visenyasdragon's reviews
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This one started our pretty well, with an interesting heroine going on a grand adventure to save her community. Very quickly she kind of forgot that she has to find the cure, and instead spent most of the book romancing the king of the mysterious island. There was no character development to her - she started out as she began, beautiful and perfect, only a little more annoying. It irked me how she attempted to save the faeries that tried to kill her lover just minutes before?!? Like girl, get a grip. I loved the cozy vibes and descriptions, but could do with a little bit more. The characters beside the main two could also be a little more fleshed out, given some flaws etc. In the end, we don't get a resolution, the plague is not cured bc deals with the Fae apparently mean nothing in this universe despite a great deal being made of them. 

  okay this fucking slapped. granted, the common accusations of false advertising in this book are probably well-founded, but i read it on kindle, so i barely ever saw the fluffly summery cover while reading. i myself loved it and could not put it down, despite the heavy subject matter. most of the time it felt almost like something that could happen in real life, which is a rarity in this genre i think?

honestly i don't think someone like 23yo gus would fancy someone like january, brooding guys at this age just don't function that way,

but their relationship at the lake houses was both believable and compelling. i also loved the pace, not too slow and not too fast, with just the perfect amount of introspection. the humor was a little stale though, and also there was a little of this overwrought time travelers wife-style romantic melodrama at the end, but i feel like that is to be expected with an american romance book, so i let it slide. if not for those, it would have been a full five star 

i honestly can't believe most of the reviews on here and how popular this book is. it started off with disgusting nazi apologetic vibes, like why should i feel bad for the nazi people of dresden for dying awful deaths when their concentration camps were so much worse? is that what we're doing now, feeling sorry for fucking nazis? anyway, i stopped at 38% because i felt this really wasn't going anywhere useful, and i have hundreds of better books to read. B Y E. i honestly can't believe this is a classic. it definitely shouldn't be a classic - the characters are stupidly flat, the settings are barely described, and the language is atrocious. this is not how you write a book!!

too boring, too much description, characters are pretty flat and i just don't really care about them