goatsrsexy's reviews
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Fun world building and I love anything to do with the elemist but not a super entertaining plot for me

I can imagine this is a book people will love or hate. For me, it felt like it was written for someone with a brain just like mine.

I requested an arc of this book from Simon & Schuster Canada because the cover looked completely absurd. I'm the type of person who will always like a book with an absurd cover. It's really important to judge a book by its cover in this case because, tbh if you hate this cover you'll probably also hate the book.

The premise of this book- Reality Kahn is 23 and she's very strange. We're not 100% sure why she's so strange, although theories are alluded to. Anyways, Reality decides she needs a boyfriend. More importantly, she decides that she needs to be a girlfriend. Becoming the perfect girlfriend becomes Reality's mission, her quest. Shes very naive and very desperate to please and we see her go on a very strange journey to become her idea of the perfect girlfriend. Reading this book definitely gives you a sense of detachment from reality, especially as you get closer to the end.

Paradise Logic is completely absurd, surreal, hilarious, and also pretty dark. It definitely made me think a lot about my younger self, and even my current self. It's certainly a book that will stay with me. I read it in one sitting and had a great time doing so. The book had a very interesting way of mixing light silly fun with and underlying darkness and sadness. I really did see a lot of myself in Reality and I really hope she has a happy life.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what Sophie Kemp does next! Thank you to Simon & Schuster for the advanced copy of this book!

Idk the prose of this book was pretty nice and the premise was interesting but at 73% there's just nothing pulling me back. I'm bored and ready to move on. Nothing is really happening and the vibes aren't good enough to make up for that

Ugh this was so good I want the next one to be out already 

I really like Edward Ashton's writing! I've read all his books from Mickey 7 on, and each one I've liked more than the last. His books are a very accessible version of sci Fi because the stories are personal and comedic, but they are accessible without being too simple. They have complex and interesting world building just on a small scale. 

The Fourth Consort reminded me a lot of Antimatter Blues, the sequel to Mickey 7 which is one of my favourite stories. It also reminded me a bit of the spin off Animorphs book, the Andalite Chronicles.

I love stories about diplomatic relations between aliens because there's so many places you can go with them.

I won't go too much into plot points in this review because I found it enjoyable to read the book and figure out what was happening as I went.

If you're a fan of this authors other books you'll definitely like this one too. Id recommend it as well to fans of Becky Chambers and other more light hearted sci-fi authors.

Thanks so much to the publisher for the advanced copy!!

This is a great YA novel about an enslaved teenager named Junie who lives in Alabama around 1860. She is a housemaid to a girl named Violet who she grew up with and sees almost as a sister, but as they both get older and face the expectations that come with their ages, Junie starts to realize how dark her life is and feels unable to accept the way things are, all the while she's being haunted by the ghost of her recently deceased sister who wants Junie to get the freedom she couldn't have for herself.

This was a very strong story, I've not read a book about slavery from this perspective before, but to be fair I haven't read very many books that take place during this time in American history. I really liked how all the characters felt fleshed out and not like side characters, you could feel sympathy for Violet and Bea without excusing their racism and acceptance of the status quo, it's not easy to make a character sympathetic without excusing their bad behaviour, so this is something I always appreciate. 

I do wish that there'd been more than a brief mention of the slaves who didn't work in the house, but with the author's note at the end, I understood why she made that decision.

I really appreciate when publishers send me books like this, because it's not something I would have picked up on my own but it was a very good book and I'm glad to have read it. So thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the advanced copy.

For me this was just ok. It was pretty interesting and entertaining but a lot more surface level than I was expecting 

If you thought things couldn't get any crazier and more traumatic and out of hand after reading Happy Head, you're really gonna be in for it with Happy Head.

The top 10 from the Happy Head program get to move on to the next phase which is some Lord Of The Flies island adventure with super insane challenges and eugenics.

While the stuff happening to the characters was completely absurd, the scary part was that it didn't seem that unrealistic that it could really happen. Seeing the psychological effects of abuse, manipulation, and cult-like behaviour on these poor teenagers was really scary!!

I kinda wish there had been a third book because the conclusion felt a bit rushed to me, but all in all this was a good conclusion to the story and a duology that is very much worth reading.

Thanks to Penguin Teen Canada for the advanced copy prior to the North American publication date.

This was a very ambitious read for me! It took me almost 10 months to read it. I've always struggled to read classics but I've been trying to read at least one per year (this was my 2024 pick obviously). 

I find it very challenging to read such large novels where there is a lot of rambling and side tangents, but those things definitely added to the richness of th book and didn't feel superfluous. 

I'll probably have to sit with this for a while before writing a proper review on instagram, but this book is definitely worth your time.