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Laços de Família by Clarice Lispector
novamente uma tentativa frustrada. vou simplesmente aceitar que eu não gosto de clarice lispector e não consigo ler nada dela. simples.
Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
1.0
what the fuck was that???
edit: i read this 2 days ago and i still don’t know how to properly put into words how much i disliked this book.
it’s a known fact i don’t like colleen hoover books, although i remember having read 1 (maybe 2) of her books and liking the writing, but this year i made a friend who likes her stories and wanted to buddy read one of the books with me. it’d been years since i read one of her books (ugly love, ew) so i said yes. BIG mistake.
usually i stick to what i know i like and don’t really try new genres of books because i know what works for me. fantasy? great! science fiction? too much. and hopeless is in too categories i don’t really like: romance and new adult.
maybe reading this (if you care) you’re thinking “so why did you???” and there are two answers for that:
1) my friend asked and i wanted to read something she liked
2) never say never. i don’t usually like NA or romance but who knows? maybe some day i will. maybe some day i’ll find an awesome book that falls into that category. and even though this is very unlikely, i’m not going to discard the possibility.
that being said, let’s talk about the book.
the plot is weak and the more you get into the book, the worse it gets and the more disgusting the things happening are if you take a second to think about it. the things that later on was supposed to be a “big reveal” and even “plot twists” were so obvious that it felt stupid and we, as readers, don’t actually feel surprised. at least i didn’t and my friend who actually likes the book also didn’t.
oh, and suicide and bullying are used as plot devices. so nice, huh?
the characters are weird and just bad overall.
sky, the protagonist, was written to be a different type of “not like other girls” and more relatable but every. single. time. she was talking about how she *wasn’t a slut*. ok girl, we get it, now please talk about something else.
her traumas were something that could’ve been handled well and started important conversations in the book about mental health, but noooo. of course not.
colleen hoover uses the abuse sky suffered and the lasting affects of them in her life to bring the mc and her love interest closer together; her trauma is used to make holder more dreamy and a hero. there is not even an attempt to take her to therapy! more than that: it was meant to be a plot twist. so so SO disgusting. mental illness, sexual assault or any other kind of trauma should NEVER be used as plot twist, but this is exactly what happened.
the last thing about sky’s character is that there isn’t any development. she finds out many things about her past and why she is the she is but in the end of the book she is the *same* person she was at the beginning. and that makes no sense.
holder holder holder... he was, for a lack of better word, hot garbage. colleen hoover must’ve been insane if she thought dean holder was a good love interest because what. the. fuck.
we meet him at the supermarket were both him and sky are paying for the food. he then proceeds to stare at her and sky is obviously weirded out by this. he then proceeds to FOLLOW SKY BACK TO HER CAR, DEMANDS HER NAME, which she tells and to prove that’s really her name (because i guess she owes him that???? what?!), she shows holder her driving license.
so many red flags, this is RIDICULOUS. i don’t know what coho problem is but she is a woman like me and i highly doubt that she would consider this normal in a real life situation. more than than, i doubt she would be intrigued and *wanting to kiss this stranger*, like sky is, if this happened to her. what. the fuck.
besides a total creep holder has a bizarre behavior. as we sadly continue to read this book, we realize, by sky flashbacks, that he not only already knew her as a kid but also was somewhat obsessed with her. what???
but obviously he can’t be a total creep and still be the love interest so what does hoover do? she makes him “so romantic” by inventing a word that more than “i care about you” and less than “i love you”: i live you. yeah, you read this right.
why is this dreamy? who knows.
i’m not the best to talk about writing since i’m not native english speaker, but given that i liked colleen hoovers writing before, this was disappointing. it felt flat and just not right.
just one more thing: people that have traumas don’t all suffer from repressed memories and this memories surely aren’t revealed at the exactly right moment. people with bipolar disorder are not crazy and they don’t have countless personalities that exist completely separated and are there only to sabotage the other.
this book was awful, irresponsible and offensive. i won’t be reading coho books for a very long time.
edit: i read this 2 days ago and i still don’t know how to properly put into words how much i disliked this book.
it’s a known fact i don’t like colleen hoover books, although i remember having read 1 (maybe 2) of her books and liking the writing, but this year i made a friend who likes her stories and wanted to buddy read one of the books with me. it’d been years since i read one of her books (ugly love, ew) so i said yes. BIG mistake.
usually i stick to what i know i like and don’t really try new genres of books because i know what works for me. fantasy? great! science fiction? too much. and hopeless is in too categories i don’t really like: romance and new adult.
maybe reading this (if you care) you’re thinking “so why did you???” and there are two answers for that:
1) my friend asked and i wanted to read something she liked
2) never say never. i don’t usually like NA or romance but who knows? maybe some day i will. maybe some day i’ll find an awesome book that falls into that category. and even though this is very unlikely, i’m not going to discard the possibility.
that being said, let’s talk about the book.
