I didn't have it in myself to go with grace And so the battleships will sink beneath the waves You had to kill me, but it kill
when blondie said:
I didn't have it in myself to go with grace And so the battleships will sink beneath the waves You had to kill me, but it killed you just the same Cursing my name, wishing I stayed You turned into your worst fears And you're tossing out blame, drunk on this pain Crossing out the good years And you're cursing my name, wishing I stayed Look at how my tears ricochet
she was talking about rinezha.
every page of this book gave me another kind of trauma. I'm fucking ruined for eternity....more
i won't go as far as to call it a particularly bad book (because i can see why some people may like it); howthis book definitely didn't "speak to me".
i won't go as far as to call it a particularly bad book (because i can see why some people may like it); however, after the first 100 pages i was bored out of my mind.
˗ˏˋ ꒰ the writing ꒱ ˎˊ˗
first off, the the writing. we have a past timeline and a present timeline. and it just felt so boring to keep reading again and again about their past trips. i was this close to gouging my eyes out with a fork.
i wanted to read about the present because the past didn't have anything special. it was just them vacationing again and again and overtly long, nonsense, 3 paragraph long descriptions of useless things.
˗ˏˋ ꒰ the stupid vacations ꒱ ˎˊ˗
the thing is: there wasn't anything special happening in their past trips. they're just sprinkled with a conversation between the two protagonists and then long explanations about how a stupid museum looks like, what they're currently doing, their exes, some random thing about one of their families etc. we read the same sequence for a total of 8 times.
˗ˏˋ ꒰ no build-up ꒱ ˎˊ˗
poppy keeps referring to her attraction to alex as a 5% in all the "past" chapters. do we see that 5% grow? NO. there was no angst. no build-up. nothing. they just went from platonic to intimate in the blink of an eye. i actually thought i'd missed something big.
i was so CONFUSED. i looked like this: [image]
˗ˏˋ ꒰ stupidity 101 ꒱ ˎˊ˗
the "big reason" itself was SO. DAMN. STUPID. please ignore this if you consider it a spoiler but the main reason they didn't talk for two years is because they ... (view spoiler)[kissed (hide spoiler)]. that's it.
no literally. i can feel you laughing. but i'm not joking. that was it.
you're telling me that a person you've been friends with for 8+ years, a person you love with your entire heart, your best friend - you'd stop talking to them instead of trying to idk? talk about it....more
ehhhhhh whatever. This book added zero value to the plot. It's the fact that i completed the entire book but felt literally nothing from start to finiehhhhhh whatever. This book added zero value to the plot. It's the fact that i completed the entire book but felt literally nothing from start to finish ugh. Boring.
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this !! is !! a !! fan !! service !! Talk to the wall. WHY ARE PEOPLE BEING SO EMO ABOUT THIS SIMPLE TRUTH?? YOU CANNOT DENY THE TRUTH??? In my opinion, it's perfectly fine if an author DOES use the popularity of their own work and decides to write more about it. Period. It's THEIR work (but like - stop bashing people just because they're speaking what's right infront of their eyes lmao)
However, the first book was supposed to be about ABUSE. Right? But when you write a second book focused solely on the romantic aspect YOU ARE FEEDING THE PEOPLE TRYING TO ROMANTICIZE YOUR BOOK. YOU ARE GIVING THEM MATERIAL ON WHOSE BASIS THEY CAN GO "wee !! yay !! Atlas !!" whenever your book is mentioned :/ ...more
i'm a horrible person who dreams of killing children at night so i probably deserve every kind of pain and hardship that this world can inflict upon mi'm a horrible person who dreams of killing children at night so i probably deserve every kind of pain and hardship that this world can inflict upon me
but
i did not deserve that. Look at how my tears ricochet @R.F. Kuang....more
this book, right here, is literally one of my favourite romance novels and simply overall - one of my favourite books of all time. it has become such this book, right here, is literally one of my favourite romance novels and simply overall - one of my favourite books of all time. it has become such a comfort read, i can literally open this book anywhere anytime and you'd find me smiling and giggling god ...more
(This is going to be my review for this series as a whole)
Words cannot express the amount of love and adoration i h➼ 4.75 stars (for the whole series)
(This is going to be my review for this series as a whole)
Words cannot express the amount of love and adoration i have for this entire series. I remember how i was avoiding this series at first. My thoughts were along the lines of: "FBI Agent falls in love with a criminal. Nice, but i'll pass". But one of my friends convinced me to read this and i finally gave in. I still remember the day i started reading this series. Needless to say, i was hooked from the first page - and this is not a statement i use lightly. Rarely do books ever grip my attention from the start. But this one did.
It's a gorgeous gorgeous book. Calling it a romance seems like i'm somehow undermining all the other things in this book. It's so much more than a romance. It's about revenge, about friendship, about justice, about the sheer cruelty of this world. I never knew i was this big a fan of brutal revenge until i read this series. It had me crying, it had me smiling, at some points i got literal goosebumps all over my body.
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ The Writing:
The writing is so easy to get into. And moreover, it is simplistic but still manages to make you feel so so much. I didn't expect the revenge to be this descriptive but it was and i'm literally so thankful that it was, because some people totally deserve that type of revenge - in fact they deserve worse. The chapters are short and easy to read. You'll absolutely fly through the book, i can assure you.
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ The Plot:
Yes, yes - criminal commits murder and torture of some specific people, falls in love with the FBI agent who is literally leading the search against her. That's what the premise says. But the story is all that and so much more. The reveals, the way the past comes to light as we move through the book and face different series of events ughhh even talking about it is making me want to re-read the series because it's just so infinitely clever.
The way everything fits so perfectly and wraps up ...more
The AGGGTM TV show made a lot of decisions. And nearly all of them were bad ones. The only good thing about them, though, is that they made me realizeThe AGGGTM TV show made a lot of decisions. And nearly all of them were bad ones. The only good thing about them, though, is that they made me realize the strong points of this book.
˗ˏˋ ꒰ 1. pip's brilliance ꒱ ˎˊ˗
If anyone other than Pip had taken on this case in the book, they wouldn't have been able to solve it. It's her way of thinking, her character that serves as the basis for why she was able to crack the case. The book was what it was because Pip solved everything; it was Pip who saw things no one else could. In short, it was Pip's brilliance that solved the case.
But in the TV show—her brilliance just isn’t there. Anyone could’ve been in her place, and they might have potentially solved the case too. I couldn't feel those "big brain" moments in the TV show that I could so naturally associate with book Pip.
It's stark when you compare the two. Book Pip was a force of nature. TV show Pip was just—eh.
˗ˏˋ ꒰ 2. book ravi vs. tv show ravi ꒱ ˎˊ˗
One thing I liked about book Ravi was that he shined on his own but never overshadowed Pip. He added to her ideas, helped her when needed, but it was always Team Ravi and Pip.
TV show Ravi, on the other hand—oh god, I couldn't even feel any chemistry between them. Their relationship and his character as portrayed in the show was so disappointing to me.
˗ˏˋ ꒰ 3. the relationship between pip and her stepdad ꒱ ˎˊ˗
I LOVED the relationship between Pip and Victor in the book. Her love and trust for him, his "pickle" nickname for her...more
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