omqchristi's reviews
716 reviews

starting to get better...

good thing i watched the movie first

i had to switch to the audiobook for this one

i still don't hate chaol
dorian is just kinda meh
celaena is okay i guess

i'm just waiting for the moment where things change and either the romance gets better (which i'm assuming it does since i've been spoiled on some stuff already) or the plot starts actually picking up. only then will i actually enjoy reading this series.

still gonna push through all of the books though.

fucking finally finished this

for a second there i forgot why i DNFed this book. but now i remember. it's kinda boring.

like you can call my brain rotten or whatever, but a good romantic subplot would've fixed this. and before you say that there is a slight love triangle in this one. no. that doesn't count.

*note: a lot of the criticisms i have for this book can be done well, but in this book it was not.

i was so close to DNFing, luckily for you i just DNFed another book so i thought I'd push through this one.

- mc is so annoying and unlikeable
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apparently everyone is out to get her, and even the kind people MUST have other motives. this isn't unrealistic, but this book doesn't really show how badly people are being unkind to her. everything that is showed is very juvenile and meh.

- so apparently her family is shunned, but some still make fun of her and acknowledge her??
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winnie advances through the trials through other people/entities helping her, she barely does anything for herself. yea she's smart, but her knowledge of the nightmares don't really translate to being clever.

- she blames everyone else for following rules that their family is shunned... 
- the luminaries blames the mc's family for not knowing the dad was a witch/traitor and shuns them, but they were the ones that vetted him??
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winnie was shunned and literally calls herself the girl who cried wolf, and wonders why no one is listening to her

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she gets so angry at everyone for something her father did to her, and when her father sends clues. she doesnt do anything about them (at first). dumb.

- so... why is Jay the "bad boy" of Hemlock Falls?
- the way this book tells us information about supernatural creatures is with a main character that can basically recite book descriptions of them. ew
- talk about bland romance book
- the luminaries are divided in to groups names after days of the week, and that defines them. huh

the reveal at the end with

her dad being framed

. i predicted something odd was going on, but i don't feel like this book led to that conclusion all that well. honestly i wish more time was spend on finding out what really happened with that.

are they teenagers or are they eight?

the romance in this book was lacking. i did not see how or why chloe and shara liked each other, at all.

RW&RB was mediocre for me, One Last Stop was good, but now I'm realizing that I read Casey McQuiston books not for the romances, but rather for all other reasons (like plot). I don't like politics, so obviously I didn't like RW&RB's plot. But Once Last Stop had sci-fi and mystery that captivated me more than the romance. As for this one, the mystery, the clues, and the game were super interesting. Even so, this was lacking. I think I would've been more interested if this book just went in a different direction than it had gone.

idk. the first half and last quarter of this book was okay, the middle i disliked.

This book mentions John Green, and yea when your book premise is a clone of Paper Towns, I get it. But i gotta say, i do like the execution of this one better.

also, everyone in this book is gay. like everyone. okay maybe like 90%.

Wes > Charlie > Nick

buuuuut. they are all kind of dummies, which i don't mind, for the most part

worst one of this trilogy, but i still loved it. i think this one was just less romantic and more boring than the others.

this book was a blend of multiple POVs, consisting of Evangeline, Apollo, and Jacks with mostly Evangeline chapters and less of Jacks chapters. I think this book would've been more dreamy with more of Jacks perspective, especially since the first two books had him be around all the time and we never got anything from his perspective.

also, do i think the stuff about Jacks' True Love was retconned? yea, but i think it was done okay. 

i really loved the idea of the story curse, and that epilogue was great.

love love love

rereading this made me love so much more, especially after reading details i misssed the first time

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this one was the best out of the entire series, caraval series included. specifically the second half was the best.

yea i wanted to fight jacks for most of this book, and miss garber took me on a rollercoaster of emotions, but that's what made it so good.

definitely will be rereading :)