Wow. I honestly don’t have sufficient words to convey my love for this astounding b5++ stars � Contemporary Fiction/Women’s Fiction/Historical Fiction
Wow. I honestly don’t have sufficient words to convey my love for this astounding book, and I wish there was a way to rate it higher than 5 stars. It’s not only one of my favorite reads of this year, but it’s also one of my favorite books, ever. I ugly cried so hard reading the last chapter that I couldn’t even see the screen and had to stop several times to collect myself. So many feels. And the epilogue is truly soul-stirring.
Winter Garden is more than just a book. It’s an evocative, powerful intergenerational story that takes you on an unforgettable emotional journey. Although this is women’s fiction, for romance readers like me, there are actually multiple love stories in this book, and the one at the heart of the story is epically beautiful and heartrending.
I was intrigued from the very start of the book, but I think some readers might find it slow in the beginning and also feel unsure of the likeability of the characters. But the story reveals itself layer by layer brilliantly, and the evolution of Meredith, Nina, and Anya is part of what makes it such a wonderful read. Hannah captures the complicated dynamics of relationships (mothers and daughters, sisters, husband and wife, and lovers) with authenticity and poignancy. I especially found the depiction of Meredith’s marital struggles after 20 years together relatable and realistic. Women so often put their children, partners, family, home, and work above themselves, and marital relationships can be easily neglected from just the monotony of everyday life.
Winter Garden is an insightful and intimate portrayal of the enduring strength of women, a spellbinding family saga, and an epic love story that is compelling from start to finish. It’s a story of family, country, tragedy, sacrifice, love and loss, human suffering, survival, grief, forgiveness, and hope. It’s moving, lyrically written, expertly paced, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting.
I’ve always been fascinated by Russian language, culture, folklore, food, and history, and I want to learn more after reading this book. I hope I get to see its beauty someday, including the Belye Nochi, White Nights, of St. Petersburg, formerly Leningrad, that means so much to Anya in the story. I love that Hannah included some Russian recipes at the end of the book because food, both the overabundance and lack of it, is an integral part of the story as well.
I’ve read about the Soviet Union during WWII, and I knew about the Siege of Leningrad in a generic, factual way. But Hannah provides candid insight into the lives of those, mostly women, children, and elderly, in Leningrad during the siege who were left to struggle to survive the unforgiving, brutally cold winters without heat or food while being constantly bombed by the Germans. The 900-Day Siege resulted in the deaths of roughly one million of the city’s civilians, including more than 700,000 that froze or starved to death. Hannah researched firsthand accounts of survivors as inspiration to create a personalized story to strongly affect the reader by allowing them to experience it.
Winter Garden is a truly remarkable, deeply affecting, and haunting read that will stay with me forever. It gave me all the feels and all the tears but also left me inspired. Winter Garden joins Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale as one of my top favorite reads of the year and most favorite books of all-time. 5++ and all the stars!
“And maybe that was how it was supposed to be, how life unfolded when you lived it long enough. Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps, was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly because you never knew when a strong heart could just give out.�
“I’d be proud to have your strength. What you’ve been through—and we don’t know the worst of it, I think—it would have killed any ordinary woman. Only someone extraordinary could have survived. So, yeah, I do want to end up like you.�
“If there was one thing she’d learned in all of this, it was that life—and love—can be gone any second. When you had it, you needed to hang on with all your strength and savor every second.�
“We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we...bear what we must for our children.�
(view spoiler)[The engraving from Sasha to Vera on the tombstone made me bawl my eyes out. “Remember our lime tree in the Summer Garden. I will meet you there, my love.�(hide spoiler)]
From the author’s In Her Own Words section at the back of the book: “It is Anya who haunts me. She is a fictional character, obviously, but she is drawn from research. The women who survived the Siege of Leningrad were lionesses, warriors. It’s deeply inspiring to me. And even though it happened a long time ago, I find the story of their courage relevant in today’s world.�
From the Behind the Novel section at the back of the book: “I wanted to give you all this story of survival and loss, horror and heartache in a way that would allow you to experience it with some measure of emotion. I am not a historian, nor a nonfiction writer. My hope is that you leave this novel informed, but not merely with the facts and figures; rather; I want you to be able to actually imagine it, to ask yourself how you would have fared in such terrible times.�...more
Wow! The Huntress is one of the best books I’ve read this year. My other favorite book of 5++ stars � WWII Historical Fiction/Mystery/Suspense/Romance
Wow! The Huntress is one of the best books I’ve read this year. My other favorite book of the year is The Diamond Eye, also by Kate Quinn. They’ve both earned high honors on my all-time best top favorite reads lists.
