bratatouille's reviews
202 reviews

Yeah, we’ve all been 23 gay; get your shit together.

There is nothing inherently wrong with this book. However, at no moment did it ever grab me. Each character is shallow and conceited in a way that isn’t entertain to follow. I was expecting a soap opera sort of mess and a fun heist. We receive neither of the above, but we do get an incredibly unsatisfying ending.

This rocked. Short and sweet. It’s got it all: a unique afterlife, the mental deterioration of an impossible task, civilization established by the ungoverned, question of religion, question of authority, and, most importantly, adventure and romance. For just over 100 pages this is a gorgeously packed pie. Big big fan. I’m going to be thinking about this for a while.

Female-focused fairytale retelling with a spotlight on how media treats women. It was entertaining enough to reach the end, but not particularly imaginative or insightful in any aspect. There’s a truly annoying amount of unjustified digs between the women in the circle and a lack of plot or drive from Will. The ending felt rushed and forced. Lots of confusion between stories. It’s difficult to revive classic tales so this story began well behind the starting line and struggled immensely to keep up. Overall, I feel like I missed the point.

This book rocked and I don’t rly like sci-fi. It’s got super interesting totalitarian dictatorship moral questions about that amount of power and if man or machine will be better at wielding it. It handles grief and vengeance! It’s got a fun Clue-esque plot! By fun and Clue I mean that the twists and turns are bamboozling. It does, in fact, have much much higher stakes than Clue does. The Sci-fi aspect in this is mostly that society has Mega Super VR. Otherwise, it’s a murder mystery. I’ve been in a huge reading slump and this was a wonderful breath of fresh air during it. The only thing!! About this book!! Is that there is seriously such a photo finish instance of underlying racism. Like within the last two chapters. We got so close folks.

Although this sets out to recount the tale of someone who fell too deeply into their own false narrative, it fails to show that the narrator learned at all from their experience. The lack of growth on the part of the protagonist means I spent four hours of my life listening to a kid moan, whine, and manipulate only to face the consequences of his actions and do it all again.

This book isn’t thrilling or phenomenal but, by god, is it entertaining. I’m a sucker for a good crime story and this is the short, sweet, getaway stuff I’m looking for. I support women’s wrongs.

I quite enjoyed my experience with this riveting historical tale. I listened to the audiobook and I’m a strong believer that the narrator breathed much life into otherwise mundane sections of the text. I found myself occasionally becoming bored with the sheer amount of information there was to uncover. Luckily, I stuck through to the satisfying conclusion. The author has crafted this compelling and intriguing mystery that unravels gorgeously. I’m glad that I got through it but I don’t think I would read it again.

Premise of this book is interesting! It was difficult to care about any of the characters or their possible outcomes. This sort of ruined the stakes for me. I understand that this is comprised entirely of monologues, but that allowed point of views to continue for entirely too long. It was interesting to hear all the different accounts of the situation. That being said, some reasonings don’t align even when given the several perspectives. This book is a book! Not amazing, not awful.