galacticvampire's reviews
350 reviews

This book is beautiful. It shows the core of what being a Jedi was like, a multitude of different ways they impacted lives. The plot was interesting, specially the more action-driven Depa and Mace's povs.

Even then, I think it would've been a more tight story if we had fewer narrators. The idea of letting us see the perspective of each High Council member plus other surrounding characters like Qui-Gon helped shape and give life to the institution, but it made for a clunky narrative.

I overall like the characters and their dynamic, but the premise was way too fucked up for me to really get into the couple and the resolution was kinda underwhelming.

This is not a romance, and the story is better for it. 

Honey Girl explores what comes after success. How to face the world after your plans end, and ultimately, fall apart. It's the story of a black queer woman trying to navigate life and academia, and overcoming perfectionism.

For all that, the book is beautiful. And also why the end isn't really satisfying. It was the ending of a romance. It's cute, but doesn't really works to wrap up a story that wasn't really about that. I'd much rather have had a scene with Grace's father, for example.

If you have any interest in dinosaurs and fossil hunting, this is the book for you. It's fun, impressively deep and descriptive, and super engaging. It makes the story interesting without being fictitious and now I really want to visit the Smithsonian.

Reforged has a nice premise and interesting characters, but it doesn't seem sure what it wants to be.

Most of the plot revolves around the political turmoil and coup around the new king, but the conclusion and main pov is focused on the romance, so I ended up unsatisfied on both ends.

The romance could've been awesome, but they didn't have as much time developing together for me to care that much. I was actually invested on the plot, but then the conclusion was so rushed it got me wondering if it wasn't a standalone after all (it is).

It was fun, but really not memorable.

This book is so adorable and the atmosphere so whimsical that it made me crave read the original Pride and Prejudice. The romance is great and the writing was very natural without sounding out of place in a historical fiction.

I absolutely love the care with writing a trans character who's not out. Whenever Oliver had to present as Elisabeth you could really feel the wrongness of it all, and the narrative never treated the character any different than when he was his real self.

I have to say though, this Darcy is miles nicer than any other version of him lol. It didn't bother me much because that wasn't the point but it really took out the Pride part of the book.

As a dinosaur lover, this book was incredible!! It's a beautiful ode to the premise of Frankenstein, with the spin of an unexpected setting.

I felt anger along with Mary and fell in love with the creature. I was fascinated by the development and annoyed by her waste of space husband.

My only gripe is how much this book is marketed as sapphic when that's barely even there. The fact that it's such a strong story advocating for women in academia should be front and center, because it executes it beautifully.

I'm so concerned about this book that I can't even properly understand how this happened. How did Rick's editorial team let this be published like this is beyond me. 

First of all I need to get this out of the way: I know I'm not the target audience for this anymore. But I read the Apollo series just last year and enjoyed it fine so the blame can't only fall to that. 

The writing style is redundant and soppy, far from the charming voice the entire universe has. Even if the other structural problems stayed, I still think a decent prose could've saved this book to be at least fun instead of a total drag, since there are a lot of elements that had potential. 

There are also several pacing, characterization and plot problems:
 • Nico is completely another person.
 • I can barely understand why or how these two love eachother because in a full year they don't even know basic stuff about one another.
 • Will is extremely one note.
 • Nico is portrayed as the person who is grieving Jason the most besides Piper.
 • They're trying *really* hard to get cookie points for representation instead of just... letting the representation represent (although I can understand the importance of spelling it out these things in MG books because it might be the first contact with the idea, it was too heavy handed.)
 • It had warnings, in caps lock, about every DREAM SEQUENCE. Every. Time. It ruined the flow and the mistery vibe of the dreams. (Also. They dream so much??? Asleep all the time. Lazy ass way for exposition.)

 • There are way too many explicit pop culture references that will age like milk (NICO MAKES A JOKE ABOUT LIL NAS X GOING TO HELL)
 • and, somehow, they let, I swear to god, Nico say Percabeth on page. 

My annoyance aside, I still had a really hard time understanding the story here. Bringing Bob back is the most coward backtrack ever, as much as I love him. The villain has no motivation, not even taking over the world. This is character-focused while refusing to go deeper on issues, making it the most sanitized installment in the universe. The "plot-twist" in the end doesn't really explains anything. 

Overall, very disappointed, because Nico was easily the most interesting and complex character Rick Riordan ever created and he deserved better. 

(I have a strong inkling Mark Oshiro was part of the fandom, was a fanfic writer at some point, and did not reread the books to write this)
 

What to do when experiencing depression symptoms?
a) visit a therapist
b) perform a blood ritual

You'll never guess which was chosen.

The plot was fantastic, the characters super interesting, and I actually managed to like both of them on the same level, which is a challenge in dual povs.

The only downside was the cheesy endind. Not a great resolution for a murder mystery, leaning a lot on the #Girboss vibes to actually sell the conclusion.

This is a cutesy paranormal romance if I ever saw one. It's funny, endearing, the setting is unique and the main couple has loads of chemistry.

It would be on point if not for the plot structure. I felt like this decided it was going to turn into a duologu halfway through and had to fit in a plot for that, so all of sudden there's this story about curse going in and they have to fight it and another character to nake it a polycule and honestly... It would've worked very well if the two halfs fit better together.

I'm still curious about the next one, as this is a debut and I think Joy Demorra has lots of space to grow.