History books and history lessons tend to leave out the contributions of women in WWII. Quinn sheds light on elements of history that haven’t received the attention they deserve. She reminds us that women played integral roles in WWII as pilots, snipers, spies, and soldiers and that there were also female Nazi war criminals.
The Huntress is an empowering, brilliantly written, superbly detailed, stirringly paced, and riveting page-turner with captivating characters. It combines fact and fiction to tell the story of the search for a Nazi murderess on the run. I alternated between the audiobook version narrated fabulously by Saskia Maarlevelde and reading the e-book version.
The Huntress involves three interchanging points of view/timelines: Nina Markova, a woman from remote Siberia who becomes a Soviet bomber pilot with the all-female Night Witches regiment, Ian Graham, a journalist and war correspondent turned Nazi hunter with his partner, Tony Rodomovsky, who are searching for a cold-blood Nazi killer known as die Jagerin, The Huntress, and Jordan McBride, a young photographer whose stepmother may have secrets and not be what she seems. Their stories converge and meticulously come together in a thrilling, explosive climax.
The characters are all fascinating and multifaceted, but Nina Markova definitely stole the book for me. She is a wonderfully complex, intriguing, strong, brave, tough, hard, resilient, difficult, proud, stubborn, brutal, loyal, prickly, funny, loving, and kick-ass heroine and a survivor in every possible way. Nina’s time as navigator and pilot in the Night Witches are some of the best moments of the book. The love between Nina and (view spoiler)[Yelena, her sestra and fellow pilot, (hide spoiler)] was beautiful, genuine, moving, and heartbreaking. There are two other romances in the book as well, and they both weave nicely into the story without distracting from the overall seriousness of the hunt.
Ian, Tony, and Nina (like real life Nazi hunters) worked diligently and determinedly to shine the light of justice on the war criminals hiding in the dark of indifference after WWII when most people just wanted to forget and move on like everything was normal again.
The Huntress is a poignant, inspiring, and exciting story that captivated me from the start and kept me eagerly reading until the suspenseful conclusion. And in the end, who was the true Huntress?
Don’t miss reading the "About the Book" section at the end where the author explains what is fact and fiction in the story and provides more fascinating historical details.
He yelped then, feeling the keen edge of a stropped Siberian razor pressing against the inside of his thigh. “My pilot,� Nina said sweetly, “doesn’t care for your fucking language, you bonehead Leningrad mule. Keep your mouth clean around her, or I will slice off your balls and cram them up your fucking nose.� “Women in the air,� he breathed. “World’s gone crazy, giving planes to you bitches.� “Bitches like my pilot fly better than you will ever fly in your whole goddamned life.� Nina gave another sweet smile. “So take her up there for a loop and keep your fucking language nice, and I won’t jam a propeller up your shit-factory and crank until your asshole flaps like your mouth.� �> See why I love Nina so much?
The dead lie beyond any struggle, so we living must struggle for them. We must remember, because there are other wheels that turn besides the wheel of justice. Time is a wheel, vast and indifferent, and when time rolls on and men forget, we face the risk of circling back. We slouch yawning to a new horizon and find ourselves gazing at old hatreds seeded and watered by forgetfulness and flowering into new wars. New massacres. New monsters like die Jagerin. Let this wheel stop. Let us not forget this time. Let us remember....more
Wow! What a terrific surprise this was! I often find books that I love the hardest to review. I hav5++ stars � WWII Historical Fiction/Mystery/Romance
Wow! What a terrific surprise this was! I often find books that I love the hardest to review. I have so much that I want to say about it, but I think The Diamond Eye is one of those books that’s even better because of how unexpected it is.
The Diamond Eye is based on the remarkable true life story of Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko. She was a bookish history student and librarian, a single mother turned soldier in order to defend her homeland who longed to be a historian, and a fierce, deadly sniper with over 300 kills who became a close friend to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The author used Mila’s actual memoir as her inspiration and “concrete original source� with some artistic license to fill in the “gaps and silences.�
The Diamond Eye is historical fiction at its best and a biography of sorts, but it’s so much more than that. It’s a wartime story with political intrigue, mystery/suspense, and romance. Mila is a fascinating, complex heroine with a fierce, persistent, fighting spirit who never backs down. Her transformation from a quiet, bookish, abused single mother to a courageous, determined, strong-willed soldier who endures doubts and sexism from her fellow soldiers and superiors to be become a fierce, revered sniper feared by Germans known as Lady Death is truly amazing. I loved her.
