Brittany Gappa

Not enough fun facts

Revisado: 05-27-23

Best fact I learned was that DNA decays over time, lasting only about 6 million years, so any bones older than that cannot be sequenced. The author added voice to the text by making un-fun puns and strange anecdotes that were distracting. I ended up listening at 1.5 speed and not having any trouble following.

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Beautiful story telling

Revisado: 04-27-23

Similar in vibe to Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver and Uprooted. Moira Quirk is an amazing narrator and I'll continue to listen to projects she's a part of.

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Characters childish and frustrating

Revisado: 12-17-22

Solid fantasy with a unique magic system. I had a really hard time rooting for either of the main characters. They want to change the world but without sacrificing anything in the process, which comes across as unrealistic and grating. The falcon is more outspoken about it, demanding freedom and mocking those around her while not putting in any positive effort into changing the world she hates. The falconer spends most of the book pouting because politicians are not honest and because she just wants to be a *normal girl* but then gets angry about things being the way that they are and wonders why she has no power to make change. Girl, I'm sorry, but you have to understand the system in order to play it. I did really like the ending. It was fast paced, and the main characters experienced some of the tough choices they needed to think about in order to accomplish their goals. Overall, a solid read but I won't be looking into the sequels.

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Solid fantasy

Revisado: 11-29-22

I don't really have strong feelings about the story. The world building suffered from having too many important settings to the story. However, the characters are relatable and struggle to recover from immense trauma, which is admirable. I enjoyed the magic and the pacing of the romance was perfect.
There are two narrators, and I found switching between the two starting halfway through (as opposed to the beginning) to be jarring. The first narrator is fabulous. I really loved how she pulled different voices and accents without taking me out of the story. The second narrator does different voices and accents for established characters which makes it difficult to remember who we're hearing about. Additionally, he emphasizes all of his sections by speaking with intensity and gasping for breath and it really took me out.

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Stream of consciousness of a depressed girl

Revisado: 11-25-22

Bunny would have been better as a short story or a novella. There are a lot of similarities to the Bell Jar, except the characters other than the protagonist come across as very two dimensional.

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Love the grotesque descriptions!

Revisado: 06-07-22

Neil Gaiman is a robot. I don't understand how he can crank out such beautiful stories and also narrate and also write for the screen and also be a cool dude. Unreal.

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Derivative YA

Revisado: 05-24-22

Similar to a number of other books that I've read set in a magical school but the characters are boring and not well fleshed out. The magic system doesn't have set rules or clear levels, which makes thinking about it as a concept pointless. Slavery is not the most important issue for the main character to face and that is very problematic.

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Needlessly boring and elitist

Revisado: 04-20-22

There could have been no magic in the story and it would not have made a difference at all. We're supposed to care about the welfare of magical beings that never make an appearance and are constantly infantalized, which isn't something I even realized until almost the end. I don't even think the in book characters care about "faeries" beyond being magical batteries, in which case it's kind of magically racist that only someone with magic can inherit. Honestly, I was team Naomi. If my POS uncle who wasn't there for me growing up or when my mom died was also denying me my inheritance, I'd be pissed too.
Hold on to your hat and be prepared for reading about such intrigue as: learning to cook, paying bills, purchasing a car, installing an internet connection, running errands, getting a physical and much, much more! Nevermind that pesky PTSD that we keep hinting at, or the actually interesting magical events that happened before the story, we have appropriate silverware and sherry glasses to catalog.

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We stan Ortis, Protesalaous, and Pyrrha Dve

Revisado: 03-28-22

If you liked Gideon the ninth, you'll like this sequel too. The narrator is even funnier in this book than the first which I didn't think was possible. A bit hard to follow what was going on, but hoping the third book clears things up

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A tree with all it's branches

Revisado: 03-11-22

I normally read science fiction and fantasy so this book was a little bit of a chore for me to get through. HOWEVER, The Overstory is a beautifully written story with distinct and diverse characters all with believable depth to their backstories. I thought a lot about what I was reading, about what the message was, about what I was learning, and about what I agreed with and disagreed with. I haven't processed a book this way in a long time. The narrator adds to the experience; they have a rich voice that's easy to listen to, and the accents and tones pulled for different characters are subtle enough not to be distracting. Overall, a very worthwhile read that I would recommend for anyone to read at least once.

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