i can't believe it was an international sensation. i can't believe it was adapted into a movie starring actual queen emily blthis. book. suuuuuuuucks.
i can't believe it was an international sensation. i can't believe it was adapted into a movie starring actual queen emily blunt. i can't believe it SOLD A SINGLE COPY. (i didn't buy this one. my mom did. so there.)
this is just...a straight up bad book on every level. the characters are so insanely unlikable it's cartoonish. it'd be funny if it didn't make EVERY SECOND OF THIS BOOK, EVERY PAGE, EVERY WORD, A FRESH HELL TO FIGHT THROUGH IN ORDER TO GET TO THE NEXT ONE, WHICH IS, GUESS WHAT, ALSO HELL.
this would be maybe O.K. or at least survivable if this book was scary or thrilling or spooky or intriguing at all, but guess what, IT ISN'T. just some lady getting blasted on vodka and riding a train. looking out some windows. sometimes sneaking a peek at a house.
the entertainment potential is almost overwhelming.
honestly all i really want from a thriller = some thrills. that really does not seem like too much to ask for, considering IT'S THE F*CKING NAME OF THE WHOLE ENTIRE GENRE. and the reveal of this makes it even worse.
bottom line: straight up one of the worst books i've ever read. are there people who like this book? if so, HOW????
(this is part of a project i'm doing where i write mini-reviews of books i read a long time ago. this parenthetical insert is a constant snoozefest)...more
vanishing girls? more like...my vanishing memory of this book, girl!
okay. not my finest. but in my defense i'm setting myself up to review a book i revanishing girls? more like...my vanishing memory of this book, girl!
okay. not my finest. but in my defense i'm setting myself up to review a book i remember almost nothing about. that's a scary thing. you try joking on the precipice! why don't i set you up on a diving board over a snake-infested pool and tell you to say something funny!
now i'm just procrastinating.
lauren oliver is an author i thought i liked, and then i realized she was actually just an author i'd read a lot of. all of her books are middling, two or three star reads for me, and even reflecting upon them is like jumping into a portal and ending up in 2015.
in other words, it's a hell i'm going to try to escape from right now.
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this weird, overlong, largely forgotten about paragon of the Slightly Mysterious Contemporary genre thawhy is this book suddenly becoming a tv series?
this weird, overlong, largely forgotten about paragon of the Slightly Mysterious Contemporary genre that was so popular in 2014, a heinous year where your only choices were the aforementioned niche and Dystopian Knockoffs Desperately Attempting to Attain the Success of the Hunger Games.
this was not good to me even in 2014, when i was 16 and had no taste and read whatever i could buy at target.
god, i miss the finances of 16 year old me. no rent, no groceries, just an influx of under the table untaxed babysitting money i could freely spend on mediocre books and Halloween-esque bags of fun size candy.
anyway. even then, when everything was good, this still wasn't.
almost impressive, in that way.
this is part of a project i'm doing where i review books i read a long time ago. this one was provoked by my utter befuddlement upon seeing a trailer for this show....more
when i first read this (i was around 10 or 11), i highlighted the following passage with a black marker:
"I've always found that one of the biggest benwhen i first read this (i was around 10 or 11), i highlighted the following passage with a black marker:
"I've always found that one of the biggest benefits of being a girl is that most people refuse to take you seriously. While boys must be constantly monitored and are always the first suspects when anyone goes wrong, everyone expects girls to do what they're told. It may seem a little insulting at first, but low expectations can be a blessing in disguise. If you're smart, you can use people's foolishness to your own advantage. It's amazing what you can get away with when no one bothers watching."
kind of hard to exaggerate the role this book played in radicalizing me into a tiny feminist badass.
i remember this as being one of the best and most fun stories i read in my whole childhood (which was, true to my current existence, full of books), bi remember this as being one of the best and most fun stories i read in my whole childhood (which was, true to my current existence, full of books), but i just gave its reviews a cursory glance, ready to see the hordes agreeing with that take, and saw a whole lot of one and two star reviews.
...
is this how you guys feel when i write my lil rant reviews about your favorites?
because if you're trying to teach me literary empathy, it won't work.
on the to reread shelf it goes.
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Basically my whole review of this is that the first book is magic and adventure and fun and perfection and a total unique one of a kind delight from tBasically my whole review of this is that the first book is magic and adventure and fun and perfection and a total unique one of a kind delight from top to bottom...
And this is like, okay. Pretty good at points.
But definitely not the first book.
That's all.
Bottom line: Do you really need a bottom line if the review itself is like three and a half sentences long??...more
hi my name is emma and a fun fact about me is that the fictional town from pretty little liars is set like 10 minutes from where i grew up.
my tiny towhi my name is emma and a fun fact about me is that the fictional town from pretty little liars is set like 10 minutes from where i grew up.
my tiny town and the surrounding tiny towns get name checked in this series, and it's for this reason that i feel: my high school experience should have been significantly more exciting.
still. the most dramatic thing to occur at my school was the race for biggest teacher's pet, and seeing as we weren't even allowed to know class rank due to our sheer competitiveness being unsafe, that could only do so much.
anyway. these books are so fun, this show was a cultural touchstone, and i will never read or watch or think about either ever again.
part of ye olde i review books i read a long time ago series...more
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