I read this in one sitting because it was just adorable and Keltie is just so cute. I watch The Owl House so I know how gay this is gonna be (spoiler I read this in one sitting because it was just adorable and Keltie is just so cute. I watch The Owl House so I know how gay this is gonna be (spoiler alert: it's hella gay). ...more
**spoiler alert** Oh my god. I'm a wreck now it seems like there is gonna be a third Six of Crows book in the making from the ending. ----------------**spoiler alert** Oh my god. I'm a wreck now it seems like there is gonna be a third Six of Crows book in the making from the ending. ---------------------------- I will just talk about things I don't like first. - So The Darkling has come back but his storyline seems unnecessary. I read his pov in the second part of the book and it did nothing for me. He didn't do anything other than pray, literally. I still hate that the Darkling being brought back for no reason, he didn't serve any purpose other than that he was just there to fix the Fold, which he was the one created. - David is fucking dead but his death doesn't make any progress for anything, it just makes us hate the author for a moment and feels rage for Genya because she deserves better. I hate that she was the one who suffered. And it was on their wedding day !! Unbelieveable. - I was hoping for Nina to use her awesome power at the end when Zoya saved her. Things I like: - Zoya my queen. I love that she is the dragon queen now. Ravka needs a strong queen like that. And this book is more about Zoya's journey than Nikolai and I'm okay with it. - Nina and Hanne relationship. I feel bad because I kinda prefer them to the old ship. - Nina got away with things because of lessons from Kaz. - Hanne mastering the art of tailoring. - Nikolai and Zoya relationship. It was not tropey at all.
The first part was so dull and it took half of the book. This book is just over 300 pages at it took more than a half of it to describe Angrboda's domThe first part was so dull and it took half of the book. This book is just over 300 pages at it took more than a half of it to describe Angrboda's domestic life. Like bruh I didn't ask for this. ...more
Actual rating: 4,5 stars This book is pure agony. The agony that the protagonist had to endure is so real it hit me. I didn't know this had all the taActual rating: 4,5 stars This book is pure agony. The agony that the protagonist had to endure is so real it hit me. I didn't know this had all the talk about God and Christianity. I am glad that they didn't lose their faith or make Christianity a bad ref, I mean the bible is an old book that can be intercepted in any meaning you wanted. Hannah and Baker's pain really made this book hard to read their pain, their shame, and their self-hate really had us hate the cruel world that they were living in, the world where they should have the right to love whoever they want without shame and hate. All through the book, we see how Hannah treats herself, how always asks God questions for an answer but doesn't get any but she didn't stop believing in God. I'm glad this book made the parents so understandable and still love them despite their beliefs. ...more
I love it. I love the historical details that the author adds. I love the sexuality discovery journey of Lily. The historical aspect is interesting buI love it. I love the historical details that the author adds. I love the sexuality discovery journey of Lily. The historical aspect is interesting but it can't seem to connect with the main plot in my opinion. The one thing I dislike most about this book is Kath being a character. She is pretty plain and has no personality whatsoever. I feel like she has fallen into pixie manic dream girl trope. I hope the author has extended more to see what happened after the event at the end of the book. (view spoiler)[ If we saw Kath's letters to Lily I think we could understand Kath's character more and not her being a character device for Lily (hide spoiler)]...more
Sometimes August thinks Jane looks like a watercolor painting, fluid and lovely, darker in places, bleeding through the page. Right now, the warm s
Sometimes August thinks Jane looks like a watercolor painting, fluid and lovely, darker in places, bleeding through the page. Right now, the warm shadows of her eyes look like a heavy downstroke.
