nico
2.0 ★
this was painful to read, the writing is so bad it hurts. i just wanted to find out what really happened to her and i had to go through the pits of hell to do it... not sure it was worth it. i found out about this book on a subreddit where people are looking for a book based on what they remember, and it seemed so interesting when i first found the post. they also mentioned they teach this in some american schools and i wanted to see what they read. worst mistake i could make. this seems like something 4th grade me would write, when i didn't know any rules of writing and mentioning things without explaining them. my god, i still can't believe i read this
4.2 ★
i just finished this and i'm crying, it's not completely about the book, but that last chapter made me really emotional. this was so great, it terrified me, it made me cry, and i couldn't stop thinking about it. the mystery, the characters, everything. i don't even know how to explain how fantastic this experience was.
i wish we could've gotten a bit more depth about all the other characters (especially the ones involved in the murder 25 years before), but i don't think the book would've worked as well as it did if we had. it really was the right amount of information for everything to slot together so nicely, but man. i wanted to see more of them
3.75 ★
this was cute, though a bit teenage-y for me. i'm quite disappointed this didn't have anything to do with the arthurian legend, but i enjoyed the world building nonetheless! it has a lot of dnd vibes especially at the beginning and then it flows away from adventures and action and is more focused on the characters, which really isn't a problem for me. i think the only problem i have with this is that it seems a bit childish/teen-ish, i really thought the writing would be a bit more mature, but it was still fine
2 ★ (and i'm being generous)
so... i had to read this for class, but i only saw that i had to read it too late so i could only read up to 200 pages, leaving me the last 40. but i thought it would be ok cause 200 pages is A LOT, the last 40 cannot be that important.... well. apparently i got it wrong and we only had to read the actual essay about the uncanny, and not the book with 5 more essays. I HAD TO GO THROUGH FREUD'S NEVER ENDING HEADCANONS ABOUT LEONARDO DA VINCI (really let the man be a quiet ace gay in peace) FOR NOTHING. i already disliked freud's psychoanalysis and ideologies or whatever it's called, but now i really do believe i despise him. this man cannot be fr. he'd have a field day with me, an asexual pan trans man, really i'd love to know what he'd say about me, or at least see him die from a stroke trying to understand what i am
3.25 ★
finally finished this. i've developed a complicated relationship with this book, i liked the world building and the characters (mostly), but i also grew tired of so many things. i started losing interest at around 20%, and i was pushing myself to finish this. it's a fine read, but i just couldn't get into it. i think my biggest problem was with tristan's character; i REALLY liked him but he was completely wasted in this plot, so much potential thrown away for what? half of the book? why was he even there, really? we didn't even get more depth, he was there to be discarded basically.
another thing that pissed me off were the romantic relationships they present us... séverin and laila are just. eh. i genuinely thought the romance was going to be between laila and zofia cause somehow their relationship is so much more defined and with many more moments of depth. whatever's going on with enrique's love life also bothers me, i'm supposed to believe he likes this or that person because of one or two specific moments? sorry, but you cannot expect me to believe any of these people have any romantic feelings towards each other (except laila and zofia, really i'm not kidding). and unfortunately that pulled me off from the story more times than i wish it did.
some moments, mostly action or heist scenes, including the book's in-world “magic” were confusing and i couldn't fully visualize them or understand how it was supposed to work, but maybe it was because i missed something or wasn't 100% interested in to register everything needed to understand
4.1★
this was adorable, i enjoyed it a lot. i wish my reviews could be way more than just “it was amazing, i loved it” but unfortunately i have a lot of trouble expressing my feelings and sensations so uhh yeah! i try though, i really do!
i really liked all these characters and oh god how great it is that they have flaws, and not just small things that you can ignore, but stuff that matters and makes them more real and have more depth and individuality, and even if they have done bad things or had some less good actions you can still like them and see how much more there is.
the plot is pretty simple, not too much angst either which makes it a more lighthearted read! i do like a more prolonged slow burn romance, and so around the 80% mark when alex and eli get together it became a bit harder to read the rest cause there wasn't much to go on, but i did enjoy how there wasn't a /big/ conflict plot-wise besides stuff more personal to the characters
3.8★
this became a bit disappointing a little after halfway through and so i stopped enjoying as much as i was before. i love knowing more about any type of mythology, and norse mythology is one of the ones j know the least so this was fun!
