I just found this one kinda disappointing.. while the main character was very smart and resourceful, I found the rest of them just boring.

It felt like I was dragged through the mud for the entire book, then pulled up to look for some kind of message that I wasn't able to see.

I think I was just hoping to find out a little more about why the women were trapped in the first place. Why them? Why is everyone else pretty much gone? What led up to this point?

It had a lot of potential! Just fell a bit flat for me.

saw a review say andy weir cannot write and we need to stop pretending he can and i fully agree. i don’t trust any of you bitches anymore bc this was DIRE.

A disgustingly overwritten book with inhuman characters making life ruining choices that the narrative praises. This book angered me and is kind of making me want to swear off any straight romances ever again in the future. Between plot inconsistencies, heavy description and metaphor padding, lackluster queer representation + a few too many sex scenes I was left wondering what the point was. This book had nothing to say. Why did I spend my short time on earth reading this. For a little badge on an app. I suppose that was kind of worth it. This book pissed me off by virtue of being bad. A truly impressive feat.

What a strange, interesting world. This book is so cool, I look forward to continuing the series as an adult, I’m not sure I ever finished it when I was younger. I did find it very interesting how the book made a big theological argument towards the end, I’m curious how the authors religious bias will contribute to the story in the future.

I kept waiting for the ball to drop with this one, for the writing and the story to reflect a title as powerful as 'You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty', but it never came.

The characters seemed... well, like characters, I didn't feel like they were real people, fleshed out beyond the scopes of what was explicitly written. I've read that exact plot half a dozen times in fanfiction, but it doesn't work with original characters because you need to care about them first to care about the story they find themselves in.

I listened to the audiobook narrated by Bahni Turpin, and they were incredible with their character voices and delivery of some of the lines, but unfortunately they still couldn't bring me to care about this book.

If I hadn't been reading it to achieve Pagebound's Mardi Gras + Carnival 2026 readalong, I would have definitely DNF'd this book.