This is about a white woman (Juniper) stealing her asian "friend" (Athena) book right after she died from choking on a pancake. When reading this book, I kept thinking of one scripture, Proverbs 26:24. Juniper is that scripture in the flesh. She embodies it so well, you would think God was watching this whole thing play out when He used Soloman to write it. I like how the book is called yellow face. It's a play on black face, I would assume, since she is pretending to be an asian woman. Which is quite odd to me. Jealousy and envy is sum else. Cause if you claim to dislike this girl so, what possessed you to cosplay as her (technically, essentially, somewhat). I mean I can definitely understand why she would dislike her but why not cut her off? Why keep being her friend after she took what you told her in confidence about you being raped and turned into a short story? But jealous and envy don't care bout that. I guess she wanted to be her so bad, she could care less bout her self respect. Or maybe she was waiting for a moment just like this. I don't understand how the book is consider a thriller tho. The whole time I'm scared to turn the next page cause I'm thinking something scary finna happen. But the moment never came. It was very interesting to see how June only claimed the book as hers when something good was said about it. It was also interesting to see how jealousy and envy makes you do some weird stuff. I never finished a book where I didn't like the main character. But hoping she got what was coming to her is what fueled my desire to finish. And she kinda sorta didn't...She was still plotting even after she was exposed. I don't know I was kinda hoping for more. I was imagining that she somehow someway actually killed her and by the end of the book it would reveal what really happened, like she made her pancakes thicker or something. I think this book is a perfect example of how social media can destroy you mentally and emotionally and what happens in jealous fueled friendships. That's really the only time I felt bad for her. They was coming for her so bad, nobody should have to deal with that.
One of my favorite books and the best out of the King of Sins series. It's an arranged marriage/fake dating trope. Vuk (main male character)fell for his best friend's "fiancee", he liked her first tho but ain tell nobody. And when Jordan went in that coma they was just going to town. Not only is the main female character, Ayana, a black woman but the book had the perfect amount of drama and tension. Vuk only speaks to those he trust, but with everybody else he communicates using sign language. Literally wish I could do that. He was obsessed with Ayana before he even got her. What nigga you know watches all your interviews and fashion shows just cause he finds you so beautiful??? He did not play bout her neither. And Ayana really liked him too, he made her feel safe...that's all a girl wants (a big, strong, fine man). I liked when she would get mad at people staring at him for too long. What I don't like about this author is how all her characters fall out over the dumbest stuff, but with this book it was valid. Vuk was killing niggas, in very inhumane ways. So they fallout was justified but we all knew they was gon get back together, so what was the point? I read this book twice, the first time front to back and the second i skimmed through it. There's a good bit of sex in it and Ayana be saying cock. That kinda sorta definitely confused me cause I don't know any black women saying cock fr (unless they playing or it's kyla tryna make momma yell at her). My favorite part is when he proposed under the Northern Lights. That's literally my dream!!!!!!! Actually I just might read it again.
Leigh Bardugo, the writer you are. You know how to tell a story!!! You should never put down a pen and if someone tells you to stop writing stab them in the neck and use they blood as ink. This is such a good third person book, with very long sentences. Reading it felt like I was watching a movie. Six of Crows is about six kids (ages 16-18 or 19), all with funny names (except for Nina), completing a crazy heist. Kaz, Inej, Matthais, Jesper, and Wylan break into the Ice Court to save a scientist's kid to stop the world from "ending", but plot twist, it was a set up. What I dont like is how it's no happy ending...She made me fall in love with these kids from the trenches (expect Wylan and kind sorta Matthais) just trying make it out for them not to make it out. like who does that??? NIna gets addicted to crack, Kaz and Inej don't end up together, Matthais dies...the only ppl who seems to get a happy ending is Wylan and Jesper. I found all this out from Google. After reading this book i just had a feeling nothing was gonna end well in Crooked Kingdom so I had Google ruin it for me. I love the tension in this book too. It took me a lil min to finish reading this cause every time I would get scared for one of the characters I would stop reading it, but the book was too good to put down. I would recommend, but beware.
This is like nothing I've ever read before. AWYITE is about two mentally divergent people navigating feelings of love. Olivie Blake is such a beautiful writer. The yearning? immaculate. The relationship? mind boggling. The way she switched writing styles like rappers switch they flow? brilliant. At first I didn't think nothing was wrong with Regan but that's just cause she wasn't round her triggers. I still lowkey don't think nothing wrong with her. I do believe her self worth is non existent. She does not love her self enough to feel worthy enough for anything and I blame her lame behind momma. She also allows people to dictate her feelings and situations for her. I feel for her. She is a prime example of not growing up in love. Which then led her to choose people in her life that does not cater a loving environment. Everyone around her contributed to her feeling unworthy. Until she met that nigga Aldo. Oh, how I love Aldo. I could tell sum was wrong with him. He might be on the spectrum, but I think it's a lil bit deeper than that. He needs to have fixations in order to feel worthy or like he has a purpose. I thought they was perfect for each other. But they both allowed outside entities to separate they relationship. They could've made it worked, if they really wanted the relationship. Aldo with his daddy and Regan with that ugly, long neck, manipulative boy. They should've been my friend, I would've been rooting for them. Speaking of Marc no eyebrow, smelling like broccoli, cross-eyed behind...what took her so long to leave him? She knew he offered nothing but sex and manipulation. Why did she allow herself to be his toy for so long? It all goes back to her self worth and her short lip, long back momma. I really did enjoy the depths of they conversations tho. Nothing about them was shallow, from the very first time they met. They were so intelligent and inquisitive. I love people like that. I also loved reading how Aldo described her, comparing her to the facade of buildings or skylines or sum like that. But the way they both described loving each other. Smart people is so cool. They just put sum into perspective like you never could've imagined. Big ups to my girl Olivie tho. She really the mastermind of they brains. She created these intricate characters. I did however stopped reading when Regan and Marc saw each other in a bar, i think, during a New Year Eve party. I just felt something bad was finna happen with her and Aldo. And I hate when a book ends on a bad note or doesn't have the ending I made up in my head.