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Check & Mate
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bookshelves: arc, age-new-adult-or-adult, genre-realistic-fiction, opinion-overhyped, rep-lgbtqia, rep-mf-relationship, type-friends-to-lovers, type-insta-love, z-1-star, 辱౨ৎ
Apr 20, 2023
bookshelves: arc, age-new-adult-or-adult, genre-realistic-fiction, opinion-overhyped, rep-lgbtqia, rep-mf-relationship, type-friends-to-lovers, type-insta-love, z-1-star, 辱౨ৎ
1.5 ⭐️ 's. tldr if the queen's gambit was made for y/n by a millennial
edit/psa:
1) i AM the audience for this novel - im a teenager
2) no i didnt hate read this and even if i did that was my choice stop acting like im dictating what you read
3) these are my opinions if you enjoy reading about scalp asmr or jungkook fanfic then good for you but dont comment and attack my stance when ive made it clear
mentioning ao3, tumblr, percy jackson gifs, jungkook, zendaya, harry styles, billie eilish, bts, paris hilton, dragon age, timothee chalomet, malala, candy crush, taylor swift ca. 2016, thanos, the hunger games, lilo & stitch, you (the tv show), riverdale, jughead/cole sprouse, jeff bezos, twitter, snapchat, michelle obama, tinder, michael phelps, donna tartt, tony stark, christian dior (savage), discord, bruce wayne, corpse bride, bob ross, scalp massage asmr is not hot.
(pls appreciate the time i took screenshotting each page with a reference to include here 😘)
edit/psa:
1) i AM the audience for this novel - im a teenager
2) no i didnt hate read this and even if i did that was my choice stop acting like im dictating what you read
3) these are my opinions if you enjoy reading about scalp asmr or jungkook fanfic then good for you but dont comment and attack my stance when ive made it clear
mentioning ao3, tumblr, percy jackson gifs, jungkook, zendaya, harry styles, billie eilish, bts, paris hilton, dragon age, timothee chalomet, malala, candy crush, taylor swift ca. 2016, thanos, the hunger games, lilo & stitch, you (the tv show), riverdale, jughead/cole sprouse, jeff bezos, twitter, snapchat, michelle obama, tinder, michael phelps, donna tartt, tony stark, christian dior (savage), discord, bruce wayne, corpse bride, bob ross, scalp massage asmr is not hot.
(pls appreciate the time i took screenshotting each page with a reference to include here 😘)
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Reading Progress
April 20, 2023
– Shelved
April 20, 2023
– Shelved as:
not-released-yet
June 1, 2023
– Shelved as:
tbr-arcs
June 7, 2023
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Started Reading
June 7, 2023
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3.0%
"she's thinking abt how she sexted her mom cause she lost a chess match?? someone pls explain the correlation"
June 7, 2023
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73.0%
"“It’s kind of like chess. I do one thing . . .� I undo the first button of his jeans, slowly. Feel, more than hear, the hitch of his breath. “And you do another"
i'm sorry but why is she talking abt chess in the middle of this 😟"
i'm sorry but why is she talking abt chess in the middle of this 😟"
June 13, 2023
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Finished Reading
June 14, 2023
– Shelved as:
arc
June 14, 2023
– Shelved as:
age-new-adult-or-adult
June 14, 2023
– Shelved as:
genre-realistic-fiction
June 14, 2023
– Shelved as:
opinion-overhyped
June 14, 2023
– Shelved as:
rep-lgbtqia
June 14, 2023
– Shelved as:
rep-mf-relationship
June 14, 2023
– Shelved as:
type-friends-to-lovers
June 14, 2023
– Shelved as:
type-insta-love
June 14, 2023
– Shelved as:
z-1-star
January 2, 2024
– Shelved as:
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asdhgfjfg this seems like it's going to be like a Hallmark movie YA 2016 romance mix and I'm here for it being terribly good. Also? That cover? I love it so much!!
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If you don’t want it I can take over!
the review paragraph looks like a reels caption of someone tagging all the random ass hashtags just to increase traffic lmao
th. wrote: "the review paragraph looks like a reels caption of someone tagging all the random ass hashtags just to increase traffic lmao"thats what the author intended ig 😭
LMFAO OMG the author really did that huh 😭😭
... was the author trying to write a book or were they on a challenge to include all the pop culture references they could?
