Alona

З цією книгою у мене точно не було любові з першого речення. І навіть не з сотого. Перша половина книги була непростою. Від головної героїні я явно була не в захваті. Та й якісь часто повторювані описи чи кліше теж спочатку дратували. Але якось сторінка за сторінкою все це вже почало мені подобатись і навіть дуже подобатись. Тепер от ще наступну книгу авторки доведеться читати

Leave the World Behind was a huge disappointment for me. The writing was confusing and made it difficult to discern who was speaking. Additionally, I found the unnecessary sexualization of certain elements in the book to be off-putting. While the premise of the book had meager potential, it didn't deliver at all.

The book's portrayal of a city-wide blackout as a catastrophic event seemed unrealistic given recent events, such as the electricity shortages in Ukraine due to multiple massive rocket attacks by Russia.
The main character even didn't suffer from it, because all they experienced so far was not working cell service. Their fear just didn't make any sense at all. There were so many illogical moments in this book, that it drives me crazy. The city is 20 minutes away from them and they are afraid for some reason to drive there. Why? I don't know. Their son's teeth started falling out and they didn't get him to a doctor. Like why? For the last third of the book the adult characters were screaming that they are PARENTS and they did nothing? Because they were scared to go to the city? I don't believe that at all. You get over yourself when you fear for someone else, especially your kid.

The most annoying thing for me is that the charecters didn't even want to find out what happened. Oh I guess that the author just coundn't come up with what so catastrofic had to happen. What a great way out.

Overall, I didn't appreciate the lack of effort and editing put into this book. I have a strong impresion that the author has a strong dislike of Barack Obama and just want to write his fantasy of president hiding in the bunker. There was no logic or resolution in the book whatsoever.

Overall, I had mixed feelings about The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse. While the plot was okay, I didn't find it particularly enjoyable or gripping. The short chapters were one aspect I appreciated, as they helped to keep the story moving along.

Although I wasn't exactly on the edge of my seat while reading, I found the isolated setting of the hotel and the mysterious events that were unfolding there to be intriguing. However, I wasn't fully invested in the characters and their motivations, and the resolution of the plot didn't quite live up to my expectations.

That being said, I must mention that the Ukrainian edition of the book is stunning, with its yellow colored edges adding a special touch to the overall aesthetic of the book. While I'm glad I read The Sanatorium, I don't think I would be interested in reading any further books in the series.

No substance at all, very little Bachelor and a bit boring plot. But that was good rest after my previous books.

Well, the main character is 16. And she is very shy. I can relate to he shyness, but at some moments I wanted to scream at her to do something.

I should've read this one sooner. But I'm glad that I did now.

It was very consise and thoughtful overview of mutual influences between a number of countries. There were a lot of thing about russia, that I never considered before. Maybe if I did, the 24th February 22 was less of a surprise for me.

Very cool book. I loved the concept of scrived things. I am still a bit confused about the world and how it looks, but I hope to finish this trilogy soon.

Ця книга викликала в мене суперечливі емоції. З однієї сторони вона мені сподобалась і я дуже хотіла її читати далі. Але в результаті я трохи розчарована. Я прийшла за теоріями змови. У назві в нас теорії змов. Я прийшла почитати чому люди їх створюють, чому в них вірять і як вони впливають на наш світ. А отримала максимально поверховий огляд, де автор зупинявся посеред цікавих моментів і писав, що далі про це писати не буде, бо тоді ця книга буде дуже великою чи ще якесь виправдання.

Ще одним великим моментом, який мене розчарував, є точка зору автора, що українці менш конспірологічні, ніж інші люди. Можливо, тут вплинула бульбашка автора, бо може його оточення і менше піддається цьому впливу. Я ж якось в моєму житті стикаюсь з протилежним, і чого тільки варті віра деяких людей, що перебої з електропостачанням було, бо то влада експортувала енергію в Європу ( а не тому, що росія знищувала енергетичну інфраструктуру), впевненість моєї тітки, що війну в Україні зробив Папа Римський і як вишенька на торті - наклейка fake pandemic на дверях готелю в Карпатах, в якому я була в березні.

Графічні романи не часто мені трапляються, але цей дуже сподобався. Є в цьому щось дуже серіальне.

That was so out of my comfort zone. I hope I will never read about cockroach in the anyone's ear ever again.

Awesome first book for bookclub with my friends. All of us even finished it and we had a lot to talk about.

As for the bookclub in the book - I wanted more from it. It was always somewhere in the background, always mentioned but rarely directly involved. The whole book had a bit weird plot structure. There was a lot of overshadowing and reader had no doubts about who the vampire was. But he was kinda the obvious monster. The main nightmare were lives of the women which looked more or less perfect but were very far from it.

