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Shocking to read about the kind of people who become parents and about the struggles they leave behind in their children, in more than one generation. I've never known anything about McCurdy before listening to this and I didn't feel like I would've needed to, but maybe there are things I would've understood the context of had I been a fan of hers through the years.
An interesting, different kind of thriller where a murder isn't in the forefront and women are in the lead. There was abuse, but not a single rape happened! Quality content, imho.
I kept trying to guess what is going to happen, which is a good sign. I listen to audiobooks while crafting or cleaning, and often the plots don't really get me that interested, but this one got me good.
There were some parts that felt like maybe the authors made a mistake, but with an audiobook it's hard to tell cause I can't go back to double check. The ending was a bit abrupt and felt like they couldn't actually quite figure out how to end the story so they made the villain crumble in an uncharacteristic way, while trying to shoehorn in the reasoning behind it. The main character stayed true to herself, however. She was flawed, but portrayed in a way that made me root for her.
The study of morale was interesting, but felt a bit stretched in parts. The question of whether the punishment should always fit the crime was made a sort of a central point, but felt really vague in context of the story, like it was an idea that the authors wanted to hang onto despite the story itself steering away from it.
I really enjoyed the alternating POVs and their separate readers, it made it easier for me to keep track of what's happening, and I think the readers did a great job.
Tarina oli ihana, kuten myös hahmot. Tykkäsin siitä, miten ketään ei kuvailtu kuvailemisen vuoksi. Ihmiset olivat vanhoja, nuoria, heillä oli ominaisuuksia joilla oli merkitystä tarinan kannalta, muu saatettiin mainita tai saatettiin olla mainitsematta. Backman osasi kuvailla tapaa, jolla naiset usein tuntevat syyllisyyttä menestyksestään ja sen vaikutuksista muihin. Hän tavoitti hienosti mielenterveysongelmien moninaisuuden.
Mistä en pitänyt, ja mikä teki kirjasta itselleni vaikealukuisen, oli kerrontatapa. Se poukkoili sinne tänne, ei pelkästään juonen tarpeiden takia vaan myös sivuhuomioina, jotka osaltaan toivat syvyyttä tarinaan mutta osaltaan harhauttivat.
Olisi mielenkiintoista tietää, miten tämä olisi kirjoitettu jos kirjailija olisi ollut alunperin suomenkielinen, jolloin persoonapronominien käyttöä ei olisi tarvinnut kierrellä. Vaikka asiaa kyllä kierreltiin taitavasti!
I'm amazed by how Hobb manages to keep me so in thrall while very little actually happens. Her description of the cultures, lore and nature of a new region is fascinating and the characters in it as fascinating as ever. They're all fully formed humans, even the dragons. I can't wait to read what happens next.
I've read three different series from Harris, and based on the first part Lily Bard doesn't really stand out. She has the same ridiculous fixation of body hair and constant judgement of other women as Sookie does.
Describing poc by what shade of food/drink their skin was was pretty cringe, and I felt it striking that the first black person mentioned was a trash collector. Yikes. I'll give it some slack since the first publishing was in 1996, but it sure has not aged well.
Not sure if I'm interested to read more, the mystery wasn't that great, although I appreciate that the reader had all the same details as the character did! The chief of police really gave Lily way too much leeway to seem legit.
Maailma oli kiinnostava, hahmot ja mitä heille tapahtui eivät.
Annoying and predictable.
WTF, this book was pure anxiety. Toxic masculinity, racism, gaslighting, references to the ADHD-“craze” of the 90s, with hardly any actual vampire action. I think there was an effort to be like Dracula?
Boring and preachy, what a dreadful combination.
I rarely DNF something when I'm already so close to finishing, but I just didn't care what happened to Jack and Jill or whatever their names were. McGuire's writing writhers my soul by chewing the simplest of ideas and spitting it out for the reader to digest, and when a book is less than 300 pages long it really doesn't leave much space for actual content. I hated the characters, cared for them even less than I cared for anyone in the Every Heart a Doorway, and rolled my eyes numerous times at the supposed rebellion against gender norms. How the hell this series has won awards, I will never understand.
Listened about half, couldn't get over how everything was in Elio's head and nothing much actually happened. Which is good cause the age difference is bordering on pedophilia.
After reading the first two books in quick succession this just didn't hit the spot anymore. I'll give it another shot later!
Interesting but much too complicated for me to go through as an audio book!
Somehow I did not realise this was about the Norse Gods again, which do not interest me at all.
Liian masentavaa luettavaa. Pääsin sivulle 102, minkä jälkeen hyppäsin viimeisiin lukuihin nähdäkseni miten kävi.
I didn't find any other story than Schwab's interesting.
Morgenstern's writing just isn't for me. Years ago I struggled through Night Circus and only picked this up because it was said this was different..... it was not. Too many details that have nothing to do with the plot and too many fancy words just for the sake of fancy words. Action? She tried.
Just painfully cringe, the more McFadden I read the less I want to read them.
Well that was as subtle as a brick in the face and fatphobic to boot. DNF @ 14%