The alternating timeline of Mila’s past and present was handled really well. The mystery woven into Mila’s goodwill tour visit to America was intriguing and suspenseful, and I enjoyed the present scenes with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mila. But I preferred the past sections because I liked reading about Mila’s wartime experiences, interactions, and relationships. There are so many interesting (real) characters that I loved: her medical orderly friend, Lena, her platoon mates, Fyodor and Vartanov, her superior officer, Lyonya, and of course, her sniper partner and shadow, Kostia.
I’m a romance lover/reader at heart, so my favorite part of The Diamond Eye is the romantic elements. There are actually two love stories in this book, and they’re both beautiful and moving. And trust me that it’s not a love triangle. Lyonya and Kostia are both amazing, swoonworthy heroes, and I loved them as much as Mila.
I highly recommend this book to fans of extraordinary women, WWII history, historical fiction, historical mystery/suspense, and historical romance. Big unforgettable 5 stars!
“I had a belly full of vodka, a heart full of hatred, and a soul full of grief—but my hand was steady as a rock.�
“We are glad to visit your beautiful country. It is prosperous—you all live far from the struggle. Nobody destroys your towns, cities, fields. Nobody kills your citizens, your sisters and mothers, your fathers and brothers. I come from a place where bombs pound villages into ash, where Russian blood oils the treads of German tanks, where innocent civilians die every day. An accurate bullet fired by a sniper like me, Mrs. Roosevelt, is no more than a response to an enemy.�
I’ve seen some comments from readers on GR and Amazon saying they were concerned about the timing or that they had a hard time with the book given Russia’s current invasion of Ukraine. But the USSR, Soviet Union, during WWII is not the same as Russia today. They fought against Hitler and fascism and fended off the German invasion long before Americans joined the fight, and the Red Army provided the largest land force in the Allied victory of WWII. The Soviet Union also suffered the highest casualties of the war with around 20-27 million deaths.
From the Author’s Note of The Diamond Eye:
“It’s sometimes said that World War II was won with British Intelligence, American steel, and Soviet blood. This sweeping generalization bears a kernel of truth. Since the USSR became America’s enemy in the Cold War so soon after WWII’s end, it’s easy to forget that without them, the war against the Axis powers might have been lost. Of all Hitler’s mistakes, his colossal Napoleonic error in taking on the USSR was perhaps the most pivotal: without the eastern front soaking up so much of Germany’s manpower, the Allies might never have prevailed. The cost of that victory was millions of Red Army dead as Soviet blood gave American steel and British Intelligence time to turn the tide. The Diamond Eye is seen through the lens of Soviet blood—one woman’s fight to stanch its flow, first with her rifle and then with her voice as she crossed an ocean to bring American steel home to help her countrymen.�
My personal opinion/note:
It’s tragic to me that governments (including the U.S.) haven’t learned from history and keep repeating the same mistakes of war resulting in the suffering of innocent people. So much money is spent on the military-industrial complex that could be used for education, healthcare, protecting and improving the environment, and helping the poor, homeless, children, elderly, and veterans. Sadly, companies who produce oil, gas, weapons, bombs, tanks, attack drones, and fighter planes and their politicians want wars because they get richer....more
Wow! Another incredible, complex, high-octane Orphan X thriller! His work as the Nowhere Man was a total na5 stars - Vigilante Justice/Action Thriller
Wow! Another incredible, complex, high-octane Orphan X thriller! His work as the Nowhere Man was a total nailbiter! I had no idea how or if he was going to pull everything off and make it out alive! This series is just fantastic! Big 5 stars!
This isn't the last book in the series, and part of me is glad there's more to come. But I also think the end of this book provides closure for Evan's life as Orphan X and the Nowhere Man. (view spoiler)[He receives an informal presidential pardon, so the government will finally stop searching for him. He also completes his final mission as the Nowhere Man, so he can retire and attempt some semblance of a normal life, ideally with Mia and Peter. (hide spoiler)] I think with just another chapter or two and/or an epilogue, this book could've made for a great ending to the series....more
Wow! This series is fantastic! I loved the previous book, Hellbent, so much that I was worrie5 stars - Vigilante Justice/Assassination/Action Thriller
Wow! This series is fantastic! I loved the previous book, Hellbent, so much that I was worried this wouldn't be as good, but it definitely delivered on the action and emotional depth.
