hystericalcheezit

So much for normal.

 

Shit, I love these books so much, and I am so tempted to give it five stars, but shhhh I won't give into temptation. But it did, surprisingly, invoke emotion in me (which, okay, isn't really that hard), but I didn't expect it to so props to you.

 

Basically, kids - don't lie to your boy/girlfriend, mmk? And that boy constantly bouncing place to place through fairyland probs isn't all that he seems.

 

 

(Oh - shelves to be added once they've all imported.)

(I'm not really sure how Booklikes works. Bear with me.)

 

(Rest of shelves will be added when they are finished importing.)

 

I hated this book and it annoyed me and I am definitely not reading the next books. 

 

Though as I say that I realize that - fuck, I'm probably going to do it anyway.

 

Maybe at a later date I will explain why I hated it so much, but basically my head hurts because of all that hate I feel for it, and I literally could puke right now.

 

 

here is my goodreads review of it with all the shelves intact and reading updates.

As soon as I read the name I recognized it as the author who wrote the Bartimaeus books.

The cover for this really pisses me off.

Does it count as ownership if I have the PDF saved on my computer?

I read the last 259 pages this morning and finished it at nearly 4am. I am not okay. I do not want to talk about it.(This is my guilty pleasure series, to be honest.)Okay, FINE, I'll do a little review.Firstly, I could rip the book in half for how annoying Lugh was. Like, yeah man, I get it, but it's still annoying as shit. Also like what kind of weird love square type thing is this???? Like, okay. The things that happen in this book are so weird, is the thing. You don't expect it, and yet you do expect it at the same time. It's just weird. But, UGH, the writing style! It draws me in and sucks me in and I just sink down into it until I become the story, until I am Saba, until I feel everything she feels except for the moments when I yell at her or the other characters FOR UGH BEING SO DAMN STUPID/ANNOYING/ETC. For instance, I was right about Jack, and I KNEW I was right about Jack, and I was angry at Saba for doubting herself and the others (especially Lugh) for making her doubt herself and then I actually DID start doubting him because I sank so far into Saba and then with fucking DeMalo the freaking description of him, God, I may've fell in love a little bit. But the entire time she was with him I kept screaming (silently or quietly, seeing as how it was after 12am as I read this) for her to STOP IT GO BACK THINK OF EMMI FOR FUCK SAKES WATER YOU DOIN' GURL?????????? but uh yeah.Also I feel as if this author just finds it entirely too necessary to kill a character at the end of every book. WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME. Dammit. /whispers. Damn it all to hell...No, but honest to God I do love this series and honest to God it is my guilty pleasure. Also, pertaining to the whole DeMalo/Saba fiasco: It reminded me of something. I mean, I know it reminded me of the Books of Pellinor w/e and I know for what reason, but there's also this thing nagging at me, this niggling feeling inkling of knowledge that it reminds me of something else too? I don't know.__________Better than The Hunger Games. Yes, I agree, but...did you really put it in the cover?

I read the first five pages of the excerpt and it seems kinda interesting, but from what I've seen of reviews, the end of the book is not so good, so I don't know if I want to put myself through a book just to find a terrible finish.

/throws hands in the airFUCK

I see this book all the time at the library and stores and shit. And justnoNever.

I think I've read this one but I'm not entirely certain?

I really need to find this book and finish this damn series even though it's been at least 8 years since I've read all the rest. Aka since book 6 was brand new.

I remember when I first found out there was a second one ahahaha fUCKCan't believe I didn't have this book marked down before, though....Maybe five stars is a bit much? I don't care.

I see this book at the library all the time so maybe I'll read it, I dunno.

I am really fucking intrigued by that summary.

I read the first chapter while at the library the other day and I actually kind of liked it???????? So I dunno. I take comfort in the fact that the series in its entirety isn't written by Dashner, at least. (It's kind of weird because it's almost unsettling/worrying that the whole thing isn't written by him. Because as much as I loathe his writing style I've actually kinda become attached to it?? Is this the definition of Stockholm Syndrome or what, what is wrong with me swear to God.)

First of all: I want to rate this higher than [b:the Maze Runner|6186357|The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, #1)|James Dashner|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1375596592s/6186357.jpg|6366642] because I enjoyed it hella more than I enjoyed Runner, but I rated Runner three stars and this doesn't deserve four stars so...Whatever. Three point five? But what if I like [b:The Death Cure|7864437|The Death Cure (Maze Runner, #3)|James Dashner|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1303997647s/7864437.jpg|11022464] even better? Maybe I'll change Runner's rating to two stars or 2.5, who knows, who cares.Okay. Now./throws hands in airThe things that bothered me the most. 1. No way in hell it should've taken them how long it took them to walk/run thirty miles.2. The lack of discussion about Alby's death. Yeah, sure - Thomas was closer to Chuck. That doesn't excuse it.3. Brenda. I mean, I don't know. I liked her. She's pretty great. But it's just so rare for the second person the protagonist meets to be the one they ended up with, and c'mon - no way Thomas is going to end up with Teresa, but ...I guess I should give the book props for that, since it's so unusual, but I find I can't.4. Teresa! Not what she did - I mean, she was The BETRAYER for Christsakes, of course there was gonna be a little betraying involved, but, I mean. She's a strong, independent woman. She's working for WICKED, so people might argue that she's "evil" or something or not thinking for herself, but she is. She did what she had to do to keep Thomas alive and I understand that for the books' plots, Thomas has to kind of hate her/actually feel betrayed (which was WICKED's point anyway), but she only has to do so much apologising, as she said.5. I MISS GALLY. And Chuck. And Alby.6. I am 100% sure Newt is going to die, because my favourite characters always die. (e.i.: Alby and Chuck.) Or Minho might. I was scared the entire time I was reading that it'd be in this book that they would die and I'd have to go the entirety of the next book moping without one or the other or perhaps both. But they lived! So hopefully that means I'll only have to go some of the next book without one or the other or both. Hurray for small favors.7. The writing style, as always. But either it wasn't as annoying in this one because Dashner just didn't write as annoyingly or because it just didn't bother me as much because coming into TMZ I was coming off some really, really, REALLY well-written novels (engaging ones at that) and into this one I was coming off books that were really well-written but didn't engage me to the same scale. I don't know? It's weird, though, that I enjoyed this one better but didn't enjoy it for the plot to the same extent I did with Runner. I mean, learning more about WICKED was just frustrating (aka: annoying and made me want to stop, put the book down, rub my temples, and curse Dashner's style), and not in the good way. 7a. The memories were written so - it was annoying. Everything's annoying. But it was just...how many times do you have to tell us that it's confusing? We got it. The first five times. Shut the shuck up - you're in a body that is you but isn't you at the same time. "Somehow" you knew what age you were. "Somehow" you knew what you were feeling. Give me a break. 7b. HOW MANY TIMES CAN ONE PERSON USE SOMEHOW IN A BOOK, JESUS CHRIST.In conclusion: The writing style. Is annoying. And the plot was annoying. And the characters were annoying (but I genuinely love all of them. Which is rare.), as was the sacrificing of their intelligence/wits/etc just to further the plot. But - I enjoyed it more than the first one....wait for it......SOMEHOW!!!!!!!!(shhh i'm not snarky you're snarky)