Saturday, 23 February 2019
Hush Hush (02/02/19)
So this book took over a month for me to read, which considering how its not a relatively long book baffles me. I was not compelled to read this book when I had a spare few minutes. I was not finding myself wanting to stay up just a little bit longer to finish the next chapter. It was honestly really lacking in so many ways.
I love reading YA fantasy/paranormal/mystical books. I love them! I have enjoyed series like House of Night, Sookie Stackhouse, Hunger Games, Daughter of Smoke and Bone, I even liked Twilight back before the films. But I just don't get this book at all.
Less than a month after reading it I can barely remember anything that happened. None of the characters were likeable, swoon worthy or even vaguely pleasant. Her mother was frankly useless. The police who randomly seemed to show up completely incompetent and frankly rude (but not in a realistic way).
The 'heroine'.... if you could see or feel how hard my eyes want to roll back into my head thinking about her would give you a better understanding of how I felt towards her. She has no conviction to anything. She isn't even being portrayed as dumb, but that is what she is. Her best 'friend', just vile, not even funny at all.
The main 'love interest' .... called Patch, again with a tendon pulling eye roll. he was the only vaguely interesting character. But even there this book just complete missed the mark with me.
Honestly I have no more words for this book. It seemed to be about nothing at all, and i cant honestly remember any redeeming element of it. Honestly surprised it has 3.something stars on Goodreads. If i could give it less than 1 star I would have. I likely would have given it -Stars. Safe to say i will not be reading any of the others.
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Heir of Fire (09/09/18)
So this is the third installment in the Throne of Glass
series, following straight on from Crown of Midnight, we pick straight back up
with Celeana and how she is still devastated from the loss of her close friend.
This review will have spoilers in, its impossible to talk
about a 3rd series book without them!
So I’ll start with what I thought I wouldn’t like. Rowan.
And Celeana.
When I started this book I was completed all about Chaol
and Celeana… I probably still am deep down. But I can see something beautiful
and different blossoming with Rowan. I feel like Chaol saved Celena in ToG but
in HoF it is Celeana/Aelin who saves Rowan. And I think after all that happens
in HoF Celeana/Aelin needs to not feel like she has been saved. She needs to be
the hero of her own story.
But yes for a good third of the book I could kind of see Chaol
being pushed aside and I was not happy about it.
Dorian’s love life filled me with such hope…. Then utterly
shattered me. I actually applaud the author for that. To often in these types
of books you can see the love interests playing out in a very samey samey kind
of way. Not with this one. I am still raw and broken from it. I had to put the
book on my lap for a few mins to really absorb what was happening.
I loved the flash backs to Aelin’s past and hope we get to
see more of these in future books. I feel the story is becoming very intricate
now and has really found its way. I know a lot wont like it because of the
changes in direction but realistically for Aelin to get done what is needed,
big changes needed to happen and the changes in her in this book to me, seem
realistic and purposeful.
I also really enjoyed the character shift to Manon, the
Blackbeak Witch. Hers in a very interesting storyline and I look forward to
seeing it develop and how it links to Aelin’s story overall. For me this was a
good solid read which once I got over the whole Chaol issue, I found I enjoyed immensely
and look forward the book number 4!
Wednesday, 20 February 2019
Call Me By Your Name (03/01/19)
So I heard lots of good things about this book. It was being (has been) made into a film. So I thought I'll give this a go. And after the effort it was to read this book, all I can say is, meh.
The were elements I really enjoyed, where i started to go "Ooo its starting to get good" and then I would be dragged back into really abstract ways to describe the scene. I honestly don't mind a bit of well done descriptions of visuals of feeling etc. But this just felt pointless. I think its a very, arty, type of writing and honestly its just not my cup of tea.
The story as a whole, is interesting and would normally be my cup of tea. Over a beautiful hot summer in Italy a young professor finishing off his philosophy book and the son of the people housing him in Italy begin a romantic affair in secret. The concept of the story brilliant and refreshingly new. The execution... honestly, not my style and the writing style really stopped me following the story easily. I just like a bit more instant gratification from my books.
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