i need a time travel machine to go and beg my 12-year-old-self to please release me from this hell. i cannot do thisi also have a heart full of hatred
i need a time travel machine to go and beg my 12-year-old-self to please release me from this hell. i cannot do this anymore. these books keep getting worse and worse each year.
you go back and re-read phase one and it's fun and silly and engaging and fantastic and then you go re-read phase two and it's like uhhhhhhh...okay? and then you read phase three and the drop in quality is so bad, i'm numb to it at this point. also i swear he keeps reusing skulduggery-banter-phrases from the previous books? anyway. i hope by phase 4 he will have killed all the characters off so that it's just blank pages. bet the e-book will still cost 20 bucks even then.
TL;DR: it's pissing me off that goodreads says this is the 18th book. it's not, it's the 17th. stop counting the audiodrama as part of the main series??...more
“I’m not permitted to dress you; I’m not permitted to undress you,” Harding murmured. His lips brushed against Christopher’s in not quite a kiss. “Wha“I’m not permitted to dress you; I’m not permitted to undress you,” Harding murmured. His lips brushed against Christopher’s in not quite a kiss. “What am I permitted to do, my lord?”
it’s not a bad book and it reads quite nicely, i just don’t think it’s memorable at all. the characters fall kinda flat, the plot doesn’t inspire much excitement, and the love story is only there because it’s a romance book.
i do love me my trans regency and i wish there was more of it so i‘m glad this exists and that i could read it but i would also love to feel more than just an eh-*shrugs*...more
i have never been interested in reading i, robot but my boyfriend keeps gushing about it so there was only one logical thing to do: finish it before hi have never been interested in reading i, robot but my boyfriend keeps gushing about it so there was only one logical thing to do: finish it before he does
in a very rare turn of events and i say this as your biggest sci-fi hater, robot hater, and most importantly hating-everything-i-read... hater...: this was fantastic
not only is it amazingly well written, and damn it is, we should only let isaac asimov write books from now on (pls don't ruin this for me by saying something stupid like "he's dead" - i would be devastated), asimov also managed to make *gag* robots *gag* interesting *gag*. further, it also features a bunch of loveable characters that i all love and it's so goddamn entertaining i could read like nine more books based on the same premise in a... hmm... let's call it "robot series"
boyfriend: you should work on actually liking books
me, about to write a mean review: :|
there's just no good romance novels out there anymore. i want tboyfriend: you should work on actually liking books
me, about to write a mean review: :|
there's just no good romance novels out there anymore. i want to feel heartbroken and upset and throw up at least two times and then also feel giddy and happy and throw up two more times - is this really so hard to achieve. instead i'm constantly left feeling lukewarm and low-key bored.
the couple just felt very forgettable and tbh i think their conflict was stupid. there was no need to break up. i understand that you have to suspend disbelief but come on. nothing substantial really happened between the two.
but, the thing about second-chance romance (the best romance genre) is that even when they aren't good, they can never be bad (unless, they are written by colleen hoover, then they can indeed be very bad), so ... three stars....more
stupid, boring, ridiculous and repetitive with a random, nonsensical plot twist thrown in for shock factor - so the same as any freida mcfadden book. stupid, boring, ridiculous and repetitive with a random, nonsensical plot twist thrown in for shock factor - so the same as any freida mcfadden book. 0 stars....more
“When I see him standing there, I feel as dismayed as I always do at how normal he looks, because surely there should be something—pointed ears or a p“When I see him standing there, I feel as dismayed as I always do at how normal he looks, because surely there should be something—pointed ears or a pair of horns—to warn people of his evilness.”
in my thriller era, i say as i one-star the fiftieth book this week
not sure what i was expecting when i went into this but i was at least hoping for it to be better which.. how silly of me.
my main problem with this book is that it exists.
sorry, dumb joke.
my actual main problem with this book is the writing style. why the fuck is it so clinical. i have read textbooks that had more emotions.
my second problem is that it’s boring. i’m sorry but it is. it’s so straightforward - in a bad way - and the villainy is almost comical. where was the drama in this? i mean the wife was certainly traumatised but i wasn’t and not to be at the centre of the universe but what’s the point of a thriller if i, as the reader, don’t feel any thrill??? this point also brings us back to the lack of emotion; i want to be at the edge of my seat, eyes plopping out while reading a thriller!!! is that too much to ask? apparently yes.
thirdly, going back to the villainy being almost comical: at one point the husband was so engaged in a five-thousand step plan to make her day (not her life, her DAY) more miserable and i was sitting there like, jesus, so much effort, and for what? this man has a full time job as well, like where is he taking the time from??
and then there’s the ending that everyone was raving about and it’s not even much of an ending at all. it’s not like esther helping her get away with murder is much of a revelation - her role was clear from the beginning.
and then it just abruptly ends. and i think it was supposed to be one of those end scenes that thrillers sometimes have where you read the last sentence and go “nooooooo :oooooo” and i have never seen an author fail at something so badly....more
sometimes audiobooks are just background noise until they throw something unimaginably sad at you. unfortunately, some continue to be background noisesometimes audiobooks are just background noise until they throw something unimaginably sad at you. unfortunately, some continue to be background noise even after that. ...more
”Sometimes it’s not the people that change. It’s the mask that falls off.”
I love that Kindle shows you which quotes were highlighted by many people ca”Sometimes it’s not the people that change. It’s the mask that falls off.”
I love that Kindle shows you which quotes were highlighted by many people cause 876 readers saw this basic ass phrase and were like „oh yeah, that’s it, that’s the good stuff“
I judge thrillers based on how nonsensical the plot (twist) is and how engaged I was during the reading experience and while everything about this made sense it was just…meh. If the other three books I’m reading simultaneously weren’t even MORE boring, I would have not bothered with this. But alas.
Also I was very annoyed by the choices one character made at the end cause they were just plain stupid and the ending felt rushed but I can respect running out of steam and desperately wanting to end something - it’s how I feel about this review....more
i mean, i guess it ties in at the end and it sort of makes sense but it’s really not that exciting and there watoo many characters, too much going on
i mean, i guess it ties in at the end and it sort of makes sense but it’s really not that exciting and there was never a moment where i felt transfixed, glued to the page, anxious to uncover the mysteries before me
it’s also very predictable, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing until it is a bad thing. you read the word twins in the summary and you know you’re in for the most tropey thriller trope of all time. is this a spoiler? i guess, but also, who cares.
bottom line, it’s not the worst thriller i have ever read and at least Torre isn’t horrendously bad at putting words on page like some other popular thriller writers are (if you know you know and if you don’t you’re beyond help anyway), but is this worth reading? hell nah. ...more
”I was thinking that I want to live in a world where everyone has to choose their gender.“
me, in the bookstore that i frequent at least three times pe”I was thinking that I want to live in a world where everyone has to choose their gender.“
me, in the bookstore that i frequent at least three times per week about to buy a book that i definitely do not need: “no, you don’t understand, i simply NEED to have this one”
unfortunately, i didn’t enjoy the titular story but “Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones” slaps so hard i will think about it for years. ...more