Twin Peaks, if you don't know, is a TV show that aired in 1990 with two seasons and a feature film. And now, 25 years later, it has returned for a thTwin Peaks, if you don't know, is a TV show that aired in 1990 with two seasons and a feature film. And now, 25 years later, it has returned for a third season. I started watching it because of the return and... I got obsessed. When I heard that there was a novel about the show wrritten by the series co-creator, it went immediately to my Amazon wishlist. Basically, without spoiling and without ruining the experience of this book, it's a dossier, written by someone named The Archivist, collecting historical documents and articles that somehow are connected to Agent Copper's investigation on the murder of Laura Palmer. The dossier is also annotated by and FBI agent named TP, who is trying to figure out who this Archivist guy is. I was expecting to enjoy it, but I wasn't expecting to love it as much as I did. I'm so excited to read the sequel that's coming out in October of 2017. There are also a lot things that I didn't really understand, but, then again, that's the way with Twin Peaks.
review 2017 4.5 So, it took me a long time to write this review since I had to gather all of my thoughts and feelings about this book. T2021 re-read 3.5
review 2017 4.5 So, it took me a long time to write this review since I had to gather all of my thoughts and feelings about this book. The first thing I want to say is, I know these books, like all Sarah J Maas's books, are problematic. There is a huge lack of diversity in her books, but at least with this one, you can see that she is trying and listening to her fans, which a lot of authors don´t do. I didn't enjoy this one as much as ACOMAF, which was a bit of a disappointment. In fact, for the majority of the book I thought this was going to be a 4-star read, but THOSE LAST 100 PAGES! Overall, I think this was a perfect ending for Feyre and Rhys's story (since we're going to have 3 new books about other characters)....more
“Fight because you don't know how to die quietly. Win because you don't know how to lose. This king's ruled long enough—it's time to tear his castle d“Fight because you don't know how to die quietly. Win because you don't know how to lose. This king's ruled long enough—it's time to tear his castle down.”
So!! I finally reread the All For the Game series, and honestly? It was probably one of the smartest decisions I've made all year because I forgot how much I LOVE these books.
Objectively, these books aren't the best, they definitely have issues and are a little problematic at times, but they are just so much fun to read?
What makes this series great is the characters, and their growth, and their relationships. Even though this is my third reread, I still started the first book disliking everyone, but by the end of the third book, I would die for all of the Foxes. I love the character development that everyone, but especially Neil, goes through in these books.
While yes, this series is about the mafia and sports that don’t exist, it's more about how a group of misfits band together, despite their traumas, and choose to work together. It's about friendship and family and believing in yourself.
Also, these books made me care about sports?? I am not an athletic/sports person at all. I don't care about them, but reading The Foxhole Court made me understand people that care so much about sports. Reading the Exy matches had me at the edge of my seat.
I really forgot how much this series made me FEEL and how much I love the final book. The King's Men is not only one of my favorite books of all time but definitely one of the best series finales I've read. It just concludes everything perfectly.
Even though I wouldn't mind if there were more because I would love to see the Foxes just being happy and not having to suffer because they go through so much in these books.
(Also, I totally counted how many times Neil said I'm fine while he was, in fact, not fine at all, and it was a total of about 30 times over the three books)
If you've never read this series before, I do really recommend them, but it's important to check all of the trigger warnings because there are LOTS of them....more
re-read 2021 For scientific purposes, I'm keeping track of how many times Neil Josten says "I'm fine" while he is, in fact, not fine, so far, seven tire-read 2021 For scientific purposes, I'm keeping track of how many times Neil Josten says "I'm fine" while he is, in fact, not fine, so far, seven times in this first book....more
reread 2021 I finally finished my reread of Crooked Kingdom yesterday, so like I did with Six of Crows, here's a slightly rambly review!! This is reread 2021 I finally finished my reread of Crooked Kingdom yesterday, so like I did with Six of Crows, here's a slightly rambly review!! This is my second time reading Crooked Kingdom, and while I remembered most of what happened in Six of Crows before my reread, I truly did not remember anything from this book except how it ended. And I'm so glad I decided to reread it because this book is incredible. While the first book is more of a classic type of heist, with a more straightforward story, Crooked Kingdom is so much more complex. There are several heists that the characters do throughout the novel and so many plot twists. I love these characters so much, and this sequel concludes all of the character development that Leigh Bardugo established in the first book that makes everything come full circle. Usually, series finales are always my favorite. I think there's something so powerful and emotional that comes with the end of a story, and Crooked Kingdom is one of the best series finales I've ever read. (I know that apparently, Leigh is one day going to write a third book, but from what I've heard, it's only going to be released years down the line, so I'm still counting this book as the finale). It's such a well-paced story; I read the entire second half of the book in one day because I just could not stop reading. And even though this was a reread, some of the twists made me gasp out loud, which rarely happens. I'm so excited to see the Crows on the show this Friday!! Every teaser we get of them makes me even more excited for it!!!
