Hooked on Books discussion

Members Starting the BR: Dede, Jessica and Danielle
Challenge: Toys/Objects Roundup
Book: Sweetpea by C.J. Skuse

Anyone is free to join in this Buddy Read! Happy Reading!

I'm looking forward to this one... and how you guys will like or not like it. This will be my THIRD relisten. For me, the narrator is perfect for the dead-pan delivery. if you are eye reading it, I hope you enjoy it!

My last listen was back in 2023 - which I think I did in lead up to doing the more recent ones that had come out at the time. I just looked, yes I did books 1-4 in 2023... and then did the most recent book 5 in Dec 2024.

I'm ready to dive back into where it all started in the twisted, dark, funny as hell (to me) mind of Rhiannon!

I started. Only 3% in… but 2 quick thoughts

1. I love the lists at the start of chapters. … I’ll say more about this later on.
2. Of all the funny, snarky lines… I love this one when talking about the need to have friends. They’re the Wilson to my skinny toothless homeward bound Tom Hanks

4% .... (view spoiler)[and her first murder!! (hide spoiler)]

2nd chapter (Monday, Jan 1) ... still 4%
(view spoiler)[Here's when we find out those lists are KILL lists! hahahaha

How did you feel hearing her say it's been 3 years since she killed anyone? (hide spoiler)]

I have just started this book. I may not really get into it til tomorrow.

I don't know how to hide spoilers... but at 7% OMG!

Ok (view spoiler)[ I laughed so much at her talking about killing again. "Like it's boiling in my blood" HAHAHA (hide spoiler)]

Dede wrote: "Ok [spoilers removed]"

Isn’t she great? Now THIS is the kind of “unlikeable” character I love. I mean, she isn’t right in the head. But deliciously so.

danielle wrote: "Dede wrote: "Ok [spoilers removed]"

Isn’t she great? Now THIS is the kind of “unlikeable” character I love. I mean, she isn’t right in the head. But deliciously so."

I so agree!!!

her one-liners come at me so fast, I have to sometimes stop & process!!

chapter "Friday, 2 February" - 14%
(view spoiler)[ Like the underpaid dumb ass I am, took it on the chin like a ball sack (hide spoiler)]

🤣🤣🤣

I'm currently at 21%. So I am enjoying it, but sadly am not laughing at all. I have read other books with similar types of characters that are much funnier. Two that come to mind are Jane Doe and You'd Look Better As a Ghost. So far this is just meh for me.

Also it took me a minute, but I finally get what is happening at her parents' house. Someone can hold a grudge!

I am really enjoying this book. I hate that Jessica, you are not enjoying it. She is cracking me up.

Maybe I would like it better if I eye read it, but still not sure it would do it.

I wouldn’t say I laugh…. But I appreciate the snark. So I find it entertaining. And I think the narration and dead pan delivery helps this.

Maybe I am just boring and have no adult interaction that I find it funny... HAHA

Not a fan of how negative she is about her body and is constantly referencing having to eat salads or how an eclair made her gain 2 pounds.

And now she comments about someone's ass is too big for their shorts.

I mean, I guess given that she’s a psychopath, and those are the lines that you picked up on….. I mean, those are her most normal intrusive thoughts. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Maybe i just had too high of expectations going in. I do have a pretty dark sense of humor. I am not not liking the book. Just not as much as I was expecting to.

All her comments/thoughts are inappropriate… and I guess those are the mildest. But I can see not liking it if those stand out the most. This book, and Rhiannon, is generally loved or hated. I like her, and will likely give the book 4 stars again.

I am at 34% (view spoiler)[ I can't wait to see how she is going to frame Craig for murders or something else. (hide spoiler)]

Ok, so I have been smirking a bit. The tile joke at 40% and a couple of other comments.

Jessica wrote: "Ok, so I have been smirking a bit. The tile joke at 40% and a couple of other comments."

She grows on you… like a fungus. 🤣

Ok so there is definitely something wrong with me. My favorite comments are the ones comparing people/places to/containing STIs.

Jessica wrote: "Ok so there is definitely something wrong with me. My favorite comments are the ones comparing people/places to/containing STIs."

LOL

"Queue Mr. Burns hands" LOL

@42%

"By day, a family water park. By night, a petri dish of chlamydia"

danielle wrote: "@42%

"By day, a family water park. By night, a petri dish of chlamydia""

This!!!

Finished! Ok so it does end on a cliffhanger, but i may have looked up the 2nd book and the they tell you what happens in the 1st line of the book two synopsis. I am not against continuing, but not running to continue either. I did end up giving it 4 stars, but really more a 3.75.

(view spoiler)[ so i feel bad for AJ, but not surprised at what happened either. such a baby at 19. that being said, there is definitely a difference having him pretend to be dead and actual necrophilia activities, which i am pretty sure would have occurred if the door wasn't knocked on at the end. (hide spoiler)]

I'm almost finished....

this was a book... good or bad... that was FULL of one-liners where sometimes you'd have to ask yourself if you heard what you heard

I thought this book was good. I think I overlooked some of the one liners she talked about.

FINISHED. Still a solid 4 stars for me. And NOW I remember that it totally ends on a cliffy and made me scream before i could get my hands on book 2 the first time!

Dede wrote: "I thought this book was good. I think I overlooked some of the one liners she talked about."

I think in part they stand out more for me because of the narration. Best narrator for Rhiannon IMO.

Jessica wrote: "Finished! Ok so it does end on a cliffhanger, but i may have looked up the 2nd book and the they tell you what happens in the 1st line of the book two synopsis. I am not against continuing, but not..."

I'm happy you ended up not hating it. I sort of thought, me knowing you & your tastes, that this would land well with you. Maybe you had to warm up to her some. I mean, she's out there!

Jessica wrote: "[spoilers removed]"

100%. spot on. a ... well, creepy af!!!😳