lucepuce
Reading fantasy, romance, and sometimes thriller or sci-fi!
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Victoria Schwab
0lucepuce commented on lucepuce's review of Wild Reverence
Very good book! I loved to world building and the characters, especially the relationship between Bade and Matilda. I was pleasantly surprised since I thought Divine Rivals to be overrated. But I truly enjoyed this story! Only downside for me is I did not really believe how they fell in love. It was a bit quick in my opinion and I felt like I was told they were now in love but I had not seen it happen. Maybe that's just me though, everything else in this book is perfect!
3lucepuce wrote a review...
Very good book! I loved to world building and the characters, especially the relationship between Bade and Matilda. I was pleasantly surprised since I thought Divine Rivals to be overrated. But I truly enjoyed this story! Only downside for me is I did not really believe how they fell in love. It was a bit quick in my opinion and I felt like I was told they were now in love but I had not seen it happen. Maybe that's just me though, everything else in this book is perfect!
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Wild Reverence
Rebecca Ross
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The dialogue is throwing me off— the way the adults and male characters in this book speak isn’t really realistic in my opinion
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lucepuce commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I find the concept of evil fascinating. I love evil characters. One thing I’ve noticed about literature, specifically western literature (because I don’t want to speak on literature I’m unfamiliar with) is that evil-ness is often associated with Satan or The Devil. And I think many of these villainous characters embody who Satan is supposed to be. And it doesn’t have to surround Christianity, either. Many religions and belief systems have an evil entity that is opposed to the “almighty God.” I’m speaking to monotheism in particular here.
All this to ask: which books do you enjoy that identifies evil as one of its themes?
56lucepuce commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I’ve gotten into reading in French because of my uni classes and I would looove to read something fun and more easy going (think romance, fantasy, sci fi), but I don’t know if I would need to know more colloquial French?? idk, what are your recs for getting into contemporary popular French literature?
18lucepuce commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Does anyone else get unreasonably upset when someone DNFs a book and rates it 1 star because they didnt reach the point of growth in the book? Like, I love books with unlikeable or weird or complicated main characters. That means that for the first half of a lot of books you don’t like them! And for some reason people think this is the author glorifying their thoughts or agreeeing.
I just feel like we need to stop thinking that portraying a mindset means agreeing or glorifying it, and that if a character is problematic it means the book is BAD. And if you can’t make that distinction then maybe you shouldn’t be seeking out books that say they have a problematic or complicated main character or contains things that you don’t agree with. I get upset when a great book gets a one star review because someone couldn’t trust that the character might grow or even that there’s a point being made intentionally by letting them be problematic.
Edit to clarify I am totally fine with DNFing it’s the giving a bad rating without even reading the full book OR condemning a book that might be very well written but has a character that they disagree with that annoys me more.
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lucepuce commented on GrannyWeatherwax's review of The Last Town (Wayward Pines, #3)
A solid end to the series but the love quadrangle was absolutely silly and Adam returns to town waaay too late. Also, the book was graphic enough without adding a rape scene.
1lucepuce commented on clover22's review of The Last Town (Wayward Pines, #3)
My opinion of this series has dwindled with each book. But as the pages have worn on and I've continually rolled my eyes, I've also realized that I'm not Crouch's target audience.
Wayward Pines was written for men (yes, men) who prefer action sequences to emotion or contemplation, who enjoy reading fragmented sentence after fragmented sentence. For misogynists who can sympathize with a violent and glorified main character.
If that sounds like you, I'm sure you'll love Wayward Pines. I just wish I'd realized what kind of series this was before I spent my time reading it.
One saving grace might have been if there had been a twist with the abbies. When I saw that things were going to be less Twin Peaks and more Planet of the Apes, I started to expect the abbies to actually be a fairly "civilized" species. There was one scene where an abby was looking out the window of a house, and I really wanted them to take over the houses and start living there.... they are descended from humans, it's plausible.... that would have been cool..... But nah. These books are a mess. I might still watch the TV series when it airs (because of Carla Gugino, and also because how could the adaptation be worse than these books), but that's it. I don't want to give these books any more of my time. This is the last book in the series, right??
Thank you to Thomas & Mercer and Goodreads for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
1lucepuce finished reading and wrote a review...
Enjoyable book! A fast paced ending to this series, I read it very quickly. However, I am a bit conflicted about the content. I felt like the book dwelled too much on Ethan's love affairs while there were more pressing matters. And there were more inconsistencies or impossible occurrences that I picked up on. The ENDING!!! there's no way that's possible!
0lucepuce commented on the_rags's update
the_rags is interested in reading...
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
Katherine Arden
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