sylviafey's reviews
32 reviews

 Unfortunately, I had to DNF this book. I just couldn't get into it and was about 4 hours into the audiobook when I stopped. I give books a little while to catch and hold my interest but this one couldn't. I found my mind wandering and thinking of reading something else. One thing I did discover was I can't handle slow paced books, anymore. I used to be able to power through them, but my tolerance has gone down since I was a teen. It actually made me a little sad but it is what it is. I hope other people enjoy it more than I did, it just wasn't for me. 

I already knew within the prologue that this was a 'fated mates' type story and I was ready to DNF at any reason. I had my Vampire and Werewolf phase in high school and, honestly, was over the subjects once I graduated. It also did help that almost every single werewolf book that I've come across are along the lines of 'fated mates', so I was tired of the subject before even reading this. Then I started reading and... apparently there are still some vampire/werewolf books that I enjoy. I had a hard time putting this book down, which was amazing and bad at the same time. I had other books I needed to finish, lol. 

The characters were awesome and Misery is so sassy. I love her. It really frustrated me and made me sad how much some simple communication and open-mindedness could have changed so many perspectives. It was really similar to how reality is with the racism and how everyone already had their opinions about her without even knowing her.

While this wasn't a duel POV, I still had moments of confusion where I didn't know what the hell was going on. Sometimes it would take me reading several pages before I would finally catch up to what was going on. It felt like there was a lot of needless skipping around, going from present day to her past and while sometimes that can work, it felt that most of the time it was a little out of context or that the chapter would have been fine without her reflecting on her past. 

Still, I did enjoy it but I wouldn't reread it at a later date.

The book is pretty good paced and the characters are awesome! Caz is my favorite character out of the book and is so hilarious and relatable. He makes me want a spider plant. I was excited about this book and had fairly high hopes just off the blurb and was NOT disappointed. After the books I was excited to read last year being total let downs, I was trying not to get my hopes up too high but there they went. Totally out the window and I'm glad for it. The more I read the more I got to thinking that this book sounds like a Studio Ghibli movie. So it was no wonder I loved this book so much. I LOVE Studio Ghibli movies and this gives off the same vibes and whimsey as a Studio Ghibli movie. It even has similar character types and plot where the MC has to learn new things or figure out how to survive in a new environment and make friends. I would not be surprised if Howls Moving Castle or Spirited Away were inspirations. 

My favorite character had to be Caz. He's such an adorable, neurotic little thing and Kiela casually easing his worries was nice. Kiela was so relateable throughout the book, for the most part. Her awkwardness around people and love of her books but dislike of people and socializing was relatable, for me. 

All in all, the book was really cute and funny. It gave me a few epiphanies that made me really think about what I read and what makes me DNF a book and what I like in my books that keep my attention. This book is one of my top favorite reads of all time, for sure.

I read this in graphic novel form because, I'll be honest, I didn't want to read a 600+ page book. (Later found out it's only ONE PART of the original book.) But I just like Graphic Novels and the art of them. At first, I didn't understand what was going on, mainly because I've never read the original book and have never watched the movies. I didn't even know about Dune until recently. I was confused because it feels like the graphic novel jumps straight into the storyline without much explaination, if any at all.  I liked the idea behind it but the way 'You should have had a daughter' kept coming up was very off putting. I hated that the mother was basically spineless and Paul came off as a bit of an entitled, spoiled brat, at times. I hated the reverend mother bitch and the skuzzy baron. The full panel of just the baron's face was gross and nightmare enducing after assassin dude said something about 'having lady Jessica'. Like, WTF? Ew! The plot of someone scheming to take over everything isn't new and considering the original book was published in 1965, it doesn't surprise me considering around that time, this was a huge plotline that a lot of movies, comics, and books followed, along with the 'chosen one' theme. I will say that my favorite characters were Duncan Idaho and the Duke. Everyone else can fuck off, including the main character. 
Unfortunately, I was just... bored reading this. Usually Graphic Novels can keep my attention because they have a lot going on in the scene or with the characters, or even some action. This one was just... panels and panels of the same scene from different angles and huge, dense speech bubbles. Randomly, the characters would have little boxes of text that were their 'inner thoughts' but it was few and far between. If I'm being honest, I skipped over a lot of the dialogue because it was just... yawn. I love dialogue in BOOKS, but IMO, Graphic Novels are meant for action more than dialogue and this one had little action. The only reason I finished it was because it was so short and I could determine what was going on just from looking at the pictures, if I didn't want to read the mountains of dialogue. I'll probably not read the other two, going off of this one, HOWEVER, I am going to try reading the actual book and see how I feel about that.

This was one of the book on my 'popular reads takedown' and I'm mad that I kind of enjoyed it. I was meant to be hate reading this book or reading it to the point that I can say "I gave it a shot and it's over-hyped" but fuck me, I guess. 

Through out the book, I kept getting pissed off because of the amount of lying (duh! Title says it all) and cheating. And I get it, it's a bunch of teenagers and nobody is ever the person they were as a teen, but still.

One girl gets her emotions and self worth sucker punched from both sides (From her mother and boyfriend. Seriously, fuck those people.), the other girl has burdened herself with responsibility to the point of barely knowing who she is without her achievements (family traditions and making up for her sister being sick), one of the guys I thought was going to be the alright character, but he's a cheater in the most typical way that makes me want to punch him, and the last guy just doesn't care about anything, which he got from his life being shit.

I've never been so angry at a book and so invested at the same time. I honestly would have DNFed it after chapter 5 for the cheating, but OMG does the author make it engaging. Although, the more I read, the less interest I had in the book to the point it was a struggle to finish it, but I was already most of the way through it.

I had a theory on who it was from the beginning (AuDHD pattern recognition), and I wasn't surprised at who actually did it.

It was sad but not unexpected, to me.

I'll make my highlights public but I pretty much figured it out before the end of chapter 4 or 5, which kinda sucks and is part of the reason I don't like mysteries as much as I used to. Everything follows the same pattern. Ugh. Just remember that the characters are TEENAGERS, which I had to remind myself of several times, and be prepared for the usual teenage angst stuff. Fairly fast paced. stereotypical characters. And reminded me of high school days when you had no control over anything in your life and hardly any spine to stand up for yourself.

The cops constantly interrogating the teens got on my nerves, despite knowing that they were just trying to figure out who did it. Honestly, this book could have been a hell of a lot shorter than it was and be a decent read, like a novella or something. In the end, it was a decent book, but not one I'd pick up again.