Poor Roman. He didn't deserve the end of this book and should be a crime that he did. It was a good entrance into this author but at times the characters are annoying, and the book drags. This one was better than the second and overall is a good duology if you can get past the dragging and the characters. Is it me or what is it with everyone bringing back a “dead brother”? This one does it but never really tells you he is dead you are just to assume since she never could find him. Dacre actually saved him and the brother saves Iris in the end.
I want to be as respectful to the author as possible. This book was not it for me. It was the lowest-rated book I read this year. When I am asked about books I hated that I read, this is the first one I list. It is boring. All that you keep hearing is how the nerdy kid keeps asking out a beautiful girl and she keeps denying him. She dates abusive men, steals her best friend's man, and gets SA'd because the guy sucks. Then turns to the nerd AFTER HE GETS WEALTHY, to begin dating him but what does she do? CHEATS ON HIM. Her son then snitches on her to his dad and the nerdy main character gets mad and kills her.
I was sad that the two characters didn't end up together but I got over it when I realized our main character left to make moves to put himself first while the other two (the one in the photograph and the one who tossed it into the fountain) ended up together. Overall my first story I read by Jay Bell but I'm ready to read some others of his works.
The book wasn't bad. I felt that it would've been a better end to the Jake Brigance storyline but I still have to read A Time for Mercy and Homecoming. Overall Grisham is a favorite author of mine and while I do own 90% of his books I've only read a few. I did intend to read more from this series but I got sucked into his Camino Winds series.
Overall, Sycamore Row was just an odd addition to the storyline of Jake. We meet Jake in A Time to Kill where he is a defense attorney but now we see he is forced into Probate law to handle someone's will after he dies. I will definitely be finishing the series in time here but just not sure when I am going to continue.
This was my first V.E. Schwab book. I felt that the end was predictable but that was because the King and Queen of White London seemed to be power-hungry when we first met them. In the end, the book did keep me entertained for a while as you went from London to London to return a relic to a London that no longer stood. It was very imaginative and kind of started me reading a bit more fantasy-type novels.
I read Captive Prince last year and enjoyed it. It seems like you either love or hate this series. It is a slow burn which takes three books to escalate. This one picks right up from where Captive Prince left off with them beginning the military campaign. You find out some major information that is important to the plot of book three but overall I loved this book. This series made C.S. Pacat an auto-buy author for me and I have been reading some of her other works.
Okay, What the heck happened?! This book made me a fan of Darcy Coates and she is now an auto-buy author for me. I loved this story from start to finish and I loved the characters both in town and at Ashburn. You meet Adrienne, who moves to Ashburn House after a family member dies( I believe it was her aunt or grandma). The mansion is crumbling and the town is full of rumors about it and its past owners. As Adrienne investigates, she learns more about the deaths of her ancestors at Ashburn while also struggling to figure out when she needs to keep lighting a candle on Friday night.
Towards the end, you find that the murder of her ancestors came at the hands of one of their daughters, who has since been buried on the property. She comes to life again trying to take back Ashburn but Adrienne isn't willing to give up the house she is making that quickly. It is the story of her survival while being attacked by the monster who is a former family member. Oh and for certain readers info, THE CAT DOES NOT DIE.
Much like the first book, it was good. It was interesting and I finished it in one sitting. I enjoyed returning to the world and seeing the next Quarter Quell but in the end, it is kind of forgettable (don't hate me for that) Overall, the characters were good, and it was a good second book where it didn't fall victim to an info dump. I think this was the best book in the trilogy and was ready for the change that was to come for their society.
Looking back at the book, it was a 4.75/5. It was an interesting perspective on a much larger topic. You meet three kids about to be “Unwound” (in short the society had made abortions illegal but entered unwinding, which is the act of killing the child for body parts before a certain age) each for different reasons. One is a troubled kid, another is without talent and the third is for religious reasons. You follow their adventure as they try to flee the society that wants them dead. The ending wasn't something I saw coming in a story like this but it was a good lead-up to the second book. Also there is a chapter where you see an actual unwinding happen, its just sad more than disturbing.
I waited a while to pull together all my thoughts on this. I had never read the books before this and ran through the entire series very quickly. It is a good book. It just missed something and I think it is more I was not the target audience but I feel teenage me would've still given it 3 stars. As stated it was a good book with an interesting story but it just fell flat in the end.