending. maybe because i didn't like taylor AT ALL i was rooting for our main character to just say “fuck you all” and leave to new york. i didn't like the whole “we are together an everything's perfect” ending. come on! even in the 50sog anastasia actually left him at the end and she spent the good first half of the second book trying to get rid of him. i don't know, i think alex here should've just said “no” and shut the door right to taylor's face in the last scene. christian was more redeemable than this asshole and that's saying smth.

how i hate teresa

so is it weird my favourite character is AIDAN? yes, the Mass-Murdering Psychopathic (not) Artificial Intelligence. i don't know, i just always like the ai characters the most (though in this case, the guy who did his parts in the audiobook might be partially at fault)

i liked it fine. it has the same vide as Alice in Wonderland or even Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at times. or at least it seems like it's trying to. the problem is that more often than not i felt like it's trying too hard. i liked the random though. it was all too convenient but that's the point and it's interesting to watch how all the things come together.

i cried a lot
Christopher deserved so much better

god, i spent the last third if not more trying not to cry

this is so great. miles is amazing! i love him

i should stop reading
modern poetry
that is not
poetry
written by women feminists
who hate men
and skinny girls
and think that cutting
sentences but still reading it as
one sentence
somehow makes them more
poetic

- it doesn't

disagree with almost every word for it's pretentious and toxic and self-indulgent

you know how they say it's always better to LISTEN to the poetry? especially if the author herself performs it? well, this is the perfect proof there's always an exception. though i wouldn't call this poetry anyway, so...
why not just write a memoir or a collection of essays or smth? ugh

That's it. I always said there was something fundamentally wrong about the universe. So what do we do now?

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book about smth you want to do

i did not like this book one bit. it is absolutely pointless half of it is generic things like “we all have a dream of some kind but until you start working on it a dream is all it is” and the other half are quotes from different books or people
the thing that made it almost impossible to read for me is a condescending tone the author used when talking about people who might disagree with him. like “you might think differently, of course, if you are ready not to be successful and never make a good book. because i am a best-selling author, i know how to write”
like, ugh, we get, can be a little less self-loving?

booktubeathon2018
first book's down

this is a two-star book for me - meaning it was ok BUT it made me tear up twice so i'm giving it an extra star for that.
brooklyn annoyed me a lot until maybe the very last bit. she was shallow and stupid and everything she did irritated me. which is not me bashing the book. people like that annoy me in real life as well.
hunter the third seemed to change personality in the end. i don't know, from their first interactions i thought him to be more of a loner. like you that cool guy who doesn't give a shit about this whole school hierarchy bullshit, like “i do what i want” kinda guy. i guess i was wrong. oh well. that detention scene was amazing nevertheless.
the plot was fairly predictable and the foreshadowing was quite obvious but that didn't bother me that much.
i thought Brooklyn would try and find the guy Mrs. Moody freaked out about and there would be a resolution before.. you know. but she completely forgot about doing anything about it. you could argue she just wasn't fast enough. i actually think it's more realistic that way. not everything in life gets resolved, you know. it's the truth, however sad.
i didn't like the bit about Shayne's dad at the end. it feels like a cop-out or a convenience to me. i'd appreciate it more if Shayne still had anything but knew she didn't have Brooklyn.

Ok, wow, I don't even know. I guess I need to think about it.

so i really didn't like leah. bram was ok but i would still prefer simon to end up with cal

i enjoyed it immensely. it was dark and mesmerising. the whole mythos about fates was so interesting and dark. i love how it was almost as a dark fairytale that turned out to be true.

jacks fucking stole my heart. i hope he will be in the next book and i hope he will play a bigger part/role in it.

it was so good, really good. i was so surprised and excited... until it turned ridiculous in the last 20 or so pages. this whole thing with kansas is too much. i was like: “come on! we were doing so great! we don't need this” and then i was rolling my eyes.
and the “take your place among us” scene... right, like that's gonna happen. oh, please

ugh, i liked it so so much and then after the big climax in the rainbow kingdom thingy happened it just spiralled down and didn't stop until the end