This book is: 70% of yearning 25% of amazing adopted parents, and 5% of kissing. Ugh this book destroyed me. I need help now. I love the characters in this book: I love August, she is so relatable with her gay panic for Jane, her loneliness, her uncertainty for her future career after graduation. I love Niko and Myla, the adopted parents that I want to have, they have such great vibes and Niko is a psychic!! I love Jane for her kindness and her spirit, she has to struggle as well, she is the witness to each important event in American history in the 50s-70s (the protest, the riot all of it) and she has to live through it twice via her memories, the lost all of her friends because she got stuck, omg you gorgeous lesbian angel :< I just want to give you a hug. The plot: The sci-fi aspect in this book is great, it kinda reminds me of Doctor Who. And the plot gives the character such yearning. At the beginning of the book, we see that August is struggle with being alone and not fit in with her previous destinations but in New York, where all the weirdos live. She has found her new family in her roommates at a flat above Popeyes Chicken (I just wanna say that I love that they live above Popeyes because Popeyes is the best), and she found Jane, Jane was the reason she felt love and meaning for life. (view spoiler)[ I love the parallel at the end about the note Jane wrote about august compare to August's thought about Q. Q is a time, a place, a person to August, and August is a time, a place, a person to Jane. Ahh it was so romantic. I love it so much (hide spoiler)]. ...more
I was sobbing. This book was so good in portraying grief I loved it. I always love the author's writing and I'm glad this time the author still has thI was sobbing. This book was so good in portraying grief I loved it. I always love the author's writing and I'm glad this time the author still has the ability to make me cry. I just want to give every character in this book a warm hug. ...more
How do I explain to her that grief is not really something you cheer up from ? It's a quarry of dark rock walls and even darker water.
How do I
How do I explain to her that grief is not really something you cheer up from ? It's a quarry of dark rock walls and even darker water.
How do I summary this book. Well it is about an angry lesbian who deals with grief. I like this book about how she can find the work that can channel her anger and grief even though it doesn't what she has planned in the first place. But we have to do anything we can to cope so I can respect that. What I doesn't like about this book is how her sister questioning her sexuallity. "It could be like that if you'd open your mind. If you decided to be straight, you'd never have to cheat on Vivi" Okay but how can she decide to be straight anyway, what is that even mean. I really just hated it in that moment. It is not cool to use her friend even when you are grieving and that's exactly what Jess did and it really difficult to fathom that part. Overall, I like the book but it is not that great for me to love it because of my issue with the language the slurs being used like it is nothing and the stuffs I mention above. ...more
I'm not ... I'm not ashamed of it. It's who I am. I'm comfortable being a lesbian. I'm just ... I'm just not a spectacle
Actual rating: 4,25 sta
I'm not ... I'm not ashamed of it. It's who I am. I'm comfortable being a lesbian. I'm just ... I'm just not a spectacle
Actual rating: 4,25 stars. This is a heart warming and cute but also serious book about a gay Muslim girl with a sister for a best friend. She is really into her culture and she values it really highly hence a war she starts because of it. She has this massive crush for a Brazilian-Irish girl she used to know from elementary school well get what she goes to Nishat's Catholic school now. So that is when the drama started. We might hate Nishat or we might not hate her (mostly of her pettiness) but we cannot deny that we awed her for her bravery in dealing with racism and homophobic. And she is really hilarious. Her sarcastic tone while dealing with people taking about her heritage or sexuality really makes me like her.
"Muslims aren't gay" she whispers, like this is a hard and fast rule. She's still turned away from me, looking out the window like the outside world will have some solution to my lesbian problem. I would laugh if this weren't such a ridiculous claim
On Saturday I wake up with butterflies in my stomach. These butterfiles are completely different from the ones I feel because of Flávia; around her, I feel anxious in a pleasant way. Like I'm going to throw up but at least there's pretty in front of me. Now I just want to throw up.
Her sister is also a really supportive character and even though she did some problematic thing I still love her for being there for Nishat when disaster went down. I don't know why the author didn't (view spoiler)[ let the book solve the sabotage or the message that outed Nishat (hide spoiler)] Overall the author has done an amazing things in lacing the romance while taking about the serious stuff that the minority has to faced like racism or what a gay Muslim has to deal with when he/she is committing something still considered a death penalty in their home country. ...more
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
Actual rating: 4,5 stars. I cried
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
Actual rating: 4,5 stars. I cried a little at the end This is a lovely book. I'm touched and I'm glad that my friend has brought this as a present for me because it's the perfect gift for whom love to read. A.J reminded me of Ove and Maya reminded me of Maya Hart. I love that there were a lot of parts that were quotable. ...more
Still love this after a reread. This book has helped me so much with my sexual orientation. Thank you Alice for this amazing book. -------------------Still love this after a reread. This book has helped me so much with my sexual orientation. Thank you Alice for this amazing book. ------------------------------------------------ Buddy read: Carla I was supposed to wait for my friends but I can't help myself when it comes to this book and I'm weak. Oh my god I love this book so much. This book is every to me. I connect to the character in a spiritual level not gonna lie. And I'm going to write a review worthy of this book because I cannot tell you how grateful I am for Loveless. ---------------------------------------
Like the way friendship can be just as intense, beautiful and endless as romance. Like the way there's love everywhere around me - there's love my friends, there's love in my paintings, there's love for myself.
