readbyrebekah
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Carnival FantƔstico
Angela Montoya
0readbyrebekah commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
One time I was watching a video where a creator was discussing a list of books that if someone they were talking to didn't like them, he thought they had terrible taste. I paused the video and thought "what book could he say that would make me instantly not trust another word he said?" and the only thing I could land on was Pet Sematary by Stephen King.
The misogyny, the colonialism, the utter banality of 70% of the book. I'm not a die hard Stephen King hater, but I hated that book cover to cover. I could not find a single redeeming quality about that novel.
You'll never guess what the next book out of his mouth was.
So, as title suggests: what's your "Pet Sematary"?
124readbyrebekah DNF'd a book
Seven Deadly Thorns
Amber Hamilton
0Post from the Seven Deadly Thorns forum
this is all tell and no show- how am i less than 10% in and on chapter 3 and iāve just been TOLD the whole plot and setup in one chapter?
0readbyrebekah finished reading and wrote a review...
if everyone is corrupt, then nobody is corrupt. this is what made everything feel so dull and predictable- it was just fine. mildly entertaining, but generally just fine. it felt like it was just chugging along, not really feeling for anyone except Gus (becauseā¦he spends the most time with Raven) and i found myself really not caring for any of the stakes the later into the plot we got.
too much to say, so have bullet points instead:
- this being romantasy made it worse (it should have been solidly dystopian fiction)
- this could have been YA
- plotting and pacing is odd- we had trial after trial and then everything just sorted itself out in the final 1/4
- thereās such little character development or time to care for Vale (or anyone), which is what happens when you canāt spend time with the intended lover
- none of the twists were twists (see initial point)
comparing it to The Hunger Games and having near to zero political intrigue made no sense
0readbyrebekah TBR'd a book
These Shattered Spires
Cassidy Ellis Salter
0Post from the To Cage a Wild Bird forum
i think iām justā¦bored. this was sold to me as enemies to lovers but itās actually just āinsta-lust but the characters canāt talk to each otherā and this is compared to the hunger games but thereās basically zero political intrigue here.
we cant all be corrupt, that defeats the point. iām not saying everyone needs a backstory, but you know what i mean?
1Post from the To Cage a Wild Bird forum
is this for sure an adult book?
because it reads YA in the sense it doesnāt get into the gritty toils and political aspects iād expect of an adult book (especially one compād to The Hunger Games). it glosses over lots of things id expect more from (such as how we got here, why people canāt understand bounty hunters, the ranking system, whoās really the enemy etc)
1readbyrebekah commented on a post
This author really said, ālet me TELL you everythingā as opposed to show. My creative writing professors would be losing their minds reading thisā¦
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To Cage a Wild Bird
Brooke Fast
0Post from the Seven Deadly Thorns forum
ā¦this is so painfully tropey and very YA i really donāt like it
0readbyrebekah finished reading and wrote a review...
okay so the plotting and pacing of this book was wack, but overall i liked it. the last 1/3 of the book was non stop driving, and some important plot points were very glossed over, but the first half iād say was quite good! and thatās mainly what i enjoyed.
it was entertaining, and i did want to keep reading after stopping, but this is something i wont reread. some things were far fetched but others extremely realistic
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