amrabad's reviews
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It makes me so immensely angry that this level of misogyny isn’t taken seriously for how harmful and dangerous it actually is. 

Soft DNFing for now (but will probably forget about it entirely). This was purchased for me while working towards my masters in social work and now that I’ve been in the field for a decade it hasn’t been anything especially new or interesting and I just don’t feel like reading something this long if I’m not going to gain anything from it. 

Bella is a terrible friend and forgot her own personality as soon as a pretty boy that wasn’t one of the other five boys in love with her decided to be moody, cryptic and threatening in her direction. Good thing he’s a cold marble made of glitter and Greek god. Every time she said his voice and laugh were musical all I could think of was wind chimes. It was dumb and bad and I will be reading the next one, but keep your cold lips to yourself. 

I loved the longer book as much as the shorter ones. I’m so excited to see what happens next in the series. 

Better than anticipated. Also had some incredible puns. 

I do not have the chemistry capabilities to understand any of this. 

What a cute little book. It was funny and thoughtful and I really liked the characters. 

I genuinely felt uneasy listening to this, but like in the best way

 I was let down by this. I get that there are a lot of cursed things out there, but it would’ve been nice to learn more about fewer things. I listened to this and the narration was good. Each chapter was about a different cursed object. A majority of the chapters were only about 6 minutes and there was A LOT of chapters. 

Aside from too much and not enough info at the same time, I wonder about whether or not I can trust the research behind the factoids. In the chapter about the Ring of Silvianus he mentioned that it inspired Tolkien’s One Ring and he said the ring was made by dwarves. If you know anything about LotR you know that’s wrong and that’s a very easy fact to check. He also mentioned in the chapter about Little Mannie with his daddy’s horns he said “I assume” in regards to why it was named that. Do you assume because you didn’t do the research or because it is unknown why? If it’s unknown, just say that. 

Ultimately, I only finished it because I wanted something in the background while working on a project. I really don’t remember anything about any of the cursed objects and don’t feel like I gained anything by reading this book. It had so much potential to be morbidly interesting, but here we are feeling underwhelmed instead.