Here goes the worst book I've read this year.
Maybe I need to elaborate a bit. This book belongs to the pile of plays with cartoon characters. There was more plot in my childhood games (we also had competitions, concerts and relationships but with more thought out drama).
The first and foremost problem is the Relationship. Like how was it supposed to work? So they met, have some animosity between each other, they say something good to each other and next minute they are arguing and the man takes off. By the end on the month (which is like 9 chapters out of twenty something) they are in love for real, not just pretending. How? What? Whyy?
At some point mentions of their on-stage chemistry started making my eye twitch. And here I have the same questions. What chemistry? Show it to me. At least once. But no. There is only vague descriptions of how great they are on stage together and how they drive the people crazy. Tell you what - I didn't feel an ounce of that chemistry.
I have so many questions for the boyfriend. You don't want to anything like your father, but you literally choose the same career. And all your personality is “I don't want to be my father”? Thank god we will see that you are so much more. But the problem is that we don't see. This guy is irrational, not asking anything, just jumping to conclusions and running away.
They known each other for less than a months, then he ghosted her for eleven and a half months. His love's career kinda depended on him and he just left? What exactly did he left for? I so don't see what that girl has seen in him. From the moment she met him he gave her a bunch of promises and then literally did something else (like not proposing in the finale of their show how they both agreed to. He didn't even try to give her a heads up or explain afterwards why he didn't do it). And did I mention that he just left to spend 11 months in Canada not answering any calls or messages?
He even gets offended that the girl didn't tell him her grandmother died. YOU'VE GHOSTED HER FOR A YEAR! An here I don't even mention that they were contractually obligated to record an album together and make special song for some Christmas show. What love are we talking about here if he was going to leave her with a great financial debt if they didn't play their song? That how much he cared? That how much he loved her? Somehow that makes it hard for me to believe in their “chemistry”.
I'm glad that I wasted time only on one book in this series. The only positive thing about it is that it has short chapters. Everything else was so boooooring.
Avery - your usual special snowflake that knows it all. Hawthorn brothers - brought me some weird flashbacks of F4 from Boys Over Flowers. Why weird - because there is little in common with them, but I was reminded about that kdrama nonetheless.
As a reader, I expected to solve the puzzles along with mc, but there was nothing for me to do. All answers to any mystery or riddle was right on the next page. This novel haven't build up to anything.
I've read endings of the second and third book and I'm happy that I missed all the drama and Santa Barbara of who is who's son/daughter.
With the trilogy ending I had the same issue that I did with ready player two - the world issues don't go away if you throw money at them. Even if there are gazillions of dollars.
I just finished After I Do and just loved it so much. Often the books I read are about how people get in the relationships. While it has its moments, I often want to see what happens next. What is going on after the epilogue?
This book was one of the most perfect answers I could've only imagine. I'm so happy that I found this book in the right time to be fully immersed in it.
Я не так часто читаю про релігії, але інколи мене заносило в таку тему. Хоча здебільшого з дуже атеїстичного погляду.
Поки що це моя улюблена книга на цю тему. Мені подобається, що тут автор описав як позитивні сторони релігії (чомусь ж вона настільки вкоренилась в наше життя), так і те, що ж з нею не так. І ясно, що це з нами буде ще дуже і дуже довго.
Kingdom of the Feared was really the best book of the series. Granted, the first two books had very little pros, so that's not that big a thing to overcome. But we actually had plot here, so it was more entartaining.
But it doen't mean that there weren't any problems. The heroine is still annoying. All the description were just tell, not show. That one battle was ridiculous. And the most infuriating thing for me of all was big fat spoilerthat maine heroine had to sacrifice ALL her power to break the curse. For f*ucks sake, why is it always a woman who has to loose her power for BIG FLUFFY LOVE? and for what? So that her love interest will have WINGS? Are you for real? Of course in the last chapter she got half of Wrath's power. But is it really the best that you could've thought of?
Also that unresolved drama of Vittoria/Pride/Envy/Wife has me thinking it is highly probable that this wouldn't be the only trilogy set up in the Seven Circles. If it will be true or not, I'm happy to say good bye, to this series and move on to something else.
This book was both better and worse than the first. Somehow. I was more engaged in the first part of the Cursed Kingdom thou. At some point it got so repetitive - she kisses Wrath, they argue, she runs off, gets one new mystery (insert one long and motivational dialogue how she will solve The Mystery, that never-before-solved legend, because she is one special snowflake).
By the way, that feast in the end was a total disappointment. As with all those mysteries we encounter on our way. It is set up in a way, that we will discover something big and it really never pays off.
I will still read third book, but I do hope to be done with this series soon.
What a catastrophe. I can't even put into words. But you know what? I enjoyed it all: irritating main character, absence of any logic in characters' actions or plot, cliched (had to look up how this word is spelled) descriptions. There were also some YA hits: curling toes, unmistakenly male smells, lining eyes with kohl and who knows what else.
I don't really see why the books are separated in trilogy, because without next book already available, this one would've been a very disappointing read.
I have no idea whatsoever how to review personal memoirs.
I guess I never really thought how much kids trust their parent to want what's best for them and rarely question them. I don't believe that I've read a book that horryfied me more than this one. On the other hand it was one of the most emotional reads.