Alarmelvalli
This book itself a emotional travel for me. First few portions not getting/ hard to get into dates and age things. Next few chunks felt boring such as their dating, friends chats, too much of daily lifestyle descriptions, feelings about babies. I skimmed through them. And the last 150 pages thrown at me like a magnet and gelled me throughout the end. That's the stuff. It was hard at the end. Loved it. But i feel it should be less than 400 pages. That's it
I feel, that this book is written for movies or series. the writing style is moreover follows a movie script/ screenplay fit format. The only problem for me is that the book follows too descriptive following of day after day routine in the camp, which distracts and bored me at times. And Lale-Gita's sharing of love is not that much glued for me.
3 ⭐️
Liked it. Enjoyed it. It's Neutral.
The interview scene between Annabelle and Alisha was intelligent. Loved it.
I loved the fact that this book doesn't only about cute meet fluffy romance. But also the author gave a pinch details here and there about some real business talks. That's very likeable.
Not liking it throughout. Not hating it though.
A perfect serial killer and it's also written in his point of view, which i read it for first time.
Kate with past trauma and having frequent panic attacks about the specific event who moves from London to Boston by switching her apartment to her cousin Corbin. But the swapping made her to think it's a wrong decision because of the murder from her neighbor's. What will she do?
Peter gave me the shadowy reveal of the main killer by showing the side character from the beginning of the story. They both share some same similarities. Also the author revealed the killer in the halfway of the book itself. But still kept the mystery throughout the end. There were two parts. The whole second part dedicated to the psychotic killer's POV which made me to grip to the book without dropping it down. But i felt it was over explaining oflittle little things like ‘he sat down and drank the milk'.. and after touching the happy end, author extended the pages with no need.
Another thing that bothered me was that this book was written in 2017, where social media messaging and tech was in high. But the characters communication was email messaging and writing letters. That made me wonder why?! But i enjoyed very well over all. Best mystery of 2021 for me.
3.75/5 for me !
Great story. I really loved the author's caring in delivering the multiple characters' story in perfect times.
The story was giving me the dystopian movie/series ambience all the way to the last page. But the problem is the book ended like a season 1 climax. Expected more.
There was a character who came as a enemy in the midway of the book and when he got killed, how soon the story had a happy ending!? How so! HOW. The whole flu vanished the civilisation plot was explained in the manner, as how it happened to all characters and How it's going. But i feel it missed a part where how the Flu started and a solution for the damaged society at the end.
This is the first book i read acknowledgements too at the end. That's how i wanted this to not get finished. So so so so so beautiful. I cried at the ending. Emily caught me with the first book itself. I enjoyed every page. I can easily connect with January as I'm also January born. Loved the writing style. It's not like fancy romance thing. It's very casual and written in a non clumsy way. Neat and Clean. January is funny and intelligent. She is cool and also sensitive at the bottom of the heart. I mostly find character's mind speaking is so boring. But for this book,i enjoyed most of the part. Every page is a summer feast.
And her Dad's letters to January made me sob. He is so cute with the fatherhood. My fav quotes were
“Today you were born......i would feel like I'd been born too”
“Ten fingers. Ten Toes. And even if you had none of them, you'd be the grandest thing I've ever seen “
“Being a parent feels like being a kid who someone has mistakenly handed another kid”
Beautiful right!!?
And there is no hate characters for me. I loved Sonya too. She deserved her love.
Even January's dad seemed infidelity, i couldn't hate him. He'd been a good father for her. I could say, i least enjoyed was Augustus Everett.
Part 1 slowly started to burn. I was like mostly how's Amy going to plot this!??
But i felt that from Part 2 to Part 3 was rushed. It was tiny tiny weird that how quickly Amy changed her mind to run back to Nick if she steadily and strongly planned her ghosting plan for a whole year.
But writing wise, i enjoyed Gilian's way of story telling. I was well traveled with each character's mind. The ambience of psychological thriller was so so so good. I learnt so many vocabularies and new words.
I had a hype about this book after reading ELEVEN MINUTES and Alchemist (those are my favs). This book didn't connect with me well. Things i hated in this book were;
1. I was forced to read too much of mind voice of a character.
2. Less conversation between characters.
3. The Weak investigation part.
4. Distracting characters.
5. Story struggles between Fiction and Non fiction genre.
These are my 100% personal opinions.
Last few pages only gave me a tense and focus.
I loved this actually. But still, When i chose this book, i thought it would be something like dystopian world where people in the search of survival thing. I never thought, it would be shortened in a tiny mind of America(character), who is going for a “SELECTION” to marry a prince!? A marriage?, An important thing in collapsed dystopian world
I loved how this story beautifully portraits the story from a character's mind. I loved the originality of a girl's emotions and feelings would be, if she gone through hard situation especially as a prostitute. I enjoyed and lived in every pages and lines. I don't usually like these kind of non fiction genre. But this will definitely live in my heart forever
Thanks for netgalley and the author E.J.Schwartz and the publisher for providing the book!
This book was the most beautiful contemporary book i have read in recent times.
I love the fact that the author wrote the eating disorder issue in very neat manner not by sugar coating the topic. It even helped me to learn about this disorder deeply since i don't have this disorder personally. No part in this book seems boring or exaggerated. Everything was in a flow to read in one sitting. The portrayal of friendship was the favorite for me to read.
I can't believe that this book is the author's debut. I'm more welcome to read her future works. Her writing was rich and beautiful and easy to indulge with the characters mood. The story felt so realistic. Reading the two characters point of view was so brilliant and enjoyable to read. This book hooked me in the first page itself.
If you love friendships, teenager girls, coping with illness and sad devastating story, This book is definitely for you.