l1ndz7's reviews
600 reviews

So. Not. Feeling. This. It started off intriguing and then it quickly lost it for me. At 100 pages, I feel like I should be invested at this point but I feel the opposite of when I started it. Real pity. I was so looking forward to a sci-fi arc. I didn’t care about the plot or the characters. I didn’t like the idea of a code silently killing planets. Idk I feel like if it was an author I loved who wrote this I would eat it up. Maybe I’m not a fan of this authors writing either 🤷‍♀️

This book was everything I was look for in a historical fiction book to pull me back into this genre. It had a dual POV between the two love interests that were also working together on art forgery cases. It covered family, loss, childhood, parent’s approval/love, and more! It’s an incredibly well-rounded story with an ending that was touching. 

This novella was less lyrical to me. I enjoyed the stories about the tigers but wish there was more action. I feel like this was written entirely differently from the first one and I wasn’t expecting that. Thought I would enjoy it more because of that but it ended up being less. This one was boring. Safe to say I won’t be continuing this series 😂

I had a really hard time following this and figured that it would all come together at the end. It did but I would have liked this to be a full length novel. I think she packed too much in 121 pages and I would have enjoyed it more if everything had more explanation. 

I originally tried this on audio and felt like I was reading a completely different story from the synopsis. So I switched to the physical copy and that did help but I feel like this was only the tip of the iceberg and we got a longer novel, it would have been incredible. I wanted more. Like my coworker wisely said, I think this book is meant to be abstract. 

The audiobook is F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C. Nicky Endres brought this story to live as much as the translator did.   I don’t think I would have enjoyed this nearly as much if I read it any other way. 5⭐️ for the audiobook, 4⭐️ for the overall story. 

Translated from Korean and set in South Korea, It was so much fun to read from the POV of a lonely alien that crashed on Earth and is trying to combat the loneliness with sex and has developed an appetite for humans. This short, queer, translated novel follows this alien while lures humans through dating apps. 

 Definitely not for everyone but if you liked Maeve Fly, you’ll probably like this. This story made me think of Maeve Fly. I found this story to be more enjoyable to read about and I think you will too. 

This is a popcorn, rich people drama, thriller if I’ve ever seen one. If you like reading about rich white people, family drama, in Lucy Foley’s writing style, then this will be perfect for you. We follow multiple POVs at the Calhoun’s annual cherry blossom party when a murder occurs. 

I didn’t think the plot twists in here were anything amazing or unbelievable. Reading this, I figured out that I don’t care about rich family dramas hahaha cause I didn’t care about any of the characters. They were all unlikable, all had their secrets from each other. The ending wasn’t anything shocking. Unfortunately, a pretty average thriller for me. 

Thank you to netgalley for the arc in exchange for an honest review. 

A great narrative of what people’s lives are like during war. This is set in Sudan in a border town between Northern and Southern Sudan. We follow five different POVs living in a NGO compound (humanitarian aid) during a tense time between the North and South and how their lives are forever linked. The audio was excellent and I probably would not have enjoyed such a character-driven book if I had read it any other way. 

Beautiful story about the unwanted, the invisible, the queer, the poor, finding their true selves and being free to be their true selves. 

“If anyone deserves to live, it is us. It is us, after all the dying we have done.” 

I would have liked it  better if

Yasmeen was actually her other self or a figment of her imagination instead of a being she woke up that was trying to be human.

That went into a direction that didn’t really fit in the narrative imo. Unsurprisingly, this reminds me alot of Elizabeth Acevedo’s work. The author mentions her in her acknowledgements. I like Elizabeth’s work better though. 

The message and lovely reminder of this book is that home is not a country but where the people you love are. 

This read like a scientific paper but was very informative. I took so many notes. I did learn more about Hamas which was why I decided to pick this up in the first place.