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This may be close to a perfect book for me. Short and concise, detailed and great writing, while having a kid protagonist to make things feel harder. Pet is the perfect point for exposition, for learning the world of past and present, it being so menacing, yet also honest. I absolutely adore this book. The
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I had to delete my first review I had started. I went into this thinking I’d hate it, because I hated a novel love story by the same author, and Rebecca Serle’s book which feels similar. But the romance in this felt very based in reality, and their arguments were reasonable and how things might
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I found the writing distracting. I like a well told story, not a book about a girl telling a story, and it having that clear divide. This might not be a big issue for some, but for me it immediately pulls me out of the actual story in order for Agnes to make some additional
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You know how you pick up a book and can’t stop reading until it’s finished? That was this for me. I don’t love thrillers, typically, but this is character centered. It’s addicting. The way she sets out the mystery based on characters actions (or inactions) is impressive. I admire how she weaved this story together.
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Similar to in five years, I just find this book lacking substance. Lacking perspective or depth. It’s not objectively bad, just pale and bland for me. I can feel that the author wants to have depth, but it doesn’t translate on the page for me. The descriptions of places are good, I felt transported, but
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There was a few take aways from this book: -Use the simplest language -writing for children doesn’t mean talking down, it’s just another form, maybe the best way to tell your specific story if that’s where instinct is leading you But other than that, this book is a self-indulgent pile of garbage. There’s a whole
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This book was haunting and so relatable in an odd way, being an outsider is something we all feel at one point, especially in adolescent when your feelings are extreme and you feel more isolated than ever. And then with these feelings using alcohol to cope with them to feel normal. I barely made any
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This is a pretty stream of consciousness. That’s all. I found it quite boring and couldn’t stay locked in. “I am detached as the statician is when he lists his thousands dead” this quote from the book perfectly describes how I felt reading it. Every sentence feels clunky and overloaded, meanwhile I have no idea
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I can see why some people don’t like this one, it’s much more in the thick of the gods. But for me, the stakes were much higher, and Romans parts were more interesting than Iris’, a reversal of the first book. I think this book and the first book perfectly contrast each other and I
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Scratching noises wake me in the dark room. I sit up to hear better, the red numbers on my clock announce it’s 1:13am. There is a small amount of light streaking through the slates of the blinds, giving my closet a menacing shape, faces seeming to form on my clothes. Did I forget to shut
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