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I love trying out stories based on the snow queen fairy tale, but I am sooo not interested in wonderkin boys who give attitude to the female lead because she's a "burden". Just...no.

She doesn't like him calling her sweetheart and has asked him to stop and he. keeps. doing. it. The more I read the less I like how much he's objectifying and obsessing over her.

I don't even know why I'm trying to push through and finish this series. I hate it. It's so abusive. An entire crowd of men NOT ONE stands up for her and says anything about it being wrong that they ripped off her shirt and basically displayed her in front of everyone. They all just stare at her boobs and call her a witch. I don't care if it has happened historically somewhere somehow. I don't have to read this shit.

I don't know why people like this book. I'm barely two hours in and we have a therapist asking his patient out on a date (and still pursuing her even after she turned him down), a girl repeatedly raped by her father and his brother, and now a man just asked the main character of she was menstruating because she was angry. I am never reading anything by this author again.

I don't like this book. I've tried three different times to start it and never got far. The first main character is a waste of fictional air. I don't care that so many people liked this book. I'm done trying.

Frankly pissed off that Clines had his main (female) character apologizing to another man for perceived propositioning after she's just been sexually harassed by another man who should have been never allowed to travel to the moon. Especially since that same man also admitted that he had the same idea of fucking every woman on the moon when he first got there.

*Spent four hours updating Peter Pan page on Wikipedia with loads of re-tellings*

*Still hasn't updated her currently-reading list to mark the Wendy Darling books that inspired this effort as Read*

I swear, every time I read a new Fred the Vampire book I want to go back and read all of them. Sadly, I don't have time right now, but this is just a good series to read when you need a fun story with genuinely kind characters. Fred is just so comfortable being himself and so accepting of others and yet he still manages to have adventures. If only more characters like these were out there.

This is not a good start. The kid's mother has outlined the dangers very clearly yet the kid is acting like a damned idiot. I hate him already.

Harper's books always cheer me up. This time she's started a series that is in many ways more small town than Half Moon Hollow, but without the supernatural aspect. And, as usual, the story is as much about finding family/community as it is about love. But I especially like that the family business is fishing/tourism and running a funeral service. LOL

I don't know. this just... bores me. I'm tired of women living in a patriarchal world and being the cool exception. If that is the only way your character rocks, they are insufficient as far as I'm concerned.

I was so close to finishing this book and I just...wasn't interested enough to continue. Perhaps some other time when I have more patience. The world is certainly interesting, but... not right now.

About halfway through the book and just don't have any enthusiasm for the characters so I'm done.

Lost interest once the female character was introduced. She's not at all believable.

I started this. Stopped. Read six novella prequels to the Dorothy Must Die series and re-started this series again. It's holding up better this time around so I'm thinking it was more a mood thing.

I have given this book over a week and I'm just not interested enough to continue. Nothing is truly terrible, but nothing is great either. The one thing that is cool about it, the fact that it is set in a generation ship, just isn't relevant enough right now and I've lost patience waiting for that gem to come to fruit.

Honestly, it feels like Narro just came up with a couple of ideas and started writing about the characters and situations but didn't go back and tighten things up so they felt seamless. I got about a third of the way through the book before I asked the question "Why am I reading this?" and couldn't give a good answer. Backing away slowly.