Laura

Importante e interessante il materiale, belle (bellissime!) le parole, ma come libro proprio boh. Una prospettiva soffocante, come un lungo annegare in se stessi. Sta povera cazzo di madre, poi.

The punishment feels a little harsh for the crime of being a straight woman in a boring marriage— I mean look at her! The poor lady can't even say “fuck” without it coming out as “puck”.

Pretty good! Up until the point where Matt ends up trapped in the box, which is where the shark reeeeally dramatically jumps.

I guess Arkady Martine's horny for architecture too huh

:)) for the gay, :(( for the eating disorder talk

genuinely yawn

Made me cry, good cry and ugly cry but at least i feel much less alone now

Much better than the first book. Still littered with male gaze, but an ignorable amount of it.

God this book was boring

First book I ever read in Dutch

I should've seen this coming. Already with the first book I started out thinking “oh, historical fiction isn't really my thing”, but once again, Kaite proved me wrong! I ended up deeply fascinated by Sarah's story and circumstances, the daily struggle to be taken seriously as a woman, and in the end, even the romance plot.
Wonderful book, would recommend this series to anyone who is into historical mysteries, but especially to those who, like me, are in it for the feminism and end up googling Victorian era clothes as a side effect.

this book broke my heart

I was absolutely blown away by this book! I'm normally not into historical fiction, but I do like mysteries so I decided to give it a go, and couldn't put it down. It's clever, it's fun, wonderfully written and kept me glued to the page until I was done

I absolutely loved this book, couldn't put it down! The romance is very well written, with plausible conflict, and even the supporting characters feel very well rounded. I'm a sucker for wlw romance and I'll suffer through terrible books for a nugget of gold but this one didn't require any effort at all <3 Well done Ashley Moore!

I wish I could give this book 6 stars! Wonderful story, funny as hell, it kept surprising me right until the end! Bonus points for Cobweb being utterly uninterested in picking a gender

I was delighted to read this Murderbot Detective story <3 It really made my day when the pre-order unlocked!

Even better than A Memory Called Empire! It took a while for me to dive back into Mahit's world, there's so many characters in this series! So many agendas and intrigue! But once arrived, being in Mahit's head felt like coming home

Finally a book that reaches the heights of The Music and the Mirror! This is the first book since MITM that truly made me fall in love with the characters, kept me glued to the page wondering what would happen next, where the stakes were sizeable and it was not at all obvious there'd be a happy ending. Right up my alley <3

I thought I loved the first Wayfarers book, but this is so much better! This book made me cry so so much, and I loved every minute of it

This book is hilarious, some kind of ready player one fantasy but about infosec and hacking culture instead of videogames.

I'd say this book changed my life but honestly it's more the ideas of MMT that changed my life. The book is fairly US-centric but does a fair job at explaining it.

This was the most infuriating book I've read in a long long time. I finished it months ago but I was to insulted to write anything about it. I'm fully aware I probably had the wrong expectations going in, but oh my god, this story is supposed to be about someone basically forced into slavery and after spending about one (1) minute contemplating the horror of it, and vaguely portraying the kind of society that made that happen, the protagonist falls in love with his captor. The book is then only interested in crafting an elaborate redemption arc for the rich asshole who's directly profiting from the slave trade in the first place, so that he and the protagonist can have their “happy ending”. All of this instead of meaningfully addressing any of the trauma, just a bunch of handwaving around the word “rape”. I read the whole thing hoping for some sort of twist or explanation, but nope. I can't believe I paid money for this.

And so NK Jemisin becomes the third woman, after Ann Leckie and Martha Wells, whose books I will just read no questions asked, because they are a-mazing.

Interesting, but it took me ages to finish it, like climbing a tall mountain (satisfying, but halfway there, drenched in sweat you tend to ask yourself once or twice: why am I doing this again?)

I waited so long for this book to come out and now that I'm done I just want to read it all over again ❤️