@nivedita tbh idek all ali hazelwood books are like this 😭
Nivedita wrote: "... was the author trying to write a book or were they on a challenge to include all the pop culture references they could?"
oh god then i'm never picking up one
this list is ngl impressive
now i kind of want to read it to see for myself😭😂
Love corpse bride though but good lord that’s a LOT of references
i got annoyed at this book by just reading that list. i JUST wrote in my review of vera wong's unsolicited advice to murderers how much i hate pop culture references, when will authors learn!!
babe you can just leave it @ that, no other thoughts necessary. will be steering clear 🏃♀️🏃♀�
i hate when books do that unless it’s taylor swift
I feel like Ali Hazelwood just writes like a millennial and this is the best way to explain it 😭😭😭
JUNGKOOK?????$(#($(
omg you just saved me I will now refuse to read this LOLOL
Omg thank you for this review and saving me the frustration.
ive read less than 10 pages so far and already have 3 screenshots
Perhaps you’re not the intended audience?
the way i didn't use to hate little tidbits to the real world with references, but now i just wanna escape in a stupid romance, lemme do that without the mention of goddamn discord or riverdale :,)
Oh my god are you serious? That’s an unhealthy amount of pop culture references
I'll read it just for the BTS and Jung Kook references xD
Yeah, authors, stop referencing relevant pop culture in your books! Especially when the characters can reasonably enjoy them! Y'all aren't cool for not liking that stuff and complaining about it.
emma griffioen! wrote: "i got annoyed at this book by just reading that list. i JUST wrote in my review of vera wong's unsolicited advice to murderers how much i hate pop culture references, when will authors learn!!"you do realize you are not the sole audience for books, right? most people enjoy them, but if you want to be insufferable and complain anytime mainstream things are mentioned in a book I'm sure you can find other things to read.
@M it's fine to include them! it's just authors like ali hazelwood do it so constantly and awkwardly it's like an ad commercial within a book which makes the wide/general audience greatly dislike them - i personally have only heard ppl enjoying song references but everyone ik hates tiktok references
wow that's an unhealthy amount of pop culture references
that... is an extremely concerning amount.
oh…that’s uhm…a lot 💀💀
idk why ali hazelwood insists on inserting every possible ick into her books like ???
i haven't really noticed it being that prevalent in her books, to be honest, and not to this degree. and tiktok references are pretty popular in, like, everyday life so it's only natural that it bleeds into literary life too. if you don't like it, that's fine, but if you keep reading the author that you know does that it feels disingenuous when you review because you complain about things you knew were going to be there.
@M i mean ig we have different opinions...because if i screenshotted every reference i was doing it every other page (for this one and steminist#2) - and yes pop references are natural in all contemporaries but i just don't personally like it which is why i mentioned it. and i read this one bc i was excited to see her ya side and i like chess, not a hate read primarily!
ash ౨ৎ wrote: "@M i mean ig we have different opinions...because if i screenshotted every reference i was doing it every other page (for this one and steminist#2) - and yes pop references are natural in all conte..."well yeah if this is a YA read there are going to be a lot more pop culture references because of the demographic it's geared toward lol like maybe you aren't the target audience if this is YA and she's putting in references the YA audience would get and like. because in her other books i've read there haven't been that many pop culture references. i never said it was a hate read, but if you're reading something in a younger genre, you're going to get younger references. and you not liking it isn't the author "not getting it" it's the author catering to an audience you aren't in.
@M lol i am young..? the author is Trying to cater but imo a few more beta reads (by young ppl) would be better served. as the primary audience (and even on online platforms of teens) many of us do hate these pop references when Done Badly.
SCALP MASSAGE ASMR??? gurl references need to have limits and this has surpassed them
This is the worst book I’ve ever read
I didn’t think the pop culture references were overdone, she writes it so much better than other authors do
when she inserted the mean girls "she doesn't even go here" ..
and bill nye fanfiction!!
Seriously though, why do I have to look up all these references to make sense of what she’s saying? And I’m not even halfway through yet
I don’t mind references but this is just yikes. It’s definitely giving millennial trying to relate to gen-z. Will not be reading this one lmao
the references were not that prevalent or obnoxious and matched the ages of the characters tbh esp the younger tween/teen sisters
