nico

4.4 ★

mystery on a boat with sapphics? amazing perfect excellent i loved it! i wish some relationships had been better developed, and since this was all in the span of a week, everything had to happen rather quick; which was mostly fine, the pacing was easy to follow and immersive, but some things ended up not clear enough because of it

3.7★

we heard this in class and although it was fast, i'm so used to hearing audiobooks at least 2 times faster so i was almost falling asleep, the sounds were so soothing as well. the bell was annoying, though

2.2★

i don't even know what to tell you, the writing was so poor and there were so many mistakes in the text. the mystery was ok, but then they reveal who it is in the most underwhelming way and just don't mention it ever again; and then 2 or 3 chapters away from the end they retell the information that made you realize who the killer was, but it's different ? and on the last chapter there's a sort of red herring for you to think it's someone else, but turns out it's actually who they first revealed it was.... and afterwards, just to make the matters worse, on the epilogue there's this sentence that is supposed to be a joke, but hints at the possibility that the person they caught isn't actually the killer, even though all clues point to it. with all this said, you can't really know if it really is that person, because there are just so many mistakes and stuff that gets changed throughout the book that you don't even know if these are "hints" that it's not that person, or just bad writing and editing.

i have to add though, even if it wasn't explicit, the subtle misogyny i felt while reading this... wow... all characters suck, yes, but not enough for me to justify the hate towards the women as something other than misogyny.

2.3★

i guess i really am starting the year with this book... listened to this audiobook at like 3.3x speed which is crazy even for me. i already knew the plot since i watched a 2-hour video on youtube of someone retelling the book, but i technically didn't read it so i couldn't log it. and now i can... yay, i say with the straightest most uninterested face ever. don't even know what to tell you about this. it's bad.

4.4★

loved this book, and this whole trilogy! i genuinely recommend this to everyone because everything is just so amazing.

i was a bit taken aback when alan betrayed them, and was scared that it wouldn't be well developed, but it turned out ok. though betrayals to me are always very difficult to do right

and i expected the relationship between alan and hawthorn to be done a bit differently, and have more of a slow burn that the ones from the previous books, but i didn't dislike it. i'm just not a fan of these types of relationships overall (even if it was done nicely in this case)