Marine
Not as addictive as Sydney and Ridge's relationship, but still very cute. I especially liked the fact we could relive a few moments from Maybe Someday from a new, completed point of view in this novella. Plus these characters are so heartwarming, you can't feel bad when you're with them.
This sequel was too short and still efficient, too cute and still sexy and funny as hell. I liked it a lot.
I don't even think I'm able to write a proper review right now, because- well, you should look at my face right now. I'm not a mess. A mess would be ridiculously beautiful next to me. But I'll try my best.
I can't even express how much dedication I've put into this book. I was with them, Lou and Will, madly, and I still am, and I always be. And I love but I hate that feeling I have when I think about this novel now, because my heart is crumbled. I hate the fact that my bedsheets are actually drowning into my tears right now. I've never cried that much while reading a book in my whole life. I'm not even exagerrating.
I haven't even cried that much when Dobby died, and trust me, that means something.
This book is a must-read. The topic is tough, deep, disturbing, and definetly argument-worthy. The characters are pretty much unique and appealing, and the story is so sad yet so hurtfuly beautiful it'll quickly bring you tears. Read it now. You'll be mad but it'll worth it.
I can't even figure out how I feel when the movie will come out, but now that I've read the book, I've got unattainable expectations. Just give it to me right now, I'm already in the mood. (yup because I'm still crying, what else can I do...)
The final chapters killed me certainly. When Louisa comes in Switzerland and finally respects Will's decision, I was so broken. This is true love. As much as his family, by the way... but both of them, I mean... they are the epitome of pure, real, dedicated love. This is the kind of lovers every writers should write about. The epilogue was perfect. Perfectly painful, but the kind of pain that makes you smile at the same time.
The author wants to make us all mad, furious, sad af, heartbroken and empty, but also deeply touched by something you can't stop thinking about. This is one of the best book I have ever read, even if it destroyed me. And maybe that's because it destroyed me that much that I loved it. It made me feel something I haven't predicted at all.
P.S. : I don't want to thank the people who recommends me this book when I asked something light and fun. I hate you, forever and ever.
P.S 2 : I JUST SAW THE MOVIE TRAILER AND IT SEEMS TO BE SO GOOD OMG I'M CRYING.
You can tell I'm weird, I won't blame you. But that's the truth even if that's what too fucked up for my brain : I've got attached to these two idiots. I've got attached to their fights and their reconciliations, to their screwed up love and to their global screwed up life.
But the point is I shouldn't. I shouldn't have been attached to these books. The morality was dangerous in the first tomes and the characters made every possible mistake. That's why I'm kinda ashamed by the fact I enjoyed After more than I should.
Ironically, their flaws was a way to discover their hidden strenghs and that's the only reason I've been through this five volumes. I love “sun after storms” stories, I love witnessing redemption and realization. That's something I was aware of during my read: why I liked these series so much was because they actually spread forgiveness. Anytime, until the end. Always and mostly at the end. That's what I liked. That's a special value to me.
I don't care about the fact that was a fanfiction before : a story is a story. Most fanfiction writers won't write a book and lots of books will never be published. That's the way things work. And even tho that's far from great litterature (you won't be surprised), I don't want to make any discrimination about it. After is definetly an intriguing saga who made me come out of my safety zone in a unexpected and enjoyable way.
J'ai encore un peu de mal à me soustraire à l'univers tellement j'en ai été insatiable. J'en suis toujours. J'ai pris un plaisir monstre et inédit à suivre les aventures de Mare, héroïne maudite qui ne peut compter que sur un miracle, une étincelle de bonté là où tout n'est que conflits d'intérêts, guerres et trahisons. La guerre s'est écoulée jusqu'au caveau des os de mon corps, de mon cerveau, luttant pour ne pas pousser de petits cris de surprises dans mon bus blindé. Les cinq étoiles sont méritées !!
P.S : Cal <3
Je devais parler de lui.
The contract is so perfectly fullfilled. I really feel empty AND heartwarmed right now. This is the end, officially. No. Marissa please write more of them, please... especially with such an ending, omg.
I was a little disappointed because we have no Cresswell/Jacinter scenes in SOSN? But then actually, that's fairly understandable. That's Scarlet et Wolf's wedding and Cinder and Kai are basically the main characters, so... :) (the proposal omg... the proposal!!)
But, oh damn. I give it five stars anyway because I love them so much and I want to cry because I'll miss them.
Really really much. [insert baby cryin gif here]
Long life to the most awesome lunar/earthen crew ever.
Les Disparus du Clairdelune est une œuvre d'art à sa manière, une petite pépite enchanteresse qui reprend les codes prometteurs du premier tome. Comme on pouvait s'y attendre c'est toujours aussi truculent d'action et de fantaisie. Ça bouge, ça aime, ça vole, ça virevolte, ça s'inquiète, ça enquête et ça nous laisse pantois (et officiellement, irrévocablement, pour toujours amoureux de cet univers).
