allieeeee's reviews
381 reviews

Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

4.0

really wild and so scary at times 😅

Pew by Catherine Lacey

3.75

just okay for me. i liked the dialogue and all the characters were interesting, but overall a little unsatisfying. i think that was the point but still landed a little flat for me 

Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

4.25

this book was an endearing reflection on what it means to be human. i can’t decide if Adina was an alien or not, and i am surprisingly not bothered by that bc it was so much not the point. i loved this one :)

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

really cool and well written book. i loved how you could track charlie’s journey through the way he wrote, how often things were repeated, etc etc. a really cool concept for a book and i really loved charlie as a character. i liked how grey-area the whole book was- intelligence gave charlie so much but also ruined him in a lot of ways. 

definitely gave off “written by a man in in the 60s” at times, but that’s to be expected 

Open Throat by Henry Hoke

3.75

Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

4.0

emotional dad stuff was pretty cliche. but plot was tense and entertaining 

How We Named the Stars by Andrés N. Ordorica

3.75

cute but didn’t love the writing style 

Uranians by Theodore McCombs

4.5

I really enjoyed these short stories. they were quirky and explored a variety of speculative themes. my favorite was Lacuna Heights!

Brutes by Dizz Tate

4.0

this book was edgy without a lot of payoff at the end. i didn’t really get the ending but whatever. i really liked how this was written! i loved the hive mind of the kids and the moms. overall a really enjoyable read 

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.0

heart wrenching and real. my interest wavered a bit in the middle sections, but overall a really powerful read