pranjuli's reviews
168 reviews

I am just not getting it. What is this about? What are these words written? Am I stupid? Seriously. I can't make any sense of it. 

Hmmm. No. I don't want to. It was weird and tiring. 

She made the rules - so she could just break them all. That's Agatha Christie. The best at the job. 

Fun, gossipy, Poirot-yy, indulgent, probably meta? As I said - fun. 

i maybe probably definitely wanted to see a bit more of Ralph Paton. Didn't know him at all, so couldn't root for him, even when he was proved innocent by our M. Poirot.

 was good, but could have been SO much better. The beginning and the END had so much heart, so much reflection, such honesty - it blew me away. I just don't know what happened in the middle. It was just - this happened, then this happened, then this happened. Just info info info. Hardly any reflection. 
Maybe I'm being too harsh, but I really didn't feel for Thi's father and mother while they went through possibly one of the most harrowing times people can go through. 
The last chapter though. Made me emotional, made me cry, will make me return. 

Cute, fun, sexy, cozy. Nice and flowy writing, one that doesn't make you struggle to read and doesn't make the story cheap. I really enjoyed. Read in a single sitting (although that says more about the time and mental place I was in when I picked it). Mostly liked the main male characters, LOOUUVVVEEDDD Cyrus, Beth was also  very well-carved out as a character. Really liked her as well. 

What I did not like was the absolute lack of other female characters, atleast the lack of redeemable female characters. I don't know if the author has some personal grudge against hers or someone else's mother, but not a single mother in the book was redeemable. That's weird, right? Like atleast give me reasons why they were being such assholes. And ONLY the mothers, actually. Beth's, Seb's, Cyrus's, Cami's. Most other family members were okay-ish (atleast tolerable to an extent). But somehow, EACH AND EVERY mother wasn't a good mother. 

Because of this the epilogue 'mother's day' scene didn't seem to have come full circle.

Anyway, it was cute. It was SMUTTY. The relationship wasn't made weird. It was nice, really. I enjoyed it. :) 

Weird quantum shit, neither interesting nor well-explained. So much info-dump on every page. Characters not developed at all. Random sentences thrown in at places to create an illusion of a character, but in actual, you can not picture a person at all. Just words. 

Dialogues are mainly expository. Things are told, not shown. Plot is obvious and easy to guess. I wasn't even interested to know what happened to any of them or to the story at the end. Just words thrown in like - randomize, quant, qbits. Without these words this story is legit 5 sentences long. That's it. 

Andy Weir wasn't interested in this. 

I wanna know more and lesser at the same time. Tara has a gift - this is undeniable, and her story is one of inspiration and abandon at the same time. I am horrified as well as gratified. 

Weirdly, despite being a story so away from our lives, Tara doesn't come across as an alien when discussing about her feelings and fears and how she felt when thrown into new situations after living a completely different life for 17 years. She doesn't feel unnatural, she doesn't come across as miraculous either. 
She is a woman, just like any of us, who had to grapple with so much.