Christelle Dabos nous offre là une deuxième partie de roman digne des meilleurs conteurs et impose avec la plus grande finesse la situation des deux protagonistes, Ophélie et Thorn. Ces deux-là sont vraiment uniques en leur genre et c'est à-peu-près le cas de tous les éléments du récit. C'est le maître mot par ici : unique. Tout est cousu de fil main par l'auteur et ça fait du bien, oui messieurs, de lire un livre sans avoir à se remémorer quelques similitudes avec une autre oeuvre.
C'est un OVNI lustré à l'or pur et je vais trouver le temps long avant de pouvoir songer à lire la suite, ça je vous le dit...
Goddamn it was terrific. And cute, so very cute. It was a satisfying ending.
The last sentence tho... it broke my heart because I kinda feel betrayed, you know. But in a kind, harmless way. It's so weird. I'm the kind of girl who likes when everything is truly established. And I've been getting so attached to the characters that I want to know their real names, even if that's something ridiculously abstract and the concept of the novel is brillant and I don't want to change anything. Now it's said. :)
All these years I've travelled far away from the Peter Pan phenomenon, from Disney to the numerous movies inspired by the novel (the only thing I remember is that great attraction in Disneyland Paris where you're surrounded by stars and you fly in the Jolly Roger - but I think I digress). I still don't understand how I could have avoided such a masterpiece at school, or how nobody ever told me before to put down my cartoons and go read something that important.
Everything involved here is so beautifuly approached that I'm still emotional trying to explain myself. This is the kind of story which can follow you decades after, not only thanks to the writers' extraordinary writing style but also because of its poetry and the scope of its morality.
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
One of the cutest love stories I've ever read. And, let's be honest, that's actually the first time I've experienced such a read. I mean, is it not so great to follow the storyline of a book while jumping on their bed because of these songs - these great songs featured in the book ?! I felt like I was into their flat, witnessing growing love and breaking my poor one. I've never felt a book so close to bloom into realness and that was beautiful.
When you read a book, that thing you're looking for above all is to perceive the whole potential a few words can bring you into. In Maybe Someday, not only your concrete sight is boiling but also all the feels music is wiling to give you. That's why I always loved listening music while reading. And here, knowing that fictional elements such as these songs are brought to life - I don't know, the idea is so simple and yet I feel like we're entering a multiplied, sensational new kind of reading.
Regarding the story and as an aficionado of complex/impossible love, I surely enjoyed it as much as I could. Eventually, that was my first Coleen Hoover book but you guess it won't be the last...
P.S. : Oops, I've forgotten something important. Warren, YOU'RE MY BOSS.
Seriously: Snow White is the silliest character I've ever met. How could you be so naive despite all dwarves' warnings? And MOST OF ALL : how could you consent to marry someone you knew for a second only because he tells you that he has feelings for you? Are you that narcissic? (that prince is also very dumb since he never talked to her - he was just barely looking at a dead mannequin?!)
Ew. Next.
Me in two words after reading COHF : SO EMOTIONAL.
I love everything about this end (though i hate the e- word) and everything was just GREAT. What I really enjoyed was that there was in fact plenty of references about the four Cassandra Clare series : that was a bit like a super remastered crossover series, haha. So enjoyable.
Eventually, The Mortal Instruments worked like a painting : all you ever see out is dot and shapes, while you learn from the details and the dots and shapes finally become incredibles stories and memories. This is that metaphor that makes me believe this series is so much more than the average : you build your imagination in such an amazing and efficient foundation here. I really can say now that City of Heavenly Fire was by far one of the best creative rune of its writer.
And Clace, Malec, Sizzy. They rock so well we may think the world is trying its best to fit them.
May we meet again very soon, buddies <3
: UTTERLY PERFECT.
One of the best, cleverest, most beautiful books I've read so far. I have no words, I'm in love with every bits of those words, of those characters, of that universe. The amount of romantism out of here is on a whole new level in my opinion, and it's just magnificent. You can't predict the plot as much as it is well rounded, so beautifully thinked. Now I'm frustrated to know that there are no more to read about Tessa, Will, Jem and the others because they've become my babies and I don't want to leave them and... EWWWW HUG ME. \o/
“I have come to understand something about novels,” Tessa said.“And what is that?”“They are not true.”
Ave atque vale,
I have no freaking words to describe this book?
OH. MY. GOD. It was by far the best of the series. And if you haven't liked the first ones, I bet this one will change your point of view overall.
This was... woah. GIGANTIC. My love for the characters just got stronger and stronger and I'm so so happy to find out that Jace and Clary weren't actual siblings, even if I already knew it. And I'm soooo in love with the sexy vampire version of Simon.
CASSANDRA CLARE YOU'RE MY FIREWORK
DNF, 17%
I tried. I really tried.
First, I liked it. Actually, I was intrigued by the universe. All was made to be good. And then... I don't know what happened, I swear. I haven't succeed to enjoy the writer's style. Too sophisticated to me, maybe. The more I went into the book, the more I was lost. Literaly. Maybe I'll continue this book later. I'll probably give it another try when my mind will be ready to fit such an UFO. But now... no. Sorryyyy.
