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I love a great world with relatable characters who seem realistic, even if they are fantastical.
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City of Ashes
With a Bullet
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Bridget Jones: Elämäni sinkkuna
Night Shift
Oh, man. I liked this series, I liked the reject characters from Harris' previous series, I liked the style, I generally just like the author's style. I was so hoping this last in the series would have been edgy and awesome and really satisfying considering it concludes the story of Midnight, at least for now, but no. I was optimistic until the last quarter of the book, when Fiji started feeling more and more like a really predictable Mary Sue and not the interesting character I had taken her for until then. And the "climax" of the book, oh god, it was so gringe-worthy to me. I think I actually rolled my eyes. I'm so sad about this, I hope I hadn't read the third book and had left it at the second.
Four stars for the first three quarters of the book, two for the final one. So, have a grudging three out of five.
How To Be a Normal Person
Silly, adorable, ridiculous, and funny. I laughed out loud on several occasions (and I also shed a tear or two.) Klune just has this way of writing that is incredibly real to me, even with a book such as this that's borderline absurd at points.What is normal and why would you want to be that? Should you try to change yourself to better fit what you think other people want from you? Is it worth it to put your guard down and let other people in, even though you've been shattered by loss before?
This book had a nice approach to weed, even if drugs are not something I really want or need in my own personal life. Also, the romantic interest of the main character was asexual, which is something I've never come across in a book before.
Simply put - I loved this. Not the best Klune I've read, but I think I'm incapable of disliking anything he's written.
Hypnotisoija
took me a long time to finish reading this one for some reason. maybe it was the narration, maybe it was the characters. i enjoyed the parts from joona's pov, but erik and simone's not so much. a good mystery/thriller but not even close to a great one.
Wolfsong
I bought the book expecting a fluffy piece of m/m romance (my guilty pleasure) and instead got a buttload of the feels. I stayed up reading till four am, crying ugly, snotty tears for a good portion of the story. I also smiled, and laughed, and feared, and got mad, and frustrated, and had hearts in my eyes. Just wow.This book was so beautifully written (especially considering how cringe-worthy some of the "romance literature" out there is). The world-building was exemplary, the pacing amazing and the characters so whole and real. It was so gorgeous, and it's such a shame that so many people will miss out on this story because on the surface it's about werewolves (and not even straight ones).
The world and character dynamics were so well thought out that mostly I forgot that there are no such things as werewolves in real life. In reality, this was more a story of what family and friendship means, and how big of an impact the words you are subjected to as a child have on you through out your life. This was a story about loyalty and love and I have just added everything else Klune has published on my to-read list, because just, wow.
Uncharted Waters
I really enjoyed the dialogue and pacing of the book. Maybe not the most realistic piece (but then, do we really expect realism from straight-to-gay romance novels?) but it was still funny and almost relatable. A nice, quick, light summer vacation read. Delivered more than I expected.
Numeropeli
No tulihan tämäkin lopulta luettua. Juoni oli kiinnostaava, mutta rasittavat hahmot ja epäuskottavat dialogi ja paikoitellen kömpelösti kirjoitettu ja/tai käännetty kerronta latistivat tämän omalla kohdallani lukukokemuksena. Ei kovin suurta kiinnostusta lukea sarjan seuraavaa osaa.
N.P.
Tuntuu, että tämä kirja olisi enemmän kolmen ja puolen kuin vain kolmen tähden arvoinen, mutta vaihtoehdoista "liked it" ja "really liked it" osuu ensimmäinen lähemmäs maalia. N.P. oli minulle lukukokemuksena unenomainen ja kaunis, mutta en missään vaiheessa oiken saanut siitä kunnolla kiinni. Muistaakseni pidin Yoshimoton Kitchenistä aika paljon, ja kirjailijan ääni on tässäkin tuttu ja miellyttävä. Tarina itsessään jäi vain itselleni liian ohueksi, tarina koostui välähdyksistä ja pätkistä, jä näinkin kiinnostavan pohjan omaava tarina olisi kaivannut mielestäni vähän jykevämmät raamit. Mutta joka tapauksessa ihan kiva lyhyt välipala jolla oli hyvä startata kirjavuosi käyntiin.
Murder in Pastel
An okay Lanyon. Not the best, not the worst. It helps knowing the background of the book, especially having read Lanyon's other works - otherwise the similarities would be too much.
Day Shift
I'll give this a four, even though it might not deserve it on a scale of all the books ever written. It is, however, worthy of four out of five within it's genre (at least in my book) so there you go. I enjoy Harris' characters and the atmosphere of her books (maybe barring the Aurora Teagarden books), and the books are infinitely entertaining. I also like the mismash of the random characters from the previous series.
Herääminen
Aihe oli tosi kiinnostava, toteutus not so much. Hieno taidonnäyte siitä, mitä överiksi vedetyt juonenkäänteet ja poikkeuksellisen huono dialogi / hahmokehitys tekee muuten niin lupaavalle tarinalle.
The Girl on the Train: A Novel
An interesting mystery in the vein of Gone Girl and Memento. Maybe I'd have preferred a few less clues so that the culprit would have remained a mystery for longer, but all in all the story was good. I don't think I liked a single one of the characters, but they definitely conformed to my cynical view of human nature. The insight into an alcoholics mindset was very believable.
All in all, this was a well written and interesting mystery, if not exactly mindblowing. Definitely worth the read.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Once upon a time I watched the movie and was unimpressed. The film was pretty loyal to the book, but this is a story better experienced from the inside, rather than observed from the outside. Not my favourite from Clarke but definitely worth reading.
Ready Player One
I'll give this one a solid three and a half stars. Not as good as I expected, but in hindsight that's more than likely because Ready Player One is a YA book and I didn't realize this before hand, so certain aspects that I found juvenile I would probably have enjoyed had I read this as a teenager.What I most enjoyed about this book was OASIS itself. The idea of isn't completely new, but I still liked it. I wouldn't mind living it either. The constant eightes references made me wanna look up TV-shows and movies I haven't watched in ages and listen to music I haven't ever really been that drawn to.
Despite not being that impressed by the characters or some of the plot (everything was just a little too easy for my liking) the story still managed to keep me reading well past midnight to find out how the hunt eventually ended. So all in all a good book, just not a great one for me.
The Martian
Mark Watney is pretty much MacGyver stranded by himself on Mars. He's funny, resilient, and endlessly resourceful. Nothing defeats him and he's always got a plan (even when all the plan amounts to is "figuring out what to do next".) Goes without saying that I really really liked this book. I laughed out loud on many occasion, I was anxious to find out how he was going to survive, I was sad for the other crewmates - I just felt a lot while reading this, and for me that is a mark of a good story. The topic was also interesting to me, and at least for someone with no background in physics the science seemed plausible. I need more contemporary scifi like this.
Light from the Dark
Entertaining enuough to keep me reading till the end and also original enough to not have me guess the culprit until the actual reveal. Not amazing linguistically but that wasn't really what I was looking for, either.
