
loved the narrator but the story was kinda meh for me…maybe i missed something… #unpopularopinion #audiophile #readinggoal

loved the narrator but the story was kinda meh for me…maybe i missed something… #unpopularopinion #audiophile #readinggoal

I‘m late finishing this one for #nancydrewbr and I think I have another potentially #unpopularopinion. 😂 I was surprised to see this with a 33% rating and I enjoyed it for exactly the reasons many hated it. While I have major objections to the Romany stereotypes and the pejorative used to name them, I liked that the mystery didn‘t involve a lot of secret rooms and exploding oranges. The side characters were awful, but that was part of the charm.

Perhaps without the hype I would‘ve enjoyed this one more. Lots of anachronisms, which drives me bananas. I liked the start with the parents, but when it got to their kids‘ lives it devolved into trite, well trod boomer lit fic. The narrator was great, which was good because it was almost 16 hours!!

Oof. I had high expectations for this one—female serial killer who chooses a victim while she works at a beach resort every July—but it fell flat. The writing never fully engaged me, and it took a really, really long time before MC Lily acknowledges what she does every summer (if you did not read the cover nor any book summaries, you‘d be very confused with the aside comments she makes up until this point). There are other things that confuse ⬇️⬇️

It‘s August and I‘m taking over the hosting from Meg for our final two #CampLitsy25 books. Today we‘re discussing Part One of Tilt.
As ever, if you‘ve read ahead, please try not to include spoilers for those who haven‘t.
Also, I‘ll only be tagging all of you in this question. Scroll down to find the other two questions. Enjoy!

#Unpopularopinion. It took me a long time to read this book and that‘s probably because it‘s so boring and annoying. Frank and Cleo are married on a whim and this book is about their based-on-nothing marriage and the friends surrounding the couple. Everyone is beautiful and doing drugs and alcohol and anti depressants. I didn‘t see the point. At all. #Roll100

my weekend read…another OT day…and so far enjoying it #audiobook #readinglife #readinggoal #unpopularopinion UPDATE: DNF…had such high hopes but find myself drifting and kept restarting chapters—i think i am officially in a reading slump

#unpopularopinion time. Repetitive AF. I knew going in that this was spicy, which is fine, but there was sexy times in every chapter except for 2, maybe 3. And it just seemed like the MCs did literally nothing but bang it out, so I don‘t buy that they formed an emotional connection. When they did talk, it was mostly about each other‘s private parts. And if I never hear the words cock, beaver, or monster ever again, that would be fine with me!

#UnpopularOpinion
I appreciated what the author is trying to do here but for me she wasn‘t successful. I didn‘t buy the central relationship - there was too little to show how they came to care for one another. It‘s a trope I rarely enjoy or find convincing so maybe it‘s just me. The writing is good and the background story is really important. I‘m extra critical when I think a book could be truly great but misses the mark, so only a so-so.