shane_the_reading_rat's reviews
1065 reviews

finished a book for one of my book clubs on the final day of the month!! it still counts!! 
anyway i thought this book was extremely well done and informative. very very very good

look the romance was boring, the main characters were boring too, but this book is a beautiful love letter to a city and to the passage of time and what it brings and i am very into that

that relatable moment when you miss your roommate so badly (he moved to maine) that you make a full-sized human(? or close enough) out of clay
as you can tell by the rating i loved this

i sped through this, it was awesome. saw so much of my childhood self in A and got to learn a lot about Jewish folklore. a win-win :)

you would not believe how excited i was for this book, ive been wanting a Nadya book since she was introduced so this was awesome (also i just love reptiles, including turtles).
the world didn’t stand out to me quite as much as other Wayward Children books (this + the drowned gods world just feel kinda similar to me), but i liked it perfectly fine. 
the concept of how basically every layer of the world has water, the difference was just how light vs. heavy of water it was was awesome. super creative i liked that :)

this was a beautiful book. i’m not much of a novel-in-verse person generally, but i really tried to sit with this one and take my time and let it sink in, and that was definitely worth it.
i do think this got a bit off-track at the end (to me, this is due to adding a little too many perspectives and the writing losing a little strength), but the beginning and middle of this book are so, so, so good

i love sharks and this was awesome. true yippee moment

admittedly, i did not expect to like this much after reading/disliking Gwen and Art Are Not In Love, but i have been proven wrong!!

Baxter my darling i love you

the banter in this book was incredible, i love all the characters, and CLEM AND MARIEL!!! CLEM AND MARIEL!!! their romance was very very fun (and im typically quite picky about romances so that means a lot that i loved theirs so much)

HELL YEAH OUYANG HELL YEAH ZHU I LOVE BOTH OF YOU YOURE TERRIBLE BUT I LOVE YOU KEEP DOING YOUR VILLAINOUS THINGS

i have so many thoughts on this book/this series overall but its such a confusing book i dont know how to properly explain my thoughts, so it’s bullet point time