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  • This is How You Lose the Time War
    sveni
    Aug 04, 2025
    3.0
    Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.5

    Unfortunately, this didn't really work for me, which surprised me. From what I'd heard, this had everything I like in a book: sci-fi, a sapphic love story and beautiful writing. And the writing really is beautiful and the plot interesting enough. But the characters - Red and Blue - and the relationship between them fell completely flat for me. I could not get myself to care about them. I think the issue for me was that this book is not at all concerned with fleshing its characters out, which I find extremely important. How to Lose the Time War is a very short book, which gives the reader barely any time to get to know the characters, while also being very lyrical, meaning that even more character building is sacrificed for beautiful prose. On top of that, the story mainly consists of love letters, which creates even more distance to the characters. All that combined made the characters feel like ideas, like the first draft to me.

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  • Anxious People
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    Jul 29, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0
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    Fredrik Backman is a master at balancing humor and heavy topics.

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  • sveni commented on sunkissedalaskan's update

    sunkissedalaskan completed their yearly reading goal of 52 books!

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    sunkissedalaskan's 2025 Reading Challenge

    66 of 52 read
    I Who Have Never Known Men
    The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
    My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies, #1)
    The Night Tiger
    The Door
    The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory
    Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice (Something Happened Series)
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    The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)

    The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)

    Katherine Arden

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  • Pitch Me A Book:

    If you had the power to force people to read one book, which would it be? For me it's The Host by Stephanie Meyer. Yes, it's the same author as Twilight but you'd never guess by reading it. It's infinitely better. Just trust me. If you've ever liked any romance/romantasy/sci-fi, if you like found family, if you like an insanely interesting and unique plot with your romance, you should give this a try. (Also, (bonus?) it's lowkey pro communism.)

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  • Pitch Me A Book:

    If you had the power to force people to read one book, which would it be? For me it's The Host by Stephanie Meyer. Yes, it's the same author as Twilight but you'd never guess by reading it. It's infinitely better. Just trust me. If you've ever liked any romance/romantasy/sci-fi, if you like found family, if you like an insanely interesting and unique plot with your romance, you should give this a try. (Also, (bonus?) it's lowkey pro communism.)

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  • First time for the second time ⭐️

    What's a book you wish you could read for the first time again?

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  • sveni commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • trope advertising is just spoiling the book and it needs to stop being used

    i saw someone make a tiktok on this the other day and it hasn't left my mind since. he was specifically focusing on how advertising a book as enemies-to-lovers not only spoils the book but takes the winds out of the effectiveness of the trope and after thinking about it for a second i agreed SO hard. the best enemies-to-lovers is when you don't know it's coming, when they're fighting and hating each other until you get that 'oh...OH' moment when you realize they're starting to develop feelings for each other. the surprise of it is what makes it so good. this goes for a lot of other tropes too. knowing what half the book is going to be like, to me, takes all the fun of discovery out of the book before you even read it. it's like a watching a plot summary and then going to read the book. you know the broad strokes of what's going to happen so what's the point of taking the time to read it yourself? i know that some people want to read about specific things and the tropes help them find what they're looking for when they don't wanna waste time, but i just wish tropes weren't used in all the advertising for new books. i wish authors treated trope lists like content warnings nowadays: have a list on their website but not obviously listing them. having them easily accessible but not shoved in your face so you get spoiled before you even realize it. this was more just me sharing an opinion/ranting, but i would be interested in seeing what y'all think if you have any thoughts on this!

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  • First time for the second time ⭐️

    What's a book you wish you could read for the first time again?

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  • sveni wants to read...

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    When the Moon Hatched (Moonfall, #1)

    When the Moon Hatched (Moonfall, #1)

    Sarah A. Parker

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    Your Most Hated Books

    Sure, it's nice to find people with similar taste in books, and PageBound, due to the Favourits List on users' profiles, is amazing for that. But I fear I am a hater at heart, it's just so much fun. Also, I've found that most people (me included) find it easier to pinpoint what they dislike about a book. And sometime, things people hate about a book is exactly what I like. So I would love to hear your (preferably controversial) books you hate and why. I'll start (feel free to disagree and change my mind but please don't lynch me, though!) (Friendly reminder that you can hate a book but shouldn't shame people who enjoy them or the authors - except if it's people like J.K. Rowling, of course. Feel free to shame her) - One Dark Window because (to keep this spoiler free) the story more or less ends where it started. And it read like a first draft to me. But mostly because I wanted to bang my head against the wall because of how often I had to read how Ravyn's callused fingers caught on clothes/skin/hair. and, probably more controversially - A Little Life because (1) I'm sick of reading about tragic queer characters (2) I find it extremly over the top just how much trauma the MC went trough (3) I'm sick of books being praised as a literary masterpiece when they really are just traumatic (4) I habe a huge issue with the author's statement that she basically just tried to make her MC suffer as much as possible

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  • sveni
    Edited
    Your Most Hated Books

    Sure, it's nice to find people with similar taste in books, and PageBound, due to the Favourits List on users' profiles, is amazing for that. But I fear I am a hater at heart, it's just so much fun. Also, I've found that most people (me included) find it easier to pinpoint what they dislike about a book. And sometime, things people hate about a book is exactly what I like. So I would love to hear your (preferably controversial) books you hate and why. I'll start (feel free to disagree and change my mind but please don't lynch me, though!) (Friendly reminder that you can hate a book but shouldn't shame people who enjoy them or the authors - except if it's people like J.K. Rowling, of course. Feel free to shame her) - One Dark Window because (to keep this spoiler free) the story more or less ends where it started. And it read like a first draft to me. But mostly because I wanted to bang my head against the wall because of how often I had to read how Ravyn's callused fingers caught on clothes/skin/hair. and, probably more controversially - A Little Life because (1) I'm sick of reading about tragic queer characters (2) I find it extremly over the top just how much trauma the MC went trough (3) I'm sick of books being praised as a literary masterpiece when they really are just traumatic (4) I habe a huge issue with the author's statement that she basically just tried to make her MC suffer as much as possible

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