still wish it was a bit better, but it was cool. thank you afonso for borrowing me your book
4.3★
this was so amazing, i loved it with all my heart. the arthurian legend is everything to me, and to get a queer story based on it just makes it all better. i have nothing more to say except it was fantastic, it could've easily become one of my favorite books if not for a couple of less good stuff that, honestly, just weren't for me. and it definitely did not help the fact that everyone and their mother decided to interrupt my reading 3 times per chapter in this FUCKING HOUSE (i'm getting tired of my cousins)
3.00★
this wasn't nearly as bad as i thought it would be, which is crazy. the writing was so repetitive, and sometimes, even lacking something. the fake dating trope always gets to me, and this was no exception, but there were also a lot of things that made no sense whatsoever. either way i had fun, and even though i skipped the chapters when they were having sex, the rest was pretty torelable and i guess i did enjoy it a bit.
i really only read it because someone said it was a “mindless fun” read, and yeah i guess! it's nice if you don't think too much about it
4.9 ★
oh this one quite literally broke my heart. i don't even know what to say. i have nothing in my mind besides every single word in this fic... there are still a few things that bother me with this series but unlike most, the good outweighs the bad in a way that makes me forget there even are things i dislike about it. this and the house of black are for sure my favourites out of this saga (so far at least)
i might take a break from drarry fics now after reading 3 of these. might try something lighter to make me relax a bit and not have my heart in my mouth constantly
4.8★
ok, this one was a LOT more different from the original, unlike the first two and i gotta say i loved it. really no words to describe how much i loved this.
prisoner of azkaban is probably my favorite out of the originals, and this one just had so many things changed that i was afraid it wouldn't hit the same, but it was so fantastic! definitely didn't help that i also read this all in almost one-sitting so :D
drarry fanfics are my guilty pleasure, and fuck jkr, but goddammit harry potter fans know what they're doing with these fics. this is my new canon actually
4.20★
so uhm... here i am again i guess. i would like for everyone to look away from this review as i don't need you to know i'm reading some drarry fanfic. i actually started this a few months back, but i only picked it up again now and i really missed it.
i really wanted to read something so slow burn in terms of romance that it felt like a fic, but i wasn't finding any book that was exactly what i wanted and i remembered this existed, so here i am again!
i really love these fics, i love to see all the differences from the original timeline and some other nice details; by far my favorite things are definitely draco's relationships, i just love all the friends he has now and how these friendships are all developing!!
i will be reading more
4.15 ★
this was such an interesting read. i don't even know what to comment on, the writing some times threw me off cause i didn't really understand the intention of some sentences, but holy crap the story was insane. when we got to the end and finally all the pieces came together... my god i was amazed
4.0 ★
this was so cute, i really really liked it. sometimes it felt like some football related aspects were a bit off and it confused me a little bit, but i don't know if it was for the way they were written or because the author just didn't fully understand them.
i loved the characters and the plot, i wish some relationships were a bit more developed and even some more depth to some characters. some of the few things i didn't enjoy very much was the implication of mason and grace possibly getting together, and the fact that sebastian and willie never got to talk or just have a deeper conversation. the writing was repetitive at times, but none of these bothered me TOO much
4.1 ★
oh, this was so good, i saw so many people saying they were disappointed by the ending, but i liked it! there were soms stuff that felt like they could've been more developed, and i wish cauler and mickey had better communication on page, as in i wish we could see more conversations between them about their issues.
either way, this was adorable, and it could've been higher if it wasn't for those small choices that just weren't for me. i really enjoyed it, and i'd recommended this to more people
3.0 ★
this was ok until about halfway through, and then i lost all interest. i think some of the other reviews explain it better, there was a lot of stuff i didn't particularly enjoy about this, but i didn't dislike it per se. some parts are way better than others, and that's why i gave this 3 stars instead of 2.5, but at the end of the day, it wasn't great, just ok!