Even after he broke up with his boyfriend Theo, even when Theo started seeing Jackson, Griffin expected them to be endgame someday. But then Theo died at 18 and Griffin is left a wreck of grief, guilt, and compulsion. A very intense story with intriguing twists; it engrossed and affected me but was almost too depressing to enjoy.
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pickI enjoyed this and the grounding in details of the wool industry quite a bit ultimately, but waiting for the payoff had me anxious, especially given the relationship between them also gets so amped up and explosive.
And a #BookSpinBingo blackout, and it's not even the last day of the month! It just kinda. Happened.
You know, sometimes I wish it was normal to just have full plot summaries for every book out there on the internet for easy lookup. Right now I'm being too neurodivergent to read more of this book without knowing how things work out, but I keep reading a chapter at a time because I do *want* to finish it.
I'm not really sure why this isn't 100% clicking for me? I'd expected to adore it, but I'm much more inclined to pick up Paladin's Faith (which I'm reading at the same time). Hmm.
pickI was tempted to read vol 4 of MDZS but in the end I used my internetless evening to finish this off. Now just two books left to complete my November #BookSpinBingo.
This was okay. Fairly predictable, all in all, with the main characters both stupidly keeping secrets. A very light pick, maybe a so-so. I wasn't tempted to DNF but I won't read more in the series.
pickThis was the only available book of Adam Silvera at our library right now, so I went with this one. I don't know what I expected, but it sure wasn't what I got. It took me a while to get into it, but at some point the story really takes off. It's heart-breaking, moving and sometimes hard to read. And it's a very, very, very important message Silvera shares with us.
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pickOof, I wish it didn't bounce around in time so much!
But oh boy, that first kiss was SO cute. Ahh, Lan Wangji, you're such an idiot.
pickAn absolute heartbreaker! Two limbs: both are Australian girls who are attracted to/in love with their female best friends. Told in alternating chapters: one limb grows up to marry a man, the other is out and lives with found family. Both women/stories are impacted by the AIDS epidemic and both tragic, albeit with very different events. I loved this and was torn apart by both women‘s stories.
pickFish male pregnancy was not on my bingo board for this year ...
This is still delightful but I didn't enjoy it as much as the other volumes. I don't like the perfect children trope and the children featured very heavily in this
I decided to get started on this right away, so I won't fall out of remembering who's who again, and can build on what I remember from book two.
Of course, that means it's instantly gone into flashback mode with some new characters on top...
