maybe it’s because everything else i’ve read has been mid but i really enjoyed this book. i thought it was super cute and it was such a fun palette clmaybe it’s because everything else i’ve read has been mid but i really enjoyed this book. i thought it was super cute and it was such a fun palette cleanser! ...more
something about this book just feels lifeless. it doesn’t feel like a story it just feels like tropes written on pages to get mindless readerzero swag
something about this book just feels lifeless. it doesn’t feel like a story it just feels like tropes written on pages to get mindless readers and booktok smut readers to enjoy. no shade but i like substance in my books.
aiden was weird to me from the jump im sorry im starting to hate when men think it’s ok to make sex jokes about girls they don’t know it’s so unattractive. summer is like emotionally not there because one minute she wanted him then the next minute she did then she didn’t then she did LIKE GIRL-.
summer’s project didn’t make since and also her reason for not liking hockey was fucking stupid. hating a whole sport because your dad abandoned you or whatever because he played hockey? they treated it like it was some huge secret until the reveal and i was like ok? plus she’s an adult like i could see if she was a teen but girlie go to therapy and work on that.
i’m not understanding why it’s 390 pages because everything seemed to be resolved around the 30% mark. friends with benefit trope doesn’t do it for me at all like there’s nothing fun! i need more substance than just sex. just read icebreaker jfc ...more
ann liang has yet to disappoint me! her ideas are so unique whilst her romances are so swoon worthy. this is my third book by her and i’ve given them ann liang has yet to disappoint me! her ideas are so unique whilst her romances are so swoon worthy. this is my third book by her and i’ve given them all 5 stars. there’s some logistics in here that kinda don’t make sense but actually i don’t care. jenna chen is so damn relatable!...more
although i’ve always wanted to go to summer camp growing up, i just feel like this book wasn’t necessarily for me? it was fun don’t get me wrong but ialthough i’ve always wanted to go to summer camp growing up, i just feel like this book wasn’t necessarily for me? it was fun don’t get me wrong but it feels like the romance was in the background. it kinda reminds me of never have i ever meets high school musical the musical the series (season 4) in a way. ...more
i’m going to give this book some grace because Naya has passed. I don’t think she talked about anything SUPER interesting in this book like the best pi’m going to give this book some grace because Naya has passed. I don’t think she talked about anything SUPER interesting in this book like the best parts were from her adult years. there are a few topics she glossed over that would’ve been much more interesting if she had expanded on it.
i think she’s very funny and a lot more like santana lopez than i thought. i had always been a big fan of hers and mourned her when she passed… talk about parasocial relationships.
there were a lot of distasteful comments in this book from a comment about someone looking like michael jackson pre/skin bleaching (feel however you want about michael jackson but he has vitiligo, he never bleached his skin) to the R slur drop and commenting about how she wishes she had “nappy hair”.
what i did enjoy about the book however is how she talked about race. i really liked when she talked about how back in the 90s Hollywood was more diverse than it is now. which is crazy bc this book came out nearly a decade again and it’s still true. she’s so unapologetic with how she talks about race....more
this was fine, it reminded me a lot of moxie which i liked but i didn’t read the description and i was looking for something more…. fun for the summerthis was fine, it reminded me a lot of moxie which i liked but i didn’t read the description and i was looking for something more…. fun for the summer yk?...more
honestly this book really just pissed me off basically in the book her best friend stop being friends with the mc after making the mc tell HER BOYFRIEhonestly this book really just pissed me off basically in the book her best friend stop being friends with the mc after making the mc tell HER BOYFRIEND that man that she was breaking up with him instead of telling him herself and then he kissed the mc and they didn’t tell the best friend. the best friend finds out but doesn’t want to be friends with her yet stays with the boyfriend? i get it’s about toxic relationships but it really frustrated me because the mc kept trying to be friends with her like girl she does not deserve you. ...more
reading a hyped booktube book years after it was hyped is so funny cus like…. this was fine? nothing about it was really hyped worthy? i really str2.5
reading a hyped booktube book years after it was hyped is so funny cus like…. this was fine? nothing about it was really hyped worthy? i really struggled to get into this book because the beginning was so slow and boring. i found the characters really flat. interesting read though, i liked the dystopian eco-city. definitely the best part of the book. glad i can finally get it off my tbr and it was… definitely someone to read in my scifi era lol...more
the first few chapters of this book was really good but then i took a break and came back and it was just really hard to get into, i felt like everyththe first few chapters of this book was really good but then i took a break and came back and it was just really hard to get into, i felt like everything was being over explained which i usually don’t mind but i was struggling with a reading slump so it just made it even harder for me to want to sit down and read. this isn’t really the books fault, i just had a hard time connecting to the story because of the break i took. ...more
one of the best ya fantasy to come out in years, it has plot while being character driven, it has a good romance and it knows how to get to the fuckinone of the best ya fantasy to come out in years, it has plot while being character driven, it has a good romance and it knows how to get to the fucking point!...more
i enjoyed the premise, it’s such a good idea and i liked that shakespeare was a character but i do think it fell kind of flat. speaking of characters,i enjoyed the premise, it’s such a good idea and i liked that shakespeare was a character but i do think it fell kind of flat. speaking of characters, i love the main character and her twin brother’s relationship but separately i found it hard to connect with them. honestly this book had too many side character for its own good, at a certain point it was hard to keep up with. it wasn’t really very fun for me, i think a lot of people who do fairy books just can never make them entertaining? which is understandable because i think the folk of the air trilogy is holly black’s best books despite her having other fairy books before. also the book had no fun romance tropes! like it had a love triangle which i enjoy but the book failed to make me care really....more