Things I’m Seeing Without You is about a girl named Tess. When we first see her, she is dropping out of her boarding school to go live with her estranged father. The boy she loved, Jonah, just killed himself, and Tess is (understandably) distraught. Her father has always pursued some outlandish career goal; the current one is funeral planning. Tess decides to help him, and they plan a great memorial for a beloved racehorse. They decide to become partners and form a new, closer bond. […]
“Your now is not your forever.”
First, this review is sort of temporary so I can get my thoughts out before they fade away. I’ll probably be re-reading soon. I want to have a better chance to digest it, since the first time I read it over Thanksgiving weekend, I had my mom and sister and their HGTV/Hallmark Christmas movie obsession as a constant in the background and it was very distracting. I always have these grand plans of reading and writing over Thanksgiving weekend, and it NEVER happens because my […]
I feel like this series maybe is holding me hostage and I have Stockholm Syndrome for it.
Firstly, this book is bonkers. Secondly, Sarah J. Maas is not the author for me, a 32 year old person. The prose is out of control overwritten to impress and be MEANINGFUL. The characters pair up like lobsters and it is overwhelmingly heterosexual, which just makes me roll my eyes. Really, all these characters you just so happened to create just happen to find their soulmate or whatever and get together by the end? Really? This is the same thing that annoyed me out of […]
“Broken people don’t hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten…”
I was a big fan of Francesca Zappia’s Made You Up, and was excited for her follow up, Eliza and Her Monsters. The book did not disappoint. It’s about Eliza, who is a loner misfit at school but secretly the mastermind behind Monstrous Sea, a phenomenally popular web comic. The trouble starts when she befriends the new boy at school, Wallace. He’s a very active member of her fandom. The closer that they get, the worse it will be when he finds out who she […]