Girls of Paper and Fire
2018 • 385 pages

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Average rating3.5

15

I knew I should've known better than to be taken along on certain people's hype train about this book. Uninteresting, shallow, stupid characters, flat villains, and an equally ‘eh' storyline that is just ... boring. The main character pissed me off with how much of a horrific dumbass she was, and all her glares/grumbles/whining/complaining/snarky comments are just cringe-inducing (apparently we're meant to find her funny or endearing or strong, what in the actual EFF). As an Asian person of similar ethnicity to the writer as well as the characters in this book, I sometimes want to have stories that feature those “like me” but I do NOT want them written with such amateur skill. It's fucking embarrassing.

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