Well, this book did provide me with the happiest of all possible endings, when the MC said that she wants a divorce. I hated her husband so much I couldn't understand how she can be with him in the same space. Especially when he opens his mouth. The murder should've happend sooner and to Carter.

I had hard time remembering that I'm reading a book and not a magazine interview. Which is great. I like being confused.

I have a mixed feelings about this one. I guess, that I just feel a bit tired of this series. Well, the last book was especially long. I felt as if I was done with this characters in the middle of the story, but they still had so many things to do and I was not just here for that.

Overall there was so much drama in the series, but very little of it felt like it had real impact. All characters wished to be good characters so strongly, so any conflict just felt flat. Especially, I couldn't understand the need for secrets in the friend group. In regards to that, it was not so believable to me, that the adults, that were in the heart of things in the Infernal Devices would just stand by when all of this was going on.

Another thing that was quite weird is some of the attitude to certain things. In the Mortal Instruments some characters were gay and it was such a big no-no with shadowhunters. But here we are in last hours, just one hundred years prior and we have 5 openly gay characters and almost everyone is super okay with that. This feels like a general plothole for the timeline.

I've seen couple of reviews with disagreement about certain character death and I agree. That character was done dirty. Their death was just skipped over for the plot and it really felt like nobody cared so why should I?

Now I see, that I mostly concentrated in the negative things. It wasn't all that bad, and there were some really nice moments. I have no regrets reading this series.

That ending was the most infuriating thing ever. I am fuming!
I forgot about the ridiculus barriers Cassandra Clare puts between the characters.
SO good that I started reading this series when the final book was already out because otherwise it would've been were unhealthy for me.

I would advise skipping this review as I'm highly biased. The third book of chronologically previous series - The Infernal Devices - was the first book that I've read in English. It holds a lot of sentimental value for me.

Chain of Gold follows a lot of offsprings of familiar characters. It always amazed me how in such series everyone has offspings. But I may give it a pass here fot the time period sake and Shadowhunters do tend to die fairly quickly.

This book did managed to return me to the old good days even if for a bit. Ths feels like a very familiar teen drama with something always happenning. Did this book need to be that long? Probably not. But it was fairly entertaining with constant action all over the place.

I can only complain for the suspense beeing a bit too open. As a reader, we see that something is wrong with some characters way too early, but other charecters don't (I'm starting the second book and they still don't see it). It is a bit tiring.

I really liked this story. There are some good turns and I enjoyed the ending as well.

Ця книга одна з тих, з якими з часом зживаєшся. Траплялось багато моментів, які були трохи кострубатими, але чим далі, тим веселіше це все ставало.
Можливо, коли третя книга вийде українською, я навіть дочитаю цю серію. Але це не точно.

I expected more after hearing a lot of good things about this series. This one is just a weird one for me with very few at least somewhat likeable characters.

Це була зовсім не весела історія. А чим далі, тим вона ставала темніша і темніша.

I've just loved the way this mystery is written. Only emails, messages and articles. It's very hard to put down.

DNF at 48%.

What is a point of writing a long book if nothing in it has any substance? Why? Why would you do that?

I am so sorry for the time that I've spent reading this book. That many 5-star ratings fooled me.

It was ok. But the author tried to write very clever people and they turned out to be pretty stupid.
That book started to be actually interesting only after the character discovered that he was not the first. But that was like last twenty pages, so not very helpful.

Мені так подобається читати про те, що я ніколи не буду робити сама. Я на Еверест і так не дуже збиралась, але після цієї книги я б туди не пішла, навіть якби мені за то платили.

Я дивилась кілька документалок про підйом на вершини вище 8000 м. Але тут це сприймається зовсім по іншому. На відео всі зазвичай дуже захоплені і енергійні, навіть коли дуже втомлені. В книзі було набагато більше відвертості про те, як насправді людина почувається на такій висоті ці два місяці (спойлер: дуже недобре).

Сама трагедія того, що відбувалось тим і трагічніша, що це було не якесь природне лихо (лавина чи якась особливо холодна погода незвична для тих місць), а просто сукупність маленьких рішень, які накладались одне на одного і привели до того, чого привели.

Я і головний герой всю книгу знаходились на різних швидкостях розуміння того, що відбувається. І на жаль, я зачасту була попереду.

I'm glad I finished this series. I loved it. Maybe I have some questions after the ending but I'm happy to answer them myself.

So far it is my favorite of the series.