original review 2017 After pulling an impossible heist in the notorious Ice Court, Kaz Brekker and his crew of outcasts try to rescue Inej and to pick up the money that's rightfully theirs from the hands of the mercher Jan Van Eck, all in the bustling streets of Ketterdam. Now, after having read all of Leigh Bardugo's novels in the Grishaverse, I have to say that this one and this series is her best work. I'm definitely glad I read Shadow and Bone before I finished his duology. I loved seeing some of our characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy, like Genya, Zoya, Tamar, and, of course, Strumhond. There was never a dull moment in this book, there wasn't any part of the book in which I wanted the story to move along. Finally, in this one, we get Wylan's point of view, since he is one of my favorites of the crew, and after thinking about it, it makes sense why his POV wasn't on the first book. In the first one, we only get to see the crew planning one big heist, which is the one on The Ice Court, and in this one, we get to see them making all of these little heists all throughout the city. Talking about Ketterdam, it was a perfect setting for this book. In Six of Crows, we spend only part of the book in the Kerch city, so I loved how in this one all the story is set in this one specific place. Not only that but in Crooked Kingdom, this world is expanded so much. It was a perfect ending for these characters. The plot wrapped up so nicely. There were also several moments that made me tear up, some of them sad, some of them happy. (view spoiler)[Mostly Matthias's and Inej's ending. (hide spoiler)] Despite things being wrapped up nicely, there were definitely some things that were left unresolved. (view spoiler)[Mostly the Shu plotline. (hide spoiler)] Which I suppose will be explored in the Nikolai duology, which I'm super excited about!...more
first read 2017 Tower of Dawn, if you don't know, is the sixth book on Throne of Glass series, but really it's kind of book 5.5. Chaol, one of thefirst read 2017 Tower of Dawn, if you don't know, is the sixth book on Throne of Glass series, but really it's kind of book 5.5. Chaol, one of the major characters in the series does not appear in book five Empire of Storms, for reasons, which I won't spoil. It was originally going to be a novella, but then, it turned into a novel. It's not a secret that, despite all of the problematic things, I love Sarah J. Maas's books. But, to be honest, I wasn't all that excited for this book, I mean I was still going to read it on the release date but while I loved Chaol on the first books, for some reason, I didn't care about his character all that much in books 3 & 4, especially after my re-read. But surprisingly it was VERY good. Talking about the representation in this book, almost all of the characters in this book besides Chaol is POC, which is great and shows that Sarah J. Maas is listening to her fans. And since I can't talk about the disability representation, I've heard it was really good. I'm going to link some reviews at the end by people who have similar disabilities. Talking about the positives, this book reminded me how much I loved Chaol in the first books, this book is definitely for anyone who was once a Chaol and/or Chaolena fan. Also, this book ended up having one of my favorite ships of this whole series I'm not going to ruin it for you but I LOVED THEM SO MUCH. Like with Empire of Storms, you definitely HAVE to read The Assassin's Blade before you read this. And you also HAVE to read this to be able to read book 7. The only things that I didn't like were the pacing, the first 150 hundred pages were so slow, but those last 200 hundred pages made the 5-star rating. I really didn't like Nesryn in this one, she was okay in Queen of Shadows but for some reason, I hated most of her chapters, I was just waiting for we to have another Chaol or Yrene chapter. This one surprised me so much, it was so good. And that last chapter made me so pumped for the final book, it's going to be my most anticipated read of 2018, and I'm most probably going to cry at the end of this series.
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