Hannah

I read it so you don't have to. Seriously don't waste your time .

Okay so here's the thing. I read this because of a few reasons. 1. It is considered be a national treasure of France 2. It is constantly listed as one of the most horrifying books people have ever read

Yes this book is disgusting and made my skin crawl and made me hate humanity. Yes I understand this book is a rough draft and was written while the author was imprisoned at the Bastille. Yes it supposed to shed light on the darkest parts of the human mind.

Considering all of this, the book is still BAD. The writing doesn't make sense in most places and where is does make sense it is equally boring as it is disgusting.

C'mon France you can do better about picking your national treasures. Page after page of people eating shit and a terrible writing doesn't deserve all this attention. Be better.

So I actually finished this book forever ago. It really just... fine I'll say it. It was boring. And predictable. And the first few chapters were awesome, and then after the whole lab destruction scene, it just felt like an episode of TWD.

I can't right now. Holy hell. This book was everything. Everything. Above the way it's written, it made me laugh and cry and fear and cheer and all the things a good book should. But it told an amazing tale of how the bad don't always turn good and the ones who save us aren't always heros. It tackled things like PTSD and addiction with grace and drew attention to them and showed how serious they are, but didn't take away from the story to do so, the problems of the characters was woven into the story with such perfection. I can't handle it. I will be rereading this book over and over and over again

This book was something. I didn't like it as much as the first one, not by a long shot and that mostly because nothing interesting happens for almost the entire first half. It drab and whiny, but the second half definitely picked up. And the way the author tells the story is truly fantastic the world is so well done I can imagine it clearly and fully without too much detail and the characters are all flawed and none of them go out of their way to change who they are just to placate any other characters which is so rare i think. (I wish someone would come to a fucking compromise at some point in this story 😭 just for the sake of my sanity). Overall though I liked this book a lot.

This was a fun little adventure. I thought the story was a weird (in a good way) mash up of a batman comic, Six of Crows, and The Troop. It was original and refreshing. I liked that healing and friendship were the main focus on this novel rather than romance. That being said the characters were missing some depth and despite lots of dialogue and backstory I didn't feel very connected to them, there was a layer missing that I can't put my finger on. Regardless is was a fun read and I'll definitely read the second one!