Iara

Sally Rooney is definitely not my cup of tea.

This whole book was meh. I found the characters bland and the plot boring. I expected more from a book so hyped, specially for its characters, than  rich snobby kids running around getting drunk and high while thinking they're the smartest people in the room. I feel like it was way too long. The very little that happens could have happened in 200 pages less. And I was also disappointed the professor wasn't in it more, just because of the blurb. Don't go in thinking he appears much because he doesn't.

I didn't love Cat's narrator. Too chirpy even in parts of the book that didn't need it. I also didn't love the whole ‘brain voice' thing, but that's probably because of all the memes about 50 Shades with that to be honest.

Entiendo porqué han añadido un tercer punto de vista, pero son los capítulos que menos me interesaban y creo que no saber lo que realmente estaba pasando habría estado mejor. Pero entiendo que es un libro para adolescentes. También tengo que decir que había varios fallos de edición (palabras que faltan etc), pero eso es lo de menos.

While I enjoyed the talk about religion and how being queer doesn't go against that and they can co-exist, I felt like everything that happened after a certain point was too extreme. It's probably something that can happen, I guess, but it felt unrealistic and like the author was trying to play up the drama so that the characters who had been ‘mad' would get over it and intervene. 

I do like that both Hannah and Baker are somewhat called out for what they do, even if they were in pain, but I also feel it's not enough. Same happens with Clay. I don't think anyone would be that forgiving after what these characters do to some of their friends.

I think I would have enjoyed this more had I read it years ago. It was still enjoyable but it felt lacking. Though I do think it's an important and interesting conversation to have.

Sadly, I found the ending quite disappointing. I also don't understand the need for romance, but I guess it's what you get with YA novels.

I would have loved to see all the things they talk about actually happen, instead all we get are conversations between two men (sometimes 3) either before or after the exciting things happen. There's also no women through most of the story, which is not something I like even if the book is old.

I just wish she could find someone else to disturb the peace. Unnecessary to bring the Darkling back. Very unimaginative, in my opinion.

I didn't know anything about the plot when I started reading, I found it strange but obviously also incredible. I can't wait to read the second one after that ending.

First of all I want to thank NetGalley for the review copy in exchange for an honest review.

And now onto said review. I feel like I would have needed a hundred pages more to be able to fully connect to the characters and the story. I liked the premise, what I read was fine, but I felt like it was not enough. I would have loved to see more backstory to the main characters, I don't find what we need enough to root for them as a couple. I would have also loved to see more of the Princess, she seemed interesting but we didn't get enough to grasp me.

Writing a short story is hard for the very reasons this one didn't get me as interested as it should have. It's still an entertaining read, but I feel like it could have been more than that.

I'm not rating it as high as I should because the start was really slow and I'm personally not interested in reading about how people battle, but I enjoyed it a lot overall and will continue with the series.

I really enjoyed it, though I could have done with less drama in their lives (by page 88 one of the protagonists' dad had died and not long after the other got disowned by her parents, give me a break XD). 
I would have also appreciated them being able to mention the word bisexual even if just as a possibility, but I'm used to it in wlw romance already. 

I really like the plot and the older characters, what I felt was rushed was the romantic development between the main characters, I felt like it had no foundation whatsoever.

I liked this one better than the first, though I didn't enjoy the love triangle at all and wish she'd kept that part out. Specially because of who the third wheel was.
Glad to report the witty charming banter wasn't too overdone here, like it was in the first. 

I usually enjoy her books for what they are, but the unending witty banter and the fact that each character seems the same as the last one is really getting to me. Hoping the next one is less.

You can see the clear ‘influences' from The Lord of the Rings, but it still had enough differences and compelling characters to make for an interesting read.

Sadly it was insta-love (or, we've always been in love even though there's no indication whatsoever) and not slow burn, which is what I expected with the premise. Had I known the romance would go from zero to one hundred in no time I probably wouldn't have bothered. It wasn't a bad read, just not my cup of tea.

This would have been a 3 star like the previous two, but the author's obsession to put down every other team annoyed me to no end. Literally every team fakes fouls, dives and plays dirty which is why we should root for the US, I guess. It would have been so easy to make it an underdog-ish story considering they didn't manage to win the last time. And yet, the author insists on not capitalizing on that and instead makes the matches be a struggle because the other team plays dirty or the ref is being unfair. The only one not like that is the match against Japan and I wonder if it's because it's from Jamie's POV or because the author doesn't care about japan enough to hate on them. I hope the way she narrates matches changes in other future books because yikes.

I started reading this in English and had to change to Spanish after the first three chapters because it was just too hard for me to know what was happening. But, once I went into the Spanish version, everything got better. I feel like the translator made the book better, so props to them for that. The story is interesting even if there's not a lot of assassin things happening until the last 30% of the book, which was disappointing.

I honestly feel like the ending was rushed and Kuvira got a way too soft punishment. I know she's a fan favorite, but I really felt she deserved a harsher ending for all the stuff she did.

Good idea, not a good execution. Too little time to develop anything properly and the characters were just... flat.

Just by how long it took me to read this book we can guess how much I liked it. I feel like I finished the book equivalent of one of those tumblr posts romantizising mental illness and excusing people's horrible behavior because they're sick.

What's sad is I thought I was going to love this book. How wrong was I?

I am only taking one star away because the ending felt rushed and abrupt. I would have loved to get more than what we did.

I honestly can't remember how I got to the book, where I heard of it or if someone told me about it, but I am so glad it happened. I started reading it and literally could not stop. I said to myself ‘I will just read the first couple of chapters to see if it's something I'd like' and I found myself reading way too late in the night. I couldn't put it down.

I love how the characters feel so real. They're not perfect. They make mistakes. They do things that aren't good. They hurt people. And yet, you can't help but love them. They are written so very human.

I will certainly check more books by Taylor Jenkins Reid because I fell in love with this one.

It's not that I didn't like it, it's that I don't care for most of the new characters. If I care about any. I was here for Percy, Annabeth and Nico so you can imagine I wasn't too interested in many of the POVs in this book.