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Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
4.0
edit: it has been 24 hours and i’m still upset, but i have been thinking more about it. the prose is lovely. honestly, i saw reviews about not liking the main character Iris or thinking the writing was not great, but i beg to differ! i really liked iris. i was rooting for her the whole time! i love roman’s POV and i’m glad it’s sprinkled throughout the book.
i read this book in one night. it was 5 stars UNTIL THE ENDING. i’m so annoyed and i just wish that the ending was explored in a different way! i’m so fucking mad!!!!!!!!!
i read this book in one night. it was 5 stars UNTIL THE ENDING. i’m so annoyed and i just wish that the ending was explored in a different way! i’m so fucking mad!!!!!!!!!
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
4.0
honestly, i started earlier than 10/16, but i only read like 30 pages by 10/16. then, a friend started reading it, too, so i had to keep up! i read about 30 pages between 10/16 and 10/20, and then on 10/21 i read uhhhh 600+ pages. what everyone else says is true: once you get through the initial world building, it gets REALLY good.
i loved this book. i love so many of the characters. CC1 is another testament to sarah’s writing skills. is it corny sometimes? sure! but that’s what i love about it. if you’re willing to read through corniness (if that’s even a problem for u! it really isn’t one for me), then you’ll be gifted with a wonderful story.
i give four stars not five for a few reasons:
1. the world building took a little while and sort of felt like i was being told a lot of info at once. i’m into world building and i think CC has a cool history, but it was a little hard to get through what with me having grad school readings and stuff.
2. if you want steamy scenes, you will not! get them! there are about 3 scenes where characters come CLOSE to
i loved this book. i love so many of the characters. CC1 is another testament to sarah’s writing skills. is it corny sometimes? sure! but that’s what i love about it. if you’re willing to read through corniness (if that’s even a problem for u! it really isn’t one for me), then you’ll be gifted with a wonderful story.
i give four stars not five for a few reasons:
1. the world building took a little while and sort of felt like i was being told a lot of info at once. i’m into world building and i think CC has a cool history, but it was a little hard to get through what with me having grad school readings and stuff.
2. if you want steamy scenes, you will not! get them! there are about 3 scenes where characters come CLOSE to
In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire
4.0
this was much different than the previous three books! lundy’s Goblin Market seems wonderful, and the concept of Fair Value & its effects was really interesting. McGuire writes really novel concepts based around a concept that is /not/ novel to most readers. for the most part, i thoroughly enjoyed myself. i was a little disappointed in the ending, but i think there are a lot of signs and hints dropped throughout the book that help me understand why mcguire made that choice for that character. i don’t want to add spoilers, so i just hope that if or when you read this series, you’ll love it and understand why i rated it 4/5 stars. :)
Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
4.0
back to the walcott sisters with this one, and i do love their world. mcguire writes so well in the Moors, and the opportunity to read a deeper look into the Moors was wonderful. sumi adds an interesting perspective in this one, and i think she provided a nice, peppier mirror to jack’s thoughts. she’s like jack wrapped up in cotton candy, honestly. despite being in my favorite EHD location, i had a more difficult time reading this one. they’re only about 120-130 pages each, so i can move through the books quickly, but this one took me longer. i think mcguire keeps her characters moving which i appreciate, but i just found that this one was a little more repetitive than the others. however, huge plus to this book: there’s two fat women!!!!! YAY!!!!!! that was a huge plus for me. if anything, i want you to know that mcguire writes books with representation that is natural and simple; she clearly isn’t just making characters diverse for “clout,” so to speak.
Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire
3.0
3.5/5
This one was my least favorite out of the series so far. While I still enjoyed it, it just didn't wow me as much as the others, and I think I will remember the least amount of details from this one. The main character's identity is really interesting, and I don't think that there are many books with explicit representation of people in this population. I am glad to see this identity and group of people being represented in literature, and reading her struggles with her identity was compelling. I liked the MC, Regan. I feel like we spent most of the time reading about sort of mundane things Regan went through in her doorway, and the end was a little rushed? There were some loose ends that didn't get resolved, and the ending was extremely abrupt. I like this series for many reasons, one of them being that the books are short but still fully fledged. I honestly think that this book specifically could have been a little longer. However, I can understand that the intended effect may have been that we know as little as Regan, so we're with her completely for the ride. Regardless, I would still recommend this series. Unless the next few books in the series reference Regan for any reason, I think you could skip this book, and it would not greatly impact your enjoyment of the series. This book did not involve any of the MCs from the previous books, and the school is not mentioned at all. Honestly, this books is really a "standalone," and if you don't want to commit to the whole series, you could just read this one to get an idea of what the books are about. HOWEVER, I will say that I don't think this book is representative of the whole series and what the *series* is about.
This one was my least favorite out of the series so far. While I still enjoyed it, it just didn't wow me as much as the others, and I think I will remember the least amount of details from this one. The main character's identity is really interesting, and I don't think that there are many books with explicit representation of people in this population. I am glad to see this identity and group of people being represented in literature, and reading her struggles with her identity was compelling. I liked the MC, Regan. I feel like we spent most of the time reading about sort of mundane things Regan went through in her doorway, and the end was a little rushed? There were some loose ends that didn't get resolved, and the ending was extremely abrupt. I like this series for many reasons, one of them being that the books are short but still fully fledged. I honestly think that this book specifically could have been a little longer. However, I can understand that the intended effect may have been that we know as little as Regan, so we're with her completely for the ride. Regardless, I would still recommend this series. Unless the next few books in the series reference Regan for any reason, I think you could skip this book, and it would not greatly impact your enjoyment of the series. This book did not involve any of the MCs from the previous books, and the school is not mentioned at all. Honestly, this books is really a "standalone," and if you don't want to commit to the whole series, you could just read this one to get an idea of what the books are about. HOWEVER, I will say that I don't think this book is representative of the whole series and what the *series* is about.