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Sorcery of Thorns (Sorcery of Thorns, #1)
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bookshelves: ya, fantasy, project-clear-ur-sh-t, unpopular-opinion, eh, 2-stars, reviewed
May 02, 2020
bookshelves: ya, fantasy, project-clear-ur-sh-t, unpopular-opinion, eh, 2-stars, reviewed
Life is full of casual horrors.
For example, I just had to watchthe greatest football team in NFL history my favorite team get absolutely trounced by a group of people who somehow look like cardboard cutouts of themselves. And that was entertainment.
Yesterday, my favorite menu item at the only fast casual dining experience I tolerate was discontinued, presumably to teach me, specifically, about the futility of the universe and the fleeting nature of happiness.
And we all have to do something called "growing up."
In spite of being twenty-(redacted), I try to avoid being aware of the fact that I am technically an adult. While I almost exclusively read adult fiction, I attempt to casually return to YA from time to time.
And lately, that has worked (checks notes) 0 percent of the time.
I think I just find YA fantasy...corny now.
In this case: The romance? Corny. The plot? Corny. The evil bad guy speeches? Corniest of all.
I liked the beginning of this, but the storyline felt like a series of 8-10 major plot points that each had approximately. 50 pages dedicated to them and it was...bizarre. This could have been 8 small stories, or been divided into chunks, shuffled, and republished, or had the middle 100 pages removed, and I would not have noticed the difference.
At the start, I was...well, not quite On Board for the romance, but at least somewhat appreciative of the fun dialogue between them.
But the banter fell off.
It all fell off.
The climax of this is just absurd. Books flapping their covers aggressively to kill demons and then doing the same to fix tears in the earth's fabric? OK. A 5'2 demon becoming a bigger demon who talks like a Marvel movie villain? OK.
I can't even say "it's not you, it's me." Because I don't even know anymore.
Bottom line: Every day I come closer to giving up.
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pre-review
yeah okay sure fine whatever.
review to come / probably 2 stars
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currently-reading updates
apparently this book, which i've had on my owned tbr for years, is similar to the infernal devices...thanks i hate it
clear ur sh*t book 51
quest 23: opulent cover
For example, I just had to watch
Yesterday, my favorite menu item at the only fast casual dining experience I tolerate was discontinued, presumably to teach me, specifically, about the futility of the universe and the fleeting nature of happiness.
And we all have to do something called "growing up."
In spite of being twenty-(redacted), I try to avoid being aware of the fact that I am technically an adult. While I almost exclusively read adult fiction, I attempt to casually return to YA from time to time.
And lately, that has worked (checks notes) 0 percent of the time.
I think I just find YA fantasy...corny now.
In this case: The romance? Corny. The plot? Corny. The evil bad guy speeches? Corniest of all.
I liked the beginning of this, but the storyline felt like a series of 8-10 major plot points that each had approximately. 50 pages dedicated to them and it was...bizarre. This could have been 8 small stories, or been divided into chunks, shuffled, and republished, or had the middle 100 pages removed, and I would not have noticed the difference.
At the start, I was...well, not quite On Board for the romance, but at least somewhat appreciative of the fun dialogue between them.
But the banter fell off.
It all fell off.
The climax of this is just absurd. Books flapping their covers aggressively to kill demons and then doing the same to fix tears in the earth's fabric? OK. A 5'2 demon becoming a bigger demon who talks like a Marvel movie villain? OK.
I can't even say "it's not you, it's me." Because I don't even know anymore.
Bottom line: Every day I come closer to giving up.
--------------
pre-review
yeah okay sure fine whatever.
review to come / probably 2 stars
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currently-reading updates
apparently this book, which i've had on my owned tbr for years, is similar to the infernal devices...thanks i hate it
clear ur sh*t book 51
quest 23: opulent cover
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Eeps! I'd heard so much good about this too.
emma your reviews are the best, I love them and hate them at same time lol
on the one hand i kinda want you to spare yourself but on the other hand i want you to read it and leave a rant filled review that i can wholeheartedly agree with you on :)
If that's the case, I'm not interested.
