Dina

Oh, man, did I learn a lot! Never thought I'd have this much interest in dinosaurs, but here I am!

Also, I totally see what they did there at the end and I approve of that message.

I missed this so much and I wasn't even aware of it.
I'm going through the earlier stuff to catch up to the more recent episodes and not feel completely lost.
This is still as weird, funky and so soulful as I remembered it. These characters and their fast-paced lives in their weird desert community hold a special place in my heart.

4.5 stars
My emotions are all over the place. I shall come back with a better review once I've made sense of the mess in my head.

I honestly don't see what's so bad about it that got so many people angry.

I really enjoyed it, had great fun reading it, loved the main friendship in this, and I wanted to wrap Scorpius Malfoy in a soft blanket and protect him from this cruel world.

4.5 stars
I just can't with open endings, sorry. But this one touched really deep. I'm still reeling.

Very peculiar read with an intense writing style and heavy subjects. It was quite interesting, even if I'm not too familiar with this sort of mythology.

3.5 stars for me

4.5 stars
This one got to me way more than Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.
I'll expand on this sometime later.

I'm definitely not the target audience here, but I feel like it gives young people who work in advertising some good advice to prosper.

How can I even explain this?

The writing is beautiful and magical, but some of the things happening here gave me the chills. Not in an enjoyable way either.

There are many triggers, so I'd advise you to proceed with caution.

3.5 stars

The story had some interesting twists and even went a bit darker than I was expecting it to go at certain points, but the main character sometimes... Eh.

Some bits here were really disgusting to imagine and that open ending left me hanging, waiting for something more solid. Overall, it was okay, though. Definitely interesting and different.

Learned a lot from this. I feel like we could all benefit from hearing the perspective of people who live different lives from ours. I'm sure it'd be a nice first step towards putting an end to ignorant hate.

I felt for all these people and all their different struggles, some of them because society just can't seem to be able to think outside the box sometimes. I also found myself joining in their joy when things took a happy turn.

A wholesome reading. I do hope Mr. Solomon will manage to write a more in depth book on this subject.

It was a really tense yet enjoyable read!

This book is so wholesome.
The more I read this sort of books, the more convinced I get that anything that deals with family hits me way harder than any romance story out there.
The only thing that kind of struck me weird was how these 3 kids just immediately connected. Like right off the bat, they're super comfortable with each other, and it somehow didn't seem very realistic to me. Everything else was heartbreakingly beautiful.

I am a mess of emotions because of this book, but I loved it and shall forever hold it dear.

Really interesting topic and experience. Would love to read more on this subject.

Men are scum, so women have to be their own heros and take care of it.

That's it. That's all you need to know about this story.

Very wholesome with some really good teachings that, sadly, many people could learn from.

I love this whole series and how well fleshed out these characters are.

You can learn so much from it and it's all so hopeful and good and I love it to death.

Rating this one was really difficult.

Here's the thing: this book dragged on for more than half of its length before it got to the actual main plot of the story, which is the whole conversion camp thing. For that, I couldn't really rate it very high, because it made me go through most of those 240 or so pages thinking “can we just get to the point?” and started getting bored of the other things that were happening that kept getting in the way of me reaching the point of the story I wanted.

I started growing impatient and cranky, and completely lost interest. I was moments away from giving up, but my curiosity (and stubbornness) got the best of me and then I finally reached my goal. And then it finally started getting interesting. And also disturbing. The more I read of this conversion thing, the angrier I'd get. And then that kid... man, that one really got to me. I totally understood Cameron when she was saying that, being in that room when it happened, stopped her from ever being able to joke about it with her friends. And then the fallout of all that...

The ending threw me for a spin there, but it also kinda made sense in a way. It's really difficult to explain how I feel about the whole thing.

I guess, all things considered, I liked it. I just wish that first half of the book had been shorter. It'd be a 3.5 stars for me, if Goodreads let me give books half stars.

This book broke me in all the right ways.

3.5 stars

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4.5 stars

I really wanted to know what happened after everything happened and how people moved on and learned to live with it all afterwards, but then there was a 19 year-long time jump and that made me sad.