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If you’ve ever wanted to read a book that makes you feel like you just listened to a Noah Kahan song? Well, this was me at more than one point in this reading experience.
You know, you start off with fun and joy and whimsy despite the slightly ominous feeling, and then somewhere along the way you end up with an utter gut punch of emotion, a part of your soul stripped bare? Well, have I got the book for you. It's not all sad; it's just a soulful kind of contemplation wrapped in beautiful prose and clever little telegrams that will haunt you forever.
And the bits of the book I would normally criticise: the confusion about where this was (E.g., presumably not England), the reasons for the relationships developing the way they did… I think it all served a purpose. Chapter 10 literally made me put down the book for a whole minute to process. Maybe we're all just chess pieces in someone's story - you won't know until after your death just how it might affect the world around you.
Vicious (Villains, #1)
Victoria Schwab
Schwab’s writing is so interesting because it’s both so well written and also I feel like I have to concentrate the whole time?
It’s very clear as you read this book how much a labour of love it is. The author LOVES this world she’s created. But that doesn’t translate to quality.
The character names are predictable and trite, the love triangle forced, the plot meandering, the world building both overly complex and overly (star) simple.
Blayze (2nd Love Interest) was my favourite character probably because i didn’t have to read from his POV. The FMC doesn’t deserve him, and the MMC doesn’t deserve her.
Honestly having to read multiple chapters from the MMCs judgemental, xenophobic, homophobic ass PISSED ME OFF. Yes he always had sparks of goodness, but reading from someone who hates everyone around them for things they can’t change was a SLOG. And then i’m supposed to like him?
Her falling for the 2 LI wasn’t believable because of anything he did to her/for her, but just because he wasn’t the MMC.
I did like that the side characters were all some form of queer. But the fact that our two main POVs were so horrified by it felt unnecessary. You already introduced crazy amounts of racism, let the gays have this one.
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