Maddy wrote: "Emma no"maddy yes
Rachelle wrote: "Eeps! I'd heard so much good about this too."same :(
queltelesx wrote: "emma your reviews are the best, I love them and hate them at same time lol"this made me laugh out loud
rose wrote: "on the one hand i kinda want you to spare yourself but on the other hand i want you to read it and leave a rant filled review that i can wholeheartedly agree with you on :)"anything for you rose
ivy wrote: "Another DNF for me 🤣"omg ivy i need a dnf list from you
Audrey wrote: "If that's the case, I'm not interested."this exactly
🤣🤣🤣 my thoughts exactly; wish I'd known that going in! seemed like everyone else loved this but now it makes so much more sense why I did not...
emma wrote: "Rachelle wrote: "Eeps! I'd heard so much good about this too."same :("
Well every book isn't for everyone. That would be boring. On to the next!
😂 I have a dnf shelf in my profile
elise wrote: "🤣🤣🤣 my thoughts exactly; wish I'd known that going in! seemed like everyone else loved this but now it makes so much more sense why I did not..."i am Afraid
Rachel wrote: "emma wrote: "Rachelle wrote: "Eeps! I'd heard so much good about this too."same :("
Well every book isn't for everyone. That would be boring. On to the next!"
unfortunately i haven't even read this one yet!!
ivy wrote: "😂 I have a dnf shelf in my profile"i'm on it
emma wrote: "Rachel wrote: "emma wrote: "Rachelle wrote: "Eeps! I'd heard so much good about this too."same :("
Well every book isn't for everyone. That would be boring. On to the next!"
unfortunately i hav..."
Ohh you still will! Sorry I took from that that you won't. But yay!! Im crossing my fingers that this turns out better than you thought.🤞🏼
Please read it already because I just bought it and need to know if there are any annoying cliches and stuff and you always mention stuff like that in your reviews…I feel like you’ll hate it though
Finally... This is on my owned TBR and I don't want to start it until I know what you think. I can always trust you
I just read and loved this book. Maybe it's been too long since I read Infernal Devices to see the similarities, but I really didn't see many?? I really enjoyed the world this book set up.
Yeah, this one wasn’t my fave either. Entirely middling. Unhauled pretty smartly, tbh.
Well at least it wasn't 1 star
Rachel wrote: "emma wrote: "Rachel wrote: "emma wrote: "Rachelle wrote: "Eeps! I'd heard so much good about this too."same :("
Well every book isn't for everyone. That would be boring. On to the next!"
unfort..."
it was okay! which probably is better than i thought
Clare 🌜Reads Baaaad Witches🌛 wrote: "Hmmmm. I’m confused over the spitting image of Feyre on the cover."double jeopardy
� ʙᴇᴄᴄᴀ wrote: "I just read and loved this book. Maybe it's been too long since I read Infernal Devices to see the similarities, but I really didn't see many?? I really enjoyed the world this book set up."i thought the world was more fun! i just stopped having fun the longer this went on
Amy wrote: "Yeah, this one wasn’t my fave either. Entirely middling. Unhauled pretty smartly, tbh."middling is a good word for it
Lem◍nade wrote: "Well at least it wasn't 1 star"optimism
emma wrote: "Lem◍nade wrote: "Well at least it wasn't 1 star"optimism"
Compared to other YA fantasy books you read, 2.5 is pretty good
Sometimes I think I can trust you cos we have the same tastes and then you go and do things like this 🤣🤣
Ugh this book was so disappointingly bad. I gave it one* and that felt generous .
I gave it a 3 I think but for a completely different reason. I'm still young enough for YA :)Either way, this book wasn't very good.
I agree with you, but somehow I just really loved everything about this book 😂🙈
Sangeetha wrote: "Sometimes I think I can trust you cos we have the same tastes and then you go and do things like this 🤣🤣"i'm not to be trusted
Christina wrote: "Ugh this book was so disappointingly bad. I gave it one* and that felt generous ."i can't even tell what's me and what's the book anymore
Lem◍nade wrote: "I gave it a 3 I think but for a completely different reason. I'm still young enough for YA :)Either way, this book wasn't very good."
i mean i have more than one reason listed above
Prometeya wrote: "I agree with you, but somehow I just really loved everything about this book 😂🙈"hahaha love that!!
I can't with YA fiction anymore either, been purging my shelves
I agree. 2 stars from me, too. I started it on March 6th and finished tonight. DNFed it at one point after it put me in a big reading slump. Idk why I picked it up again. I think mostly because I finished the reading challenge a month ago and don't want to start anything new that I have already lined up for next year 😅
I can never take smaller evil beings transforming into bigger evil beings because that only works power rangers
