Tea
I started this sometime in December, knew that it would be a good book but I put it down for some reason until several weeks ago (I started in August, put it down, picked it up in December and thought "oh, this is going to be a really good book" then put it down for some bizzare reason I can't remember, picked it back up June 12 and have been absorbed ever since).
Between reading it in snippets with every pocket of time that I had available, getting towards the end of the book and being able to tie everything together, knowing that my rereads are only going to be better than going in blind because I know everything, and the reactions that I couldn't hide while I was blasting through the final hundred pages in a coffee shop (I literally held my head in my hands for several points but I just couldn't stop reading). I knew that this would be an incredible book with an ending that leaves me yearning for the next book.
This was the first book that I read in a while where I enjoyed how it was written and it felt correct for this book. Getting the snippets of each characters perspective as the story moves along, how unique everyone was, that I was able to feel for every single person. Typically with multi-pov books I tend to prefer a select few (or even just one) pov's and then when it gets to a character's pov that I don't like, I end up skimming through it, just enough to get the idea of what is going on but not enough to really read it just so I could get to what I viewed as the "better" pov's. This was the first book where I loved to read every single character's pov. Sometimes the pov chapters felt waay too short and I knew that the character could add more to the story but overall everyone added to the story and the multiple layers woven through was fun to slowly discover as time went on.
I could keep going but I'm slowly realizing that book reviews aren't my strong suit. So I'll leave it on this note: If I remember to, and ever have the chance to, this will be a book that I re-read time and time again.
I started this sometime in December, knew that it would be a good book but I put it down for some reason until several weeks ago (I started in August, put it down, picked it up in December and thought "oh, this is going to be a really good book" then put it down for some bizzare reason I can't remember, picked it back up June 12 and have been absorbed ever since).
Between reading it in snippets with every pocket of time that I had available, getting towards the end of the book and being able to tie everything together, knowing that my rereads are only going to be better than going in blind because I know everything, and the reactions that I couldn't hide while I was blasting through the final hundred pages in a coffee shop (I literally held my head in my hands for several points but I just couldn't stop reading). I knew that this would be an incredible book with an ending that leaves me yearning for the next book.
This was the first book that I read in a while where I enjoyed how it was written and it felt correct for this book. Getting the snippets of each characters perspective as the story moves along, how unique everyone was, that I was able to feel for every single person. Typically with multi-pov books I tend to prefer a select few (or even just one) pov's and then when it gets to a character's pov that I don't like, I end up skimming through it, just enough to get the idea of what is going on but not enough to really read it just so I could get to what I viewed as the "better" pov's. This was the first book where I loved to read every single character's pov. Sometimes the pov chapters felt waay too short and I knew that the character could add more to the story but overall everyone added to the story and the multiple layers woven through was fun to slowly discover as time went on.
I could keep going but I'm slowly realizing that book reviews aren't my strong suit. So I'll leave it on this note: If I remember to, and ever have the chance to, this will be a book that I re-read time and time again.