This had me on the edge of my seat wondering how the hell Evan/X was going to pull everything off. And I really loved his work as the Nowhere Man in this one. The scenes with the boy he helped were so moving, and his vengeance was delivered brilliantly.
(view spoiler)[My heart breaks for Evan at the longing he feels for a normal life with Mia and Peter. I hope he can find happiness and peace and have a life with them at some point. (hide spoiler)]...more
Wow! Now that's how you write an intelligent action thriller with emotional depth. I really liked the firs5 stars - Vigilante Justice/Action Thriller
Wow! Now that's how you write an intelligent action thriller with emotional depth. I really liked the first book, Orphan X, and the second book, The Nowhere Man, was good but it dragged at times for me. This is intense with nonstop action, but it's also emotional and moving. The relationship between Evan and his teenage ward, Joey, is beautifully done. I cried two or three times while reading this book. I'm looking forward to more of this series. Big 5 stars!
“Remember what Confucius say: 'Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.'� “Oh,� Evan said, “I'm gonna dig a lot more than that.�...more
This is my favorite book of one of my all-time favorite series. But it's sReread/listened to audiobook 1/19/23:
5++ stars - Historical Mystery/Thriller
This is my favorite book of one of my all-time favorite series. But it's so devastating and heartbreaking. I have an almost 10-year-old son, and if anyone did to him what was done to the children in this book, I would have razed London's aristocracy to the ground.
Original rating/review Dec'2020:
5+ stars - Historical Mystery/Thriller
I have so many thoughts about this exceptional book, and I know I won’t be able to do it justice. It’s an incredibly well-written, fantastic mystery and another testament to Sebastian’s steadfast determination for seeking justice. The book description does a good job, so I won’t go into detail about the plot. The subject matter and murders in this are probably the darkest and most brutal, disturbing, and heartbreaking in the series. The story of victimized children was distressing and gut-wrenching, but this is my favorite St. Cyr book to date.
This series does a consistently brilliant job presenting the hypocrisy, elitism, and brutality of Regency England and detailing the various unjust ways the monarchy and wealthy, titled, aristocratic upper class systematically dehumanize the lower classes and poor members of society. Devlin refuses to turn a blind eye to the brutality and demands justice for those the wealthy and powerful abuse and ignore and who cannot fight for themselves.
“How do you convince a boy born to a deadly combination of poverty and the endless scorn of those labeled his betters that his real worth is infinitely above that of the savage, twisted spawn of kings? How do you explain a world that gifts evil men with privilege and wealth and looks the other way while they torment and abuse the weakest members of society?�
I’ve been binge-listening to this excellent series for the past month (12 books in 30 days) and Davina Porter’s audiobook narration is absolutely amazing! She portrays each character with their own distinctive voice, accent, tone, and personality and truly brings the series to life. They are all highly enjoyable reads! Big 5 stars for this one!
Here are a few random thoughts about the book. (I’d love to discuss these points with someone who has read the book!)
**Spoiler Warning** (view spoiler)[ -I was upset that vile Lord Ashworth got away with his evil, but I see that he gets murdered in Who Slays the Wicked.
-I didn’t like that Devlin didn’t tell Hero about Lord Jarvis’s death threats against him or that Jarvis knew about and protected the sadistic killers. I hope Devlin tells Hero the truth at some point and that Hero confronts Jarvis about it.
-I’m very suspicious of cousin Victoria. I think she killed Hero’s mother. My guess is that she poisoned her. And I wouldn’t be surprised if Jarvis was in on it. I hope the author addresses this in a future book. (hide spoiler)]...more
I just discovered Karin Slaughter this year, and I’ve loved reading her Will Trent series. The Last Widow is my favorite b5+ stars � Suspense/Thriller
I just discovered Karin Slaughter this year, and I’ve loved reading her Will Trent series. The Last Widow is my favorite book by her so far. It’s an intense, gripping, complex, and absolutely brilliant thriller, but it’s also fucking terrifying. The disturbing events and doomsday scenario that unfold in this story are like an all too real worst nightmare.
This book definitely speaks to the current ugly state of the American political and social climate and the alarming rise of white nationalism. Knowing various far-right extremist, white supremacist, religious zealot militia groups like the one depicted in this book exist in frightening numbers and are armed to the teeth with their hatred, racism, misogyny, and AR-15s, it all feels startlingly timely, horrifyingly realistic, and chillingly plausible.
