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i really enjoyed piranesi, weird as it was. this book? i fucking DESPISE IT. every character is a fucking asshole. the problem is that every other book in this challenge is WORSE. fuck you goodreads.

i thought i was going to have to bail because ibrahim was so irritating and i haven’t the patience for bullshit-even from book characters. it’s getting more interesting, though i’m skipping the bits with the POS mugger kid because i don’t have enough calm to be angry with one more person.

and just like that it loses a star for animal cruelty

FINALLY. i’m not at all surprised that this author said “fuck you” to abuse porn and made selena strong, if a bit battered and careworn from years of gaslighting. instead of a whiny heroine who refuses to make decisions, we get a bad bitch who’s getting her confidence back.
bless you.

i’m likely going to dnf this book.
the narrator is not good
the male antagonist is such a prick that i already can’t listen to his parts and i’m still in the first chapter.
if you’re going to make romance the main subplot, SAY SO. you may think everyone enjoys a little romance in every book, but it’s not so. please leave that garbage in your YA romance work.

i am literally begging authors to stop writing antagonistic characters that are so fucking infuriating that i DNF your fucking book.
and a note to narrators: i am happy to pack away my grammar/pronunciation police tendencies with the average person in the street. HOWEVER. if your JOB is to read what others have written, the least you can do is learn to pronounce it correctly.
there are two r’s in library. ffs

loses a star for dog murder.

i either need authors to write less whiny and irritating antagonistic side characters or i need narrators to tone down the whining in their delivery. i shouldn’t be getting annoyed and rageful listening to a fantasy novel. minus one star for lottie’s existence.

this book has lost a star because in all the stories i’ve read, bran isn’t a FUCKING PUSSY. now he’s suddenly equating a CHILD being turned against her will with ADULTS and jo chose to be monsters. that’s some fucking bullshit. i have never been this angry with patricia briggs AND I DONT LIKE KIDS. but the hypocrisy is next level grotesque.

this is losing a star because of the extraneous and egregiously repetitive description of dog murder.

re-reading this in order to move forward in the series.

i love hobbes and the whole crew as much as i hate andy. jfc. i get that there needs to be a stupid sidekick but he makes hastings (poirot) look like fucking genius. as a person with adhd, i can get behind a character who struggles with getting stuff done as much as i do. however andy doesn’t try, doesn’t listen, and refuses to take responsibility.

honestly i just started this book and i already hate it. i’m so sick to death of authors profiting from the backs of abuse towards women. their work seems to imply that things have vastly improved for people without a penis. i’m here with no bodily autonomy to say “fuck you. that’s not true”.
this entire list of books is depressingly alike and i’m not interested in any of it as i live the nightmare.

this book was published while i was in high school. like the “prey” series by john sandford, i’ve been reading this author for over half my life. at some point i had to stop because the depictions of violence started to read like torture porn. also lucy, who was an irritating child, grew into a complete fucking asshole.
there’s so much outdated tech, i can’t sort how this became a series.

oh good. let’s add rape.

i’m hate reading this piece of shit for the black history month reading challenge because everything else is worse. the people who chose the selections need to be smacked.

i hate the multiple narrator format. i detest the flashback format. i despise when authors name all the characters so similarly or vaguely that i cannot keep them straight. when you combine all three it’s a recipe for frustration. add multiple nicknames and stage names for every character to all three, and this book is a fucking nightmare. and the explicit depictions of body parts was repulsive.

i don’t think every book by a black author is filled with abuse and grotesque sex so why are all the choices for goodreads’ black history month challenge so upsetting. this is the third book i have tried from the challenge. as much as i like nonfiction, the reality in 2026 makes reading about abuse triggering. the novels are all violent and abusive. do better.

i had to skip the absolutely disgusting first 5 chapters of horrifyingly graphic shit about breeding and shitting out a kid. i tried to find another book for this challenge once i realized this book was going to be super triggering. unfortunately everything else in that challenge was equally repellent for a variety of pregnancy and animal murder related reasons.

this book just lost two stars for cat murder. it didn’t advance the plot and it was unnecessary and cruel. if i weren’t so close to the end i’d bail right now. stupid sunk cost fallacy.

i love the series. my only beef is that the author has written such despicable villains and then they suffer zero consequences.

i was already edgy about everything happening in the us right now and am now having to take a break from this book. the narrator and author have captured the greed and machiavellian plotting a little too well. the way the government is trying to control history and making quiet threats is just too real.