Susan

This was hilarious. Ridiculous, but just so much fun to read.

I found some things about this book totally unrealistic and silly. I also didn't think the writing was very good.

But at the same time, I felt I connected with the characters and it was cozy and fun to read.

This whole book was just so unbelievable. I get that it's supposed to sound like a classic mystery with lots of mysterious clues. But no one is going to pay thousands of dollars and travel around the world and accuse people of terrible things with absolutely no evidence.

The story continues with another mystery. I thought this mystery was a little complicated and not as well done, but the characters are a bit better - not so much sillyness with the romance.

I loved this book. It completely broke me. I kept waiting for something happy to happen. And essentially it made me realize that real life isn't like that. It's messy and sad and difficult, but also beautiful.

It was fun to read, but the whole way through I felt like I had read it before. I think the problem is that it's so stereotypical. It's like a cliche and every single character kind of has one characteristic. It's fun to read, but I can't say I really connected to anyone.

This series is so cute. I like how this one completely went off topic and solved a mystery that didn't really relate to her.

This is such a stupid book. The main character fights only for indecision and everyone seems to think it's the best thing ever to fight for. There is no depth to any character and the whole story is a thinly veiled story designed to imitate Christianity.

This book started out so funny, but it got more and more serious. It has really opened my eyes to how powerful the executives at Facebook are and how horribly they have acted. I have been more and more irritated with Facebook in general, but I've never seen everything put together and it's damning.

There are three stories in this book. The first is side splittingly funny and I was convinced that this was going to be the best book ever. And then it suddenly ended. I can sort of see how it did, but it also felt a bit sudden. I wanted to get more out of that story, but it really felt just like it ended before I could.

And then came two more stories. I can't say a single thing positive about either of them. They aren't really related. And they cover topics that have plenty written about them, but both of them seem to be really superficial and both seemed to contain significant errors just to make sure the story was as dramatic as possible. I'm really not sure what I'm supposed to get from these stories.

This book is absolutely devastating. It deals with so many horrible things that you just get inured to them. I was shocked myself at how I just started to accept things as well I suppose that happened next.

I rarely like books that are written in slang, but this one was well written enough I could follow without being stressed about the language.

The only thing I didn't like about the book is that I found it hard to believe some things (a child who happens to be gay, but never goes to school somehow has extra good English, a woman who is proud, but loses everything else somehow keeps the house clean, all the kids get out of a house like that ok, etc). Maybe these things are possible, but I'm just not sure.

This book was catchy like the original and I quite enjoyed reading it, but it really did feel like the second book in a trilogy. So much related back to the first book and the ending was kind of just nothing leading into the third. Also I really didn't feel like the characters grew or were deep at all in this book. So as a basic adventure it wasn't bad and I liked the back and forth between the characters, but I just found it to be lacking compared to the first.

I didn't really expect to love this book because it's not really related to my life. But I did absolutely love it!

The writing is beautiful and easy to read. It sort of sneaks up on you how you care about the characters and you see yourself and other people you love in it.

It's really beautiful and touches on so many important things: family, living internationally (and how that interacts with family and identity), women,....

I really loved the first 3/4 of this book. It felt like it was as easy to read as a YA book, but actually had some depth and characters that were interesting. Unfortunately the last quarter really went kind of stereotypical in that teenage love is somehow stronger than anything else and everyone sort of exactly fits a stereotype. Anyway though I feel like it's a fun world and I'm curious to see what other books are like.

This was a really easy little book. Finished it in really just a few hours. It was fun and cute. But it really did feel a little like you just touched the surface of the book and it was almost advertising for the other books. It was quite superficial without really getting to know any characters deeply. So easy fun read. Might come back to the author if I need something to recover from a hard book (how I found this one).

I loved this book. It's part adventure story, part philosophy/social reflection and of course all a memoir.

This couple confronted a very difficult situation and reacted in a way that very few people do. And even if the details differ, I feel like everyone can think of some part of their life that felt like this: totally hopeless and somehow doing something random seemed to make everything ok again.

I really struggled to finish this book. It's very literary and poetic and has a ton of people to follow through different periods.

I did feel it was a bit of a kind of propaganda for Marxist ideas at times. Specifically the ending definitely goes further and further in that direction.

I think though the part that made me keep reading it was that it seemed to also explain a lot of what I am dealing with living 50 years later in a different part of Africa. But the book really talks about the hope that Africa would get from independence and the hopelessness that followed when a few black men quickly became rich, but the poor were if anything worse off. I think it helped give me a better idea of how that hopelessness rises and why people choose to act in certain ways.

I'm sick and therefore this review is a bit based on that. I wanted something simple and easy that didn't take much effort and this is so perfect for that.

It's a lot like a children's fairytale. Silly and adorable and impossible to put down. I read the whole thing in a few hours.

I loved this book. Its silly. Its a simple fairytale with all the questionable parts you always see in fairytales. But it's lovely and cute and difficult to put down. And I definitely want to read more about those baby dragons!

This is kind of a weird book with layers and layers. Definitely more complicated than your normal mystery. Still not sure I completely get everything....

It was a fun quick read, but also there were times I found it a little ridiculous.

I really wanted to like this book. In fact if I rated it on pure writing style, it would be highly rated.

But there don't seem to be books on Africa that are not 75% about the ideas of black diaspora in the US.

The name particularly pisses me off because he literally ends the book talking about pan Africanism and how it should all work together. and I'm pretty sure that the percentage of the book on the US is at least 2-3 times higher than the percentage covering French speaking Africa.

I would happily read a memoir he wrote because that part of the book is great. But the book is mostly activism. And the factual/history/learning parts of the book have no notes and when you research more it really seems to be a mix of fact and fiction.

I almost didn't read this book after the second one kind of sucked. But this seems to have gone back a bit to the history and mystery. It's fun that we are learning more about her magic now.

I'm quite disappointed. The first book was great, but this one really has devolved into a lot of stereotypes: the rich are all horrible except that one really hot guy who is the only one who can see and understand the poor....

I still like the premise, but I wish this romance and class crap would go away and I could have the historical/mystery that I liked in the first book.

I loved the history and the libraries in this book.

The hints at romance were a little irritating, but not too bad.

It was clearly a set up for the next books since there are tons of cliffhangers and set ups that are left open. But even so, as it's own book it was a fun read.

I quite enjoyed this book. It's a clever idea exploring a world where there were once lots of gods and now the world is doing without (well with fewer and weaker and illegal gods).

The book was really character focused and I really enjoyed that.