Will and Sara both go through utter hell in this book. (view spoiler)[The scene at the compound when Will finally finds Sara and they hold hands through the crack under her locked cabin door and both try to be strong and not break down and comfort and console each other with silly jokes and banter knowing they have to separate again just gutted me. Thankfully, Will and Sara are back together at the end of the book and are a stronger, more solidified couple and seem to be headed toward moving in together and marriage?! (hide spoiler)] I’m not sure what else Karin Slaughter has planned for Will and Sara or if they’ll really have and/or keep a well-deserved happy ending, but I sure fucking hope so! I can’t wait for the next Will Trent book to find out! Big 5 stars!...more
I have several favorite books in this phenomenal series, and both of these make th5 stars � Futuristic/Crime/Romantic Suspense/Thriller/Mystery/Sci-Fi
I have several favorite books in this phenomenal series, and both of these make that list!...more
Brotherhood in Death is one of the best of the series, but it’s not an easy read.
This ti5 stars � Futuristic/Romantic Suspense/Crime/Thriller/Mystery
Brotherhood in Death is one of the best of the series, but it’s not an easy read.
This time the murder case was particularly brutal and a difficult one for Eve that made her relive her traumatic past. Knowing the horror Eve endured and survived as a child made this even more disturbing and emotional. But Roarke, Peabody, and Mr. Mira were there to support her, lend their strength, and to help her stand tough and strong, as always. (view spoiler)[The scene with Mr. Mira gently comforting Eve when she broke down while telling him about her abusive past was so touching, tender, and heartbreaking. (hide spoiler)]
I was really torn with the murder case in this one. The male murder “victims� made me revolted and enraged, and I didn’t feel any sympathy whatsoever for them. (view spoiler)[A brotherhood of powerful, wealthy, privileged white men with advantaged Ivy League Yale backgrounds abusing their power and wealth to prey on and rape women together for 49 years. I don’t condone violence or vigilante justice, but I felt compassion and understanding for the rape victims/survivors who got revenge on their vile rapists. And I wanted the women to get justice and find peace. (hide spoiler)] I thought J.D. Robb handled it really well.
Also, the timing and relevancy of reading this book really struck me. With so many men of various public stations abusing their positions of power, fame, and wealth by engaging in sexual misconduct, harassment, abuse, and/or assault, it’s glaringly obvious that there’s still a huge chasm of inequality in how girls and women are treated in society. And far too often justice is not just or served, especially when it comes to powerful, wealthy white men in power. Female victims are far too often ignored, shamed, and blamed, and have their lives ruined while their abusers/rapists go unpunished....more
This is one of my all-time favorite Nora Roberts series/trilogies. It's like Nora decided to writeReread July'2022
5+ stars - Horror/Paranormal Romance
This is one of my all-time favorite Nora Roberts series/trilogies. It's like Nora decided to write a creepy Stephen King horror story with romance, and it works.
Original rating/review
5 stars - Horror/Paranormal Romance
I loved this trilogy! It completely consumed me for five days! It was fantastically dark, eerie, creepy, and scary and had me turning on lights and jumping at every little noise in my house! I loved all three couples, and the romance between Gage and Cybil in The Pagan Stone was my favorite of the series....more
Wow. There’s no way I can do this book justice with a review, and a rating of 5 stars is completely inadequate. The5++ stars � WWII Historical Fiction
Wow. There’s no way I can do this book justice with a review, and a rating of 5 stars is completely inadequate. The Nightingale is such an important, powerful, heartbreaking, and haunting read. It’s a respectful, beautifully written, and deeply evocative portrait of Nazi-occupied France in WWII. I’ll never forget this impactful, tender, compelling, gutwrenching story of love and war, fear and courage, kindness and brutality, sacrifice and struggle, suffering and survival or the brave sisters/survivors/heroes, Vianne and Isabelle.
The Nightingale emotively conveys the heart of what makes us human, the power of the human spirit, and the enduring strength and contribution of women that is ignored in our history books and history lessons. For romance readers, like me, there is love in this book, and it’s captivating, essential, and heartbreaking. The best thing I can say about The Nightingale is: read it!, even if it’s not your normal genre. This is definitely the hardest I’ve cried reading a book, but it’s worth it. We need stories like this to remind us so we never forget or allow atrocities like this to happen again.
