bratatouille's reviews
204 reviews

Interesting concept! Whimsical and insightful. I enjoyed this, but it never fully grabbed my attention. Wonderful depictions of grief and change.

Yeah, we’ve all been 23 gay; get your shit together.

There is nothing inherently wrong with this book. However, at no moment did it ever grab me. Each character is shallow and conceited in a way that isn’t entertain to follow. I was expecting a soap opera sort of mess and a fun heist. We receive neither of the above, but we do get an incredibly unsatisfying ending.

This rocked. Short and sweet. It’s got it all: a unique afterlife, the mental deterioration of an impossible task, civilization established by the ungoverned, question of religion, question of authority, and, most importantly, adventure and romance. For just over 100 pages this is a gorgeously packed pie. Big big fan. I’m going to be thinking about this for a while.

Female-focused fairytale retelling with a spotlight on how media treats women. It was entertaining enough to reach the end, but not particularly imaginative or insightful in any aspect. There’s a truly annoying amount of unjustified digs between the women in the circle and a lack of plot or drive from Will. The ending felt rushed and forced. Lots of confusion between stories. It’s difficult to revive classic tales so this story began well behind the starting line and struggled immensely to keep up. Overall, I feel like I missed the point.

This book rocked and I don’t rly like sci-fi. It’s got super interesting totalitarian dictatorship moral questions about that amount of power and if man or machine will be better at wielding it. It handles grief and vengeance! It’s got a fun Clue-esque plot! By fun and Clue I mean that the twists and turns are bamboozling. It does, in fact, have much much higher stakes than Clue does. The Sci-fi aspect in this is mostly that society has Mega Super VR. Otherwise, it’s a murder mystery. I’ve been in a huge reading slump and this was a wonderful breath of fresh air during it. The only thing!! About this book!! Is that there is seriously such a photo finish instance of underlying racism. Like within the last two chapters. We got so close folks.

Although this sets out to recount the tale of someone who fell too deeply into their own false narrative, it fails to show that the narrator learned at all from their experience. The lack of growth on the part of the protagonist means I spent four hours of my life listening to a kid moan, whine, and manipulate only to face the consequences of his actions and do it all again.

This book isn’t thrilling or phenomenal but, by god, is it entertaining. I’m a sucker for a good crime story and this is the short, sweet, getaway stuff I’m looking for. I support women’s wrongs.