Thalia @ Pictures in the Words
I'm Thalia! I run a book blog called Pictures in the Words and I hope to be an editor for YA fiction. I'm a GoodReads refugee!
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Well, I decided that this book needed to end last night, so I cuddled up (and by that, I mean I lay spread-eagle on my bed with my fan blasting in my face in the 66% humidity) and got down to business. The book ended before I expected it to, so it felt kind of...incomplete. She reads her thing and the whole world is better?
Colby's story makes sense. But while her family is supposed to be unlikable, Colby is also incredibly selfish and unlikable, making it difficult to sympathize with her situation (even for me--and it's one I've somewhat faced, except without the dead cousin and brutal family problems). I mostly wanted to slap her throughout the book, even when I had to hold my breath because breathing hurt--this book is triggering on all sorts of levels, and just...I don't think I was ready for it. (Although not nearly as triggering as Crewel was, so I guess that's good.)
And I don't really like reading books with strong language and a bunch of f-words, so this really didn't mesh with what I wanted to be reading. I think that, while I'm confused about how I feel with the handling of the situation and characters, I'll settle on two stars because of the other things that I know I didn't like.
Weird read.
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