tori_renee_reads's reviews
254 reviews

Dnfing at page 246

The premise of this was intriguing, but it fell flat. Since it is a translation, the writing is a bit stilted which I’ve come to expect as the flow is lost when translated. However, the story itself was so choppy and also cheesy. I liked the connection of Chinese history and artifacts for a National Treasure style hunt to have first contact with aliens, and although the characters were annoying and cheesy, I felt like this had me sustained in the beginning. 

About halfway through the book, they meet the aliens and it just goes even more downhill from here. The plot choppiness made me just not care about literally anything happening and it became this long, monotonous philosophical rant. Skimming the rest showed several more jumps in story goals. 

Other random things that annoyed me: the over describing of fight scenes like I was supposed think these two randoms were James Bond, the fake love triangle, and the fact that the guys should just get together but obviously won’t. 

I’m counting this towards my reading goal because I invested so much time, but I’m not torturing myself through 100 more pages of misery and another week of reading and getting nowhere because there’s no brevity to be found here.

This series is cute and fluffy. Some of the whimsy is a little forced and eye roll inducing, but overall a fun time. The pining is good in the first half of the book but it keeps regressing and cycling round and round which gets annoying. 

This was a really interesting look at the behind the scenes of Heartstopper and how the creative process developed for the series. I also thought the bonus scenes and art were cute!

This was such a lovely and deep read. It makes me want to start dancing again just for the joy of it.

This was an interesting look into something I didn’t know about the Brontë siblings. It makes me want to read their original writings about it now. This graphic novel was very well done I feel.

This was so weird and I need more. Big House of Leaves vibes. Want to create one of those crazy conspiracy theory boards with red yarn just to piece everything together.

Somehow this has only become more important and relevant since it came out. If you ever added this to a want to read list or bought it back in 2017 but still haven’t read it, please do it now. Even if you go slow. It focuses on Britain’s racial history but is so applicable to everything everywhere now. We all just have to do something.

Bought this on a whim because the writing style drew me in so fast. I really enjoyed it and as someone who fought against parental abuse or control, it was a good look at why others don’t. 

This series is the only thing keeping me going at this point