Rating: 5/5 stars because this book deserved it and more. When I just started to read chapter 2 Romance, I instantly knew that I loved this book to piece. It has mentioned Korrasami. Yes and I only need that to make a point to myself. This was my most anticipated book this year and I knew at the moment Alice Oseman announced it I would love it. And I did. I can't tell how much I appreciate Alice for the aromantic asexual presentation. I only know these phrases from the internet but Oseman really put those words in her work with a character that I can be related. I have never felt this related and understood since Eliza and Her Monsters. If Eliza and Her Monsters helps me with understanding my anxiety, Loveless has helped me with accepting my sexuality. Loveless is written by an aro ace author so I think the representation in this is valid. This has been a privilege for me to found this book, during the time I read this book I felt seen, I felt appreciated, I felt the author had done the characters right. I feel so relatable with Georgia,her quite personality, her confusion, how she yearns for love, I've even been though some of what she has experienced. When she talked about how love is even felt like it was so relatable I wanted to scream.
I had no idea what 'liking someone like that' was even supposed to feel like
How was I supposed to know that ? What the fuck was the spark? What did the spark even feel like?
Georgia has done some fucked up thing. But I fully understand her. I know that sometime when you read all those fanfics and watches all those romcom movies you think that your friendship with your friend can be as intense and you think it can be romance if you try. I understand that so much I have been confused by it as well but no it didn't work like that. And Georgia has finally realized that. And even though she did struggle with that realization she knew that all her dream, all her fantasy has been fake, she grew and she accepted what she can have in her life. And she understood that she would never be loveless for as long as she has her family and her wonderful friends. Other characters are also amazing. I love Pip and Rooney's banter, I love Pip as an theater nerd and a panic lesbian 24/7, her panic moment is really cute and I do love a good rivals to lovers story line. I love to read about Rooney's struggle in friendship and in relationship. Sunil is such an asexual angel and a great college parent to Georgia. He helped her when she didn't even know she needed it. I love how he has help her understand what she has struggled, and he didn't judge her for her feelings. He is really a precious character.
The aromantic and asexual spectrums weren't just straight lines. They were radar charts with at least a dozen different axes
I really love how the author portrayed asexual, she lets the character experiences so they can understand and they can grow. So they can realize that romance isn't something that for everyone and it's okay. It doesn't mean they are loveless. It's just that the world overvalued romance, but it isn't your fault. I love how the author let us see other love, love that can be as powerful as romantic love. Romance is not everything same with sex. Be happy for what you are and be proud of it. It deserves to be celebrated....more
This is so beautiful. It isn't just about love it's also about friendship, family and the fact that it's never easy to be a person to lead a revolutioThis is so beautiful. It isn't just about love it's also about friendship, family and the fact that it's never easy to be a person to lead a revolution but it's easier to care and to be open minded. It's easy to ignore the people being bullied right in front of your eyes but it takes courage to stand up for what you think is right....more
too many grown-ups tell kids to follow their dreams like that’s going to get them somewhere Auntie Laurie says follow your nightmares instead cuz when
too many grown-ups tell kids to follow their dreams like that’s going to get them somewhere Auntie Laurie says follow your nightmares instead cuz when you figure out what’s eating you alive you can slay it
I cried. I still get angry when I thought about it I hate that I feel useless I hate that the world is still a cruel place and full of terror I want to make thing better.
Huhu this book is so good. And it was really powerful. It's raw and it gets you. It's realistic and it makes you want to change the world....more
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