Reviews and Comments

Of the TJ Klune books I've read, this one is definitely the most stressful, with the most on-screen violence too. It's super sweet though. It hits hard on cliches in a way that I enjoyed. The memory loss trope is stretched very far, which is also fine.

I like this one a lot. It's very trauma-heavy, building on Antsy's story and on those of the Whitethorn escapees. But it goes the way I'd expect a Wayward Children story to go – not the way Lost in the Moment and Found went. (I also like Lost in the Moment and Found, but, it's on a totally different level of everything is bad and sad.) I have warm fuzzy feelings. This is about.... not passing on trauma. It's sad, and scary, and one person's happy end can be difficult for someone else... but mostly, everything just goes really well and some things are much less terrible than before. Soothing, but in a pleasantly complex way.

Sooo it looks like my loan will run out before I finish this – it's 22 hours and I didn't crochet much recently. So far it's pretty much as I expected. Interesting thought experiment and a lot of "ooooh so that thing wouldn't work either, aah", a bit dry and repetitive and humans-are-mean, a sexist vibe. What surprised me is how bad the audiobook narration is – everyone gets their own unconvincing accent, it's terrible.

Yes this is the "Blackout" that I actually wanted to read. Not the other one that I picked up accidentally.

It's a petty high school rivalry/love story, so, don't expect anything else. Buuut. I like it a lot.

I don't usually appreciate those marketing comparisons of different authors. But I kept thinking two of them: - "this is like John Green (and maybe David Levithan) but without all the stuff that makes me roll my eyes" - "this is like Courtney Summers, but without all the terrible bad things happening"

It's fairly lighthearted, it has a lot of queers, and I like how the big plot/character issues are at the same time shown as deeply important and totally everyday.

Uuuh ok this is a slightly unexpected story because it has time travel. I thought it was mostly quite enjoyable, except that the folks in the rain forest seemed a bit exotisised to me.

Thus pretty sad and hard to read. I liked it a lot, even though some of the interactions seemed unrealistic to me in a way that the ghosts didn't.

It's not as cute as the first one (and I don't remember the second one), and somehow the heteronormativity comes through stronger. But I was happy enough.

Das fand ich ziemlich entbehrlich. Aber genau passend für ein Buch, das ich versehentlich angefangen hab zu lesen.

That's a different Blackout than what I wanted to read, but I noticed a few hours in when it just refused to go to the expected direction so I guess that's the book I'm reading now!

It has its boring parts, it's hard to believe parts, it's predictable parts, it's too much parts, but I don't care, I like it. There's maps and map nerds.

I was wondering for a while if it'd go to a supernatural direction and whether I'd enjoy it more if it did or didn't. When I found out the way it went was fine with me :)

I like this a lot, but it did get more heavy than I expected. It starts out feeling like a "hah, these are tough housewives, of course they can defeat the vampire" story, but their own racism as well as their surroundings' sexism make everything go to a pretty tragic direction.

Ich würd nicht sagen, dass ich das Buch mag, aber ich mag einige Elemente davon und war am Ende ziemlich in der Geschichte drin.

Was ich mag: die KI, die Beziehungen, dass es ein wirklich detailliertes Gedankenexperiment ist.

Was ich nicht mag: Den Vibe? Die business-nerdigen Elemente? Das "es gibt genau eine Lösung und so sieht sie aus"? Ein paar Sachen, die ich nicht gut in Worte fassen kann, vor allem solche, die sich auf die aktuelle Realität beziehen.

Und von der MDMA-Dealer-Storyline war ich kein bisschen überzeugt. Bin jetzt allerdings neugierig, ob MDMA wirklich wie hier beschrieben verwendet wird in manchen Bubbles.

Uffi, ich weiß nicht, ob ich das fertig lesen will... es geht mir schon sehr auf die Nerven immer wieder.

Sooooo. I found this pretty enjoyable, except that there was more discussion of (emotional) abuse and shitty asshole stuff than I'd thought. It's in a good way, though. So. I think this is a pretty nice story. Just. The epilogue has something that irritates me so much!!