annieice's reviews
776 reviews

this one was REALLY exciting! i'm so hyped! i loved that Misa used her brains more this time

it was an interesting listen. made me think of things I never did and I learned a LOT as someone who didn't know much about psychedelics let alone their use as therapy. I'm sold tbh, as a psych student I'm already thinking on how I can try them and then be a guide/therapist... is that weird? i don't care. if they work, they work...

this one was CRAZY!!! like the story is really going a different direction and I'm here for it! oh and in this one was the scene from the Death Note but they order fast food video which I loveee. anyways can't wait to read more of the story!!!

This was cute. I love Japan and it's culture and it's my dream to go visit it someday so it was nice to read about it from the perspective of an outsider girl with roots from there.

solid book, the premise is pretty unique, the characters were fun, Luca was my fave and I saw that plot twist coming but i still found it cool the author went there in a MG book. the whole being set in ww2 Bern, Switzerland was really interesting and the MC Frances was a pretty strong, smart, and revolutionary female character. 

had this in my tbr for years and yesterday thought it was the day. it is a very cozy fantasy, like almost like magical realism and it definitely is an unfinished story. the main character was interesting, I like reading about a magical person that isn't really magical.  the friendships were sweet and it was a breath of fresh air to have supportive sweet parents. in other words, it was slow and it was a bit boring but oh well. i don't think I'll continue the series but it was a fine time. gotta find fantasy books that hold my attention more... it's a me problem I know

i don't really know what to say. i have never read a book remotely like this, where the mc is in kids jail, where the mc is a pregnant teen or with such a crazy traumatic past. it was a bit of a hard read and I would definitely not be able to read it if I was her age let alone live through what she did, but now I feel like I'm more mature. i can read darker shit now and I love that. the book was interesting I gotta give it that, but I pretty much knew all the plot twists and stuff the only thing I didn't expect was the ending. not that it is that surprising it just breaks the point of the book for me. i lied how this book showed how awful the prison system is especially the juvenile one and how often black people especially teens get wrongly accused so the ending kinda ruined it for me. also I didn't agree with the decision to keep the baby, it makes no sense you're a kid, you definitely can't take care of a kid... tf?! anyways the book was a fun dark time. i learned more about how f-ed up the world is for some people. i did want Mary to get adopted by mc. Cora though...

Holy s@#t, this one was a looooong ride. My… I'm not really much into YA fantasy, especially epic fantasy though I'm trying to get into the genre, but this was crazy yo! I liked it, though I do wish it was shorter as it was 500ish pages long for me!!! The main characters are flawed and weird, and sometimes really frustrating, The worldbuilding is done pretty well, but wow, did the politics and stuff frustrated me… I hated queen Aduna… I liked Zale. Calandra was kinda annoying, and her relationship with Oyuke felt so cringe and fake… yikes. I felt like it was forced, ok? But it was to make a point, as here there are only female mermaids which here are called undines, and they marry human men, whom they control basically, and can't have male kids… it's messed up. It's historical fiction so there is a bunch of slaves there too. It's interesting to see Calandra's growth though, as she didn't think about this stuff much at first, but at the end she basically starts a revolution, which turns into a disaster, of course, to set the sequel. I don't know if I'll be reading the sequel, I want to read some other books first, but maybe sometime in the future, I will. I want to get more into the mystery, and MG books now as they make me feel better, fantasy especially YA ones always tend to mess me up, lol. I do recommend it to YA fantasy fans though, and this is a childhood friends to lovers to nothing trope. Also, there's no love triangle, just a jealous cousin that is desperate to get her mom's attention.

I like this man's writing and how he always seems to explore this loss of childhood. And i appreciate that he gives grace to bis female characters even if they're doing not very moral things.