Minki

my timbers.. consider them shivered.

i was hoping it ended with every character dying a slow torturous death but they just went with the classic “and everyone lived happily ever after” route instead.

would rather snort crushed up shards of glass than ever read this again

heartbreaking and depressing.

rant incoming:
I grew up dirt poor and being poor as a child is basically being an adult stuck in a kid body. From birth-18 years old, we shouldn't have had to worry if we would be evicted, had power shut off, wondering when we would eat next but we went to bed and school with thoughts clouding our heads of how and when we could make rent.
Poor children don't get childhoods!
The world works hard to keep poor people under their shoes. The rich don't get taxed but a person who works overtime to not even be able to afford rent gets hounded and fined for being late paying a bill.
I will forever hate this world until the rich realise they are rich because of us. I will hate this world until children don't have to sell their bodies to be able to eat and survive while celebrities hoard wealth.

started off sympathising with the monster but half way through i honestly wanted him dead too lol

he scared the shit out of me

it was meh

hm this is a weird one and i don't know how to rate it. I'm feeling 3 stars but also 3.5 and can't decide between the two.
Very incredible writing and characters but not really realistic to me as i can't see these characters as people who would really exist. These characters are just characters if that makes sense.

Plot was a bit weird because i wonder how and why things that happened in this book happened.

Main character isn't a good person, she didn't do anything vile but she has barely any morals.
Rebecca is a complex character because she is kinda portrayed as the villain of the story when she isn't really. unless she was the one that killed the dog?? it could only be her as she said "i feel like i'm the only one who has to deal with that dog" (no an exact quote), if so.. she is evil but still somehow the best character in the book

liked the relationship drama more than the chapters about the shark if i'm honest

i saw the movie in 2006, the shark looked way too fake to me so the movie made me giggle but the book is very gory so it did actually scare me lol

i live in Australia so i live 5 minutes away from a couple beaches but that also means i never go in the water because Australian sea life is deadly (like tf is a blue ring octopus? tinier than a finger nail but can kill 26 men in a matter of minutes.. yeah it's a no from me)
The last time i went into the ocean i was 15 and a string ray with a huge barb swam past me and i cried.

i love sharks and think them killing people is valid because they are animals.. obviously. So many sad stories have come from shark attacks but if you go into the ocean..you basically signed a contract that you might die in there. No need to demonize sharks or water itself but just don't enter the water if you don't want that chance of dying. Water doesn't fuck around

beautiful writing but it just dragged on and it just wasn't enjoyable. The plot was boring.
Reading about men making sexual comment towards a young teen for most of the book was hard to read, i know its true and should be written about but it was just constant and made me feel repulsed from this book.

I also have a huge problem with a certain paragraph but i'll have to type it all out later as i just got my nails done and can't type properly lol. I'm definitely questioning why the author wrote this book... very bad vibes from him.

the one thing i love more than reading and collecting books is this game. It's a long ass game but i've played it 8 times over and can never stop thinking about it. It's my favourite thing in the entire world and i'm so happy i got the deluxe edition of this art book!!

also this book about art concepts made me cry LMAO
it just made me think of the game and story and it has me bawling

sobbing and throwing myself on the ground as i type this.

One of the best books i've ever read. Oh. My. God.

it started out great but it quickly turned into a 2012 YA novel.. way overdone

very depressing and i had to take breaks as it was harming my mental health (as i was already in a depressive episode) but it was a beautiful story with the most amazing writing.
Every single character left a mark on me and it's crazy that this is a true story based on real people. It's so heart breaking.

thank god i don't own the rest of this series because i know i would never read them like.... ever.
It's too childish and predictable. It follows the same formula all early 2010 YA's do and it doesn't make for a fun read

14 year old me would've loved this but it was pretty average to read as a 23 year old. I don't care for ‘his smirk and dark hair ruined my life” type of YA books because.. cringe but idk this was kinda fun to read. I hated whenever they were dragons because the audiobook still voiced the characters with high pitched sassy teen voices and idk its kinda silly for a huge badass looking dragon to be sounding like a child

started great but boy oh boy... pure torture from then on out.

only 48 pages but all characters felt established with solid personalities.. it's crazy how this family writes.
Kept me at the edge of my seat and it actually scared me!

it felt like the writing was meant for middle grade but the book did hold my attention the whole time and i had fun!

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brb gonna go watch Me Before You again

I got this book from an old man who knows i like reading, he got it from a library who gave away books that no one borrowed, he took it off their hands and gave it to me.
The book has a sticker melted onto the cover saying “$2”, pretty cheap for a book if you ask me. Why did a library book have a price tag on it? beats me.
But for a book being worth only 2 dollars when it was first sold... it was unbelievably good. I would pay hundreds of dollars to erase my memories of this book and read it all again.

The old man who gave it to me checks up on me and asks if i've read any of the books he's given me over the years and to be honest.. most of the books are trash but i do try to read one of them a month so reading this book was a chore to me, just so i could say i read one of his books instead of disappointing him.

I'm so glad i picked up this book and i never would of thought it would be a new favourite.

The cover of the edition i own is ugly.. like really ugly and i can't find the edition on goodreads but words can't describe how ugly it is. BEAUTIFUL story on the inside though.

I can't recommend this book enough.

it turns out that reading two MHG books back to back isn't a good thing! It's very obvious how similar her books are.. which makes guessing who is the killer very obvious

whole series read like a middle grade and the characters act like 14 year olds, not adults.

I bought these books a while ago because i wanted something creepy to read but all i got was annoying and bland characters and tacky stock images strewn between pages

it 4 stars until the last quarter but the end was still great!

better than the first book and the characters felt more real, a great cast of characters but i do wish i felt more connected to them

not really a memorable series for me honestly but my feelings might change in the future idk, it seems like a fun book to re-read so i might visit it again in the future :))

very juvenile.. even for a YA book. Tried too hard to be scary.
Also very confusing and questions are never answered.