What did you read this year?
Loretta (Quixotic Reads)’s
average rating for
2024
4.0
really liked it
4.0
DNF at 40%. I tried y’all, I really did. But I am very obviously not the target demographic of this book. Teen me would have gone bananas over this, but adult me just does not care about any of these characters? I can hang with YA books most of the time, but I feel like I know the entire trajectory of this duology. I’m just saving myself some time.
After reading Jack the Ripper and wanting to rip my hair out, I was skeptical about this series. But the major hype and promising summary had my curiosity winning out. And while I don’t completely dislike these books, I’m definitely not seeing what everyone else is.
The pacing is just all over the damn place. I spent most of the first book bored, mentally urging Emilia to just get on with it already. But the twists in this one threw me so far off ...more
The pacing is just all over the damn place. I spent most of the first book bored, mentally urging Emilia to just get on with it already. But the twists in this one threw me so far off ...more