Book Reviews

3/5 ⭐️ i really feel like we could have learned more about yamasaki asami’s childhood trauma more than the bit we get at the very end. i just felt like i truly didn’t know most of the characters except for the fact that aoyama felt entitled but saw no wrong in anything he did. the book doesn’t come to a head until the very end and then the last page fell flat for me… loved getting to read the whole scene of asami trying to cut off aoyama’s feet. didn’t love the death of gangs

Knowing the spoilers for the movie holds no weight on what the book is like. Although I hated reading from Jacob's perspective and literally declared this a DNF earlier this year, this book was actually pretty fun to read. Good amount of gore, fear, and SUPER INTERESTING resolution. 4 stars for Benjamin bc he's actually a fucking avatar

This book was fucking nuts. I like the jumpy manner of the writing and I like how the realization of Tyler hits and its not world ending. Just another thing to deal with. Same pace the book has always been. 5 stars for... well I can't talk about it.

A little redundant this one, but I liked it all about the same. I think what I like most about this story is the back and forth trying to figure out what happened. DS Cross doesn't speculate so he takes us with his as he gathers the facts. we are just told outright facts about the case but we are actually involved in the case as well. My real big complaint is that I couldn't feel sympathy for our murder victim bc He literally got a 16 year old pregnant and sold performance en

Shortie story with a more relatable plot than I would like to admit 3 stars to the wallpaper

A society obsessed with physical eternity that costs you great amounts of money and consumes your entire life. Sounds familiar. This book is a wake up call to all those people equating physical youth with success and happiness. Eternity means nothing if you can't keep from becoming senile. It means nothing if you spend none of that eternity with another person. It means nothing if you are stuck in a sterile hospital with no windows and no simple joys, such as food and enterta

I cannot believe I went through that whole book expecting to not have a classic Steinbeck ending. This book follows Jim and Mac and their attempt at a strike to get fair wages for fruit pickers. Their cause was noble and they were fighting at a very large disadvantage against a corrupt conglomerate. This book was not interesting by any means because a strike can only be so interesting, but this book made me think long and hard about how things have changed and how they haven'

"To fight the emptiness, I need to love." 4 stars to the strongest woman I have read about in modern times

I have not a lot to say about this other than at first I thought the idea of this hell was kinda cool but the idea with just living with myself for billions of years makes my skin crawl. 2.75 stars for the food stands.

Solid read. Annie was horrendous in a good and bad way. This book only really gets 4 stars from me because I had to read that cockadoodie Misery's Return multiple times within the book. Ik its part of it but I was not having it. 4 stars For Paul Sheldon and his thumb

Carmilla was the weirdest character of all time and I feel bad for Laura bc she just wanted a friend but her new friend was kissing on her and like convulsing at Christian hymns and ultimately sucking her blood out of her body over the course of 3 weeks. It was an okay book, I read it in a couple of hours, not much to it. 2 Stars

This book was easy to read, had a good pace, but honestly what took away from the story for me was Gretchen. Gretchen and her fucked up pseudo boyfriend, Archie. I did not enjoy his attachment to her and I really don't like that our main plot was somehow tied up into the subplot of Gretchen. But I liked Susan. Susan was the best. Susan saved this book for me and her tie in to the main plot was unexpected but enjoyable (that sounds messed up, but it was good.) This is not one

Wow. This book is an intertwining anthology of works including letters to a lover, songs written for voice and fife, nature walks of the mentally ill, and ghost stories of utter astonishment. I've never been so attached to a plot of land before in my life. A book written in a nearly 400 year time period to have the right pacing and not lay out what year we are in is fantastic. What I really liked about this book is that our author did not tell me what happened. I was able to

The pearl is a 99 page novella about corruption when one gains money. It wasn't Kino that wanted to be like this... They should have just chucked that thing back into the ocean. 4 stars for Coyotito

on GoodReads, I gave this a 2.5/5. After sitting on it, I would really just give it a 1.5 or 2/5 ⭐️ I refuse to believe that a woman who unironically wore fedoras was getting away with murder.

4.5/5 ⭐️ ***CONTAINS SPOILERS*** I found the book to be a bit slow. Having to remember all of the different levels in this 'religion' took a bit of getting used to but, once I remembered them all, it was easy to continue. Most of the beginning, for me, was spent wondering why I was following this girl and what the point was. The story then took a turn in the dystopian direction. We learn more about our protagonist and her internal struggles with watching her recall her past a

This one was incredibly boring. A young girl grows up in a cage with 39 other women. 3 male guards watch them at all times. they aren't allowed to touch, aren't allowed to do much of anything. One day a siren goes off while the guards are unlocking the doors to give them food. The guards rush out, our narrator and the other women escape and start walking the land. They suspect its not Earth because nobody can identify where they are and they survive by taking supplies from th

I don't have many words for this book only because the content of this book is more than what I thought. A young black girl wishes for blue eyes so as not to be ugly anymore. Her mother and father grew up in unfortunate circumstances and she also is growing up in unfortunate circumstances. I really don't want to delve into it more because it makes my heart hurt. 3 stars

Oh where to start? Dorian Gray is a fine young man who is made aware of his beauty by a painter and then is poisoned by a right old git with the name 'Lord Henry Wotton' He becomes obsessed with his looks, obsessed with having the best opinions in the room and then when he decides has is done with people he has a way of... getting rid of them whether he wants them to go in a certain manner or not. This book was waaaay to long and I would like everyone to know that I would not

This book was fantastic. I don't read many detective novels on the basis that most of them are the same, the detective has baggage that fuels their work blah blah blah. This book is different because there is no emotional ties to the case. Its the case and the pursuit of the truth and that's it. DS Cross is a fantastic character, particular in his ways but comforting because he would never betray the reader's trust. The murder itself kept unwinding throughout the book at a go