emvdw's reviews
299 reviews

Utterly heartbreaking and sometimes moving. The language is very poetic, and while sometimes beautiful, for me it veered equally often into pompous. Felt a bit repetitive at times. The audiobook is great.

It pains me that I didn't like this more, because I truly empathise with Ms. Jones and definitely agree with her stance against book bannin etc

But this was really terribly written in my opinion: very repetitive both in content and language use. Simplistically written. Many anecdotes that feel unnecessary. I did like the first and last chapter a bit more. 

Pfft, not for me. The mystery is intriguing, but didn't really care enough about the characters to read on and find out what it's all about.
 
I can imagine people that love Pratchett liking it a bit more than I did but it's not as good as Pratchett.

Very interesting but a bit alarmist at times. Also assumes people who don't get enough sleep, do so out of choice, not circumstance. 

This is the third McQuiston romance I read, and it's my least favourite. I *loved* One Last Stop and liked Red, White and Royal Blue fine, but didn't think it was exceptionally good. This one was also a perfectly good Romance novel, but contained some tropes I enjoy less (miscommunication is such a frustrating reading experience to me) and ended up a bit too saccharine for my liking. Still a fun reading experience, probably an excellent summer-read and if you like McQuiston's other work, worth giving a try!