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Simple but beautiful and painful

Revisado: 04-10-24

It’s certainly written in chronological order and not particularly innovative, but Julia has quite the story and tells it well. Every adult in her life failed her as a child - love to see her overcome that horror.

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Plot holes and senseless violence

Revisado: 11-30-23

Narrator: excellent job with a badly written story. I wanted to love this book. But Zalie is not a character who you’d follow into battle - she craves revenge to the point that the need for magic to come back has very little meaning. The plot holes lost me over and over again. In the last minutes, her own dad telling her “revenge is meaningless” and in the next breath saying “if they burn our homes, we will burn theirs”???? Um… no.

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Boring and mysoginist

Revisado: 02-23-23

Nothing happened in this book. Absolutely low-stakes storyline and no real character development. Couldn’t stop cringing at the way women were described. Nice to know that ugly women are like hearth fires- loyal and sturdy because they have little value!
Yuck.

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Beautifully narrated, haunting story

Revisado: 07-02-22

I knew this was a book I needed to read. But it hits almost a little too close to the belt in 2022… amazing, solemn narration that gives even more life to Lauren’s saga. This apocalypse will taint my perception of the world for a long time.

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Absolutely blown away by this book

Revisado: 06-03-22

Krauze’s voice, quiet and yet very powerful, made this book even better than it must have been on the page. Gabriel is one of the most relatable but alien characters I’ve read in a long time. Loved every minute despite also cringing in pain at some scenes, truly an emotionally charged book. And too real.

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Tough to get through at times

Revisado: 04-24-22

Yuknavitch is definitely an excellent writer. But at times she leans too much on fraught words like daughter and father, expecting us to understand her intimately.
Plus she calls transgender people tr*nnies - not appreciated. And has a fetish for people with physically nonnormative bodies.

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My god, yes.

Revisado: 06-29-21

Dominic Hoffman is the amused teacher I never had. Absolutely hilarious and devastating book with some of the best narration I’ve ever heard.
Jesus’ cheese…

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Enjoyable, easy and well researched

Revisado: 06-29-21

Jaime Lamchik obviously had a great time reading this book, I could hear the laughter in her voice at some of the antics of the con women. Teller did her research and it showed.
The only thing I was missing was more of a conclusion. what makes us love them? What is so interesting about crime, especially white collar crime? I would have liked to see some broader analysis of these trends. But other than that, a pleasant read.

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Boring and shallow

Revisado: 09-20-20

Honestly grossman seems to be an expert... in pop culture. Why would a feminist spend half of a book on witches analyzing men’s 1990’s movies about them?

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How did this win a pulitzer?!!!

Revisado: 11-19-19

I’m so relieved to be done with this terrible, cringey book. I even had it on 1.5 speed to get it over with and it was STILL too long. The most wooden (pun intended) writing I’ve had to suffer through in a while. Characters totally unbelievable and deeply stupid and very cutesy - no real substance to anyone. “Heroics” of the worst order. Cannot believe this travesty of a novel won a pulitzer in 2019. Is this the best novel on climate change we have out there? My ears are bleeding.

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