this book was INFURIATING to me. my humble guess is that it is meant to convey some type of wisdom about queer labels and how we define them, b⭐️ 2 ⭐️
this book was INFURIATING to me. my humble guess is that it is meant to convey some type of wisdom about queer labels and how we define them, but never in my life have I read a book that is so blatantly inconsistent in its own message. it is ripe with stereotypes while simultaneously trying to push "queerness" as something undefined and ambiguous. literally every single character in this book makes their "queerness" their entire personality. you listen to mitski? you're sooo queer! you wear flannels? man, you're a GODTIER gay!
god fucking damn it, becky.
I can see how this book might have been MILDLY relevant to a curious 14 year old in 2015 who spends all of their free time on tumblr, but in 2023? I think the fuck not. I have never met a single sane person who introduced themselves by announcing their sexual orientation and, to be fair, if you feel the need to make your sexuality your blanket personality the way these characters do then I firmly believe you have some soul-searching to do. I literally can't think of a single trait any of these characters had other than them being queer, which shouldn't even be considered a trait to begin with. it honestly wouldn't surprise me at all if this book started out as a fanfiction for a fandom with pre-made characters and thus there would have been no need to properly describe their personalities because they would have been implied to the reader from the start. it just feels to me like the author forgot that we don't know the characters like she does and that we need her to introduce them to us. in that, I feel like she failed with this one.
it's not an entirely bad book. it has its cute moments, for sure, but those moments are unfortunately overshadowed by the sheer inconsistency of it all. there's just too much shaming and one-upping each other's queerness going on between the characters for me to take whatever message this book is trying to convey to heart. being queer is not a competition. you can't "win" at being queer.
last but not least, let it be known that I am saying all of this as a queer person myself, and had I been a character in this book then surely me writing this review would have been seen as even more "proof" of my queerness. I mean, writing a bitter book review? that's sooooo queer!
jokes aside, I hope everyone else has a better time with this book than I did!...more
this took me SO LONG to get into and idk why?? it's not particularly slow or anything but I did find it quite predictable in a rom-com sense ⭐️ 2.5 ⭐️
this took me SO LONG to get into and idk why?? it's not particularly slow or anything but I did find it quite predictable in a rom-com sense which kind of made me just wait for every event to pass. overall it was enjoyable though!!...more
having read the first three books (which had already steadily declined in quality as the series progressed) I felt compelled to read the last o⭐️ 2 ⭐️
having read the first three books (which had already steadily declined in quality as the series progressed) I felt compelled to read the last one as well simply to put a proper end to the misery. unfortunately, my time seems to have been wasted because there is absolutely nothing of worth to find here. persephone has got to be one of the the dullest heroines of the century and yet every single soul gravels at her feet all the damn time?? it's just not realistic, not even for a fantasy series. also, what is the point of having hades' perspective in the main series when there is literally an entire other version of the series written from his perspective? miss st. clair, your cash-grabbyness is showing.
the story was flat. the characters were flat. the "spice" was painfully repetitive and ill-placed, like it was just there to fill up the spaces of absolute flatness in-between. I hated it. my eyes stung. literally the only thing I enjoyed in this book (and also the only reason why I gave it two stars rather than the one star it genuinely deserves) was the three or so pages of dionysus posing as a shitty doctor, but that is frankly a small grace to find in a nearly 600 page book. in previous books I have also found hermes funny but unfortunately he was absolutely dishonored in this one. it was painfully unfunny how funny miss st. clair tried to force him to be. he deserves better than a seat at the comic relief table.
at the end of the day this series had so much potential to be good but it is clear to me now that it is plain Bad and I do not think that I can in good conscience recommend it to anyone. goodbye...more
every time I try to type out “regan� on my phone it wants to autocorrect it to “rehab� and I think that’s all that needs to be said about this ⭐️ 2 ⭐️
every time I try to type out “regan� on my phone it wants to autocorrect it to “rehab� and I think that’s all that needs to be said about this book...more
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