★★★-3.5
- Sep 25, 2021
Review: Parasite by Darcy Coates (Spoiler-Free)
3.5 stars! For the most part, this book was very enjoyable, but it came with two major issues for me: 1. It's pitched as a novel, and it's very much not. It's short stories. Yes, they all take place in the same universe during the same time period with the same main conflict, but that does not make something a novel. 2. The last story was so obviously less heavily edited than the rest. It was so much weaker, made less sense, had more typos and poorer writing. Until that last
★★★★-4
- Sep 13, 2021
Review: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (Spoiler-Free)
Fangirl is one of the most popular contemporary YA books ever and the publishing industry still refuses to acknowledge that people want books set in college? 😩 Why must the world be so cruel. It sounds like I'm joking, but seriously, why are the only college books indie smutty romances? I'm not even saying college books have to be YA, but I just wish they existed at all. I could count every one I've heard of on one hand. And, honestly, I think that's part of the reason so ma
★★★★-4.25
- Sep 2, 2021
Review: Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall (Spoiler-Free)
So be careful what roads you take, and who you follow down them. Enjoyment while reading was definitely worth a 4.5, but the ending was just a 4, so I'm evening things out into the nitty gritty. This was a super fun YA horror, and I was so so glad to discover that it was actually scary. Was it the most horrifying thing I've ever read? No. But were there some brutally disturbing moments. Hell yeah. I think I'm coming to learn that I enjoy a good ghost story, and this is defini
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