“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.�
“Men tell stories. Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.�
“But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.�
“Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.�
“Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.�
How does something so incomprehensible, monstrous, and evil as the Holocaust happen? This book shows how. It didn’t happen overnight. There was a gradual progression and people either ignored, stayed silent about, or went along with many of the Nazi’s initial changes and actions (such as stealing homes for German use, closing businesses, forcing rations on non-Germans, taking businesses and possessions away from Jews, firing or arresting Jews, communists, homosexuals, and people considered too politically outspoken, naming Jews and communists and putting them on lists, making Jews wear yellow stars, etc.). As it got progressively worse and more violent and the reality and horror of what was happening with the separating of families, shootings, deportations, trains, and camps was revealed, it was too late. Good people doing nothing and citizens, government leaders, and soldiers following unconscionable orders and committing inhumane acts in the name of nationalism and war is how something as inconceivable and evil as the Holocaust happened.
I’ve seen some readers upset over what happened to Beck’s character (view spoiler)[because he was a “nice guy� and just a soldier following orders. I’m going to call bullshit on that. He stood on a platform and held a whip in his hand while women and children were being whipped, beaten, shot, and herded into cattle cars. It doesn’t matter that he later told Vianne that it sickened him. He wore the Nazi uniform, held the whip, went along with the brutality and inhumaneness and did nothing to stop it. (hide spoiler)] The argument of there were many “good� Germans and Nazis “just following orders� is a pathetic, shameful excuse of the atrocities committed during WWII and the Holocaust.
It took me hours to read the last few chapters because I was sobbing so hard and had to stop several times to blow my nose and collect myself, and then I’d read another passage and the crying would start again.
(view spoiler)[When Vianne had to give Daniel up, I almost couldn’t finish it. And Isabelle and Gaetan’s reunion was so moving and emotional.
“Don’t talk about yourself in the past tense.� “But I am past tense. The girl I was…� “She’s not gone, Isabelle. She’s sick and she’s been treated badly, but she can’t be gone. She had the heart of a lion.�
“When he drew back, he stared down at her and the love in his eyes burned away everything bad; it was just them again, Gaetan and Isabelle, somehow falling in love in a world at war.�
“She was crying for all of it at last—for the pain and loss and fear and anger, for the war and what it had done to her and to all of them, for the knowledge of evil she could never shake, for the horror of where she’d been and what she’d done to survive.�
“You know what I learned in the camps?� “They couldn’t touch my heart. They couldn’t change who I was inside. My body...they broke that in the first days, but not my heart, V.�(hide spoiler)]
And I bawled the entire last chapter. I can think about this book and start crying again. That’s how powerful and unforgettable it is. 5++ and all the stars!...more
This quote from Augustus Waters in The Fault in Our Stars perfectly expresses my feelings abo5++ Infinite Stars � Contemporary/YA Fiction/Romance
This quote from Augustus Waters in The Fault in Our Stars perfectly expresses my feelings about this book.
“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.�
I’m just incapable of coherently and intelligently expressing my myriad, jumbled mix of thoughts and emotions about this astoundingly beautiful, resonant, insightful, heartbreaking, funny, existential, quirky, charming, poignant, and unforgettable love story.
The Fault in Our Stars eloquently emphasizes the inherent and indomitable privilege and gift in simply loving someone. It’s a book that left me emotionally gutted, inspired and uplifted, and reverently awed over the transformative power of the written word. Hazel and Gus will stay with me, forever....more
A++wesome! An amazing, intense, gripping, emotional, and gratifying conclusion to a phenomenal series! I love Daem5+ stars � Paranormal/Sci-Fi Romance
A++wesome! An amazing, intense, gripping, emotional, and gratifying conclusion to a phenomenal series! I love Daemon and Katy, and they are stronger and better than ever! I’m really going to miss them. *Sigh, sniff*
I really hope Ms. Armentrout revisits the Lux/Arum world in the future because I would love to see more of Daemon and Kat, Dawson and Beth, Hunter and Serena, Dee and Archer, Luc, and Hunter’s brothers. And even though this was a stellar, satisfying conclusion, there are still some things that felt somewhat open/unresolved. (view spoiler)[What really happened to Luc’s sick friend, Nadia? What happened to the kid Origins from Daedalus that Luc stowed away? Will Lothos and the Arum that helped defeat the invading Luxen play nicely or cause conflict for the remaining Luxen and humans? Will Hunter’s brothers ever get books of their own? (hide spoiler)]...more
This is definitely the best book of the series. I absolutely looooooved Dae5+ stars � Paranormal/Sci-Fi Romance
Holy alien babies!!!! A++mazeballs!!!!
This is definitely the best book of the series. I absolutely looooooved Daemon in this and getting his POV made the story more powerful. It has an awesome mix of emotionally intense drama, kick-ass action, horror, humor, suspense, and swoon-worthy romance. But damn...it’s also got another killer cliffhanger.
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