the plot is weak and the more you get into the book, the worse it gets and the more disgusting the things happening are if you take a second to think about it. the things that later on was supposed to be a “big reveal” and even “plot twists” were so obvious that it felt stupid and we, as readers, don’t actually feel surprised. at least i didn’t and my friend who actually likes the book also didn’t.
oh, and suicide and bullying are used as plot devices. so nice, huh?
the characters are weird and just bad overall.
sky, the protagonist, was written to be a different type of “not like other girls” and more relatable but every. single. time. she was talking about how she *wasn’t a slut*. ok girl, we get it, now please talk about something else.
her traumas were something that could’ve been handled well and started important conversations in the book about mental health, but noooo. of course not.
colleen hoover uses the abuse sky suffered and the lasting affects of them in her life to bring the mc and her love interest closer together; her trauma is used to make holder more dreamy and a hero. there is not even an attempt to take her to therapy! more than that: it was meant to be a plot twist. so so SO disgusting. mental illness, sexual assault or any other kind of trauma should NEVER be used as plot twist, but this is exactly what happened.
the last thing about sky’s character is that there isn’t any development. she finds out many things about her past and why she is the she is but in the end of the book she is the *same* person she was at the beginning. and that makes no sense.
holder holder holder... he was, for a lack of better word, hot garbage. colleen hoover must’ve been insane if she thought dean holder was a good love interest because what. the. fuck.
we meet him at the supermarket were both him and sky are paying for the food. he then proceeds to stare at her and sky is obviously weirded out by this. he then proceeds to FOLLOW SKY BACK TO HER CAR, DEMANDS HER NAME, which she tells and to prove that’s really her name (because i guess she owes him that???? what?!), she shows holder her driving license.
so many red flags, this is RIDICULOUS. i don’t know what coho problem is but she is a woman like me and i highly doubt that she would consider this normal in a real life situation. more than than, i doubt she would be intrigued and *wanting to kiss this stranger*, like sky is, if this happened to her. what. the fuck.
besides a total creep holder has a bizarre behavior. as we sadly continue to read this book, we realize, by sky flashbacks, that he not only already knew her as a kid but also was somewhat obsessed with her. what???
but obviously he can’t be a total creep and still be the love interest so what does hoover do? she makes him “so romantic” by inventing a word that more than “i care about you” and less than “i love you”: i live you. yeah, you read this right.
why is this dreamy? who knows.
i’m not the best to talk about writing since i’m not native english speaker, but given that i liked colleen hoovers writing before, this was disappointing. it felt flat and just not right.
just one more thing: people that have traumas don’t all suffer from repressed memories and this memories surely aren’t revealed at the exactly right moment. people with bipolar disorder are not crazy and they don’t have countless personalities that exist completely separated and are there only to sabotage the other.
this book was awful, irresponsible and offensive. i won’t be reading coho books for a very long time.
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
i hate jace.
clary is ok. i kinda like her but she isn’t great.
alec is a baby.
isabelle is cool.
i hate simon.
i love magnus for some reason.
i love luke.
4.0
i hate jace.
clary is ok. i kinda like her but she isn’t great.
alec is a baby.
isabelle is cool.
i hate simon.
i love magnus for some reason.
i love luke.
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
4.0
i am SO angry. yes, this book is better than the first but the ending? the way clary acts? what jace does???? bro wtf
first: malec is just 😍 i just love the little things about alec and magnus, even though it appears in short moments, its great
second: really? in the beginning of the epilogue clary is acting like everything is still normal with her and simon and they are still together. really????? she admits she likes jace more than she should and that she wishes she could love simon like that in the middle of the book but then she is kissing simon in the end??? girl, are stupid?! and more than that: she isn’t nice. she continues in a romantic relationship with simon knowing she doesn’t love him. if simon hadn’t been the smart one and called it off, she would be not only making herslef suffer, but making him suffer and would have prevented simon from finding someone that he could love and that could love him back. clary, not nice. at all.
third: again, is she stupid? i thought i would be mad at jace in the end after he says he was going to stop being egoistic and “forcing his feelings on her” and was going to be just a brother to her. but then i realized that even tough this characters are really really stupid and doesn’t seem to understand and interpret emotions and actions from others (its not that hard, honestly), jace is right. he doesn’t seem to get that she loves him, but he is doing something nice and selfless, so i agree. and now i think i like him (crazy, right?).
and i know the mortal instruments is inspired on harry potter and clary is supposed to be ginny SO WHERE IS GINNYS COURAGE? ginny says what she thinks, goes for what she wants. clary just... stands there. and i get she is thrown off after he says that, but if she had said what she wanted, i REALLY doubt jace wouldn’t kiss her like he was dying. so again: she. is. stupid.
she goes on and on to luke that he should have told her mother he loved and blablabla but she doesn’t do the same??? clary please just stfu
fourth: although i am pretty mad at her, her power (its kind of a power, right?) is so cool!!! i already knew she could do it, but i didn’t remember the little things or how she did it first to test on alecs arm and he almost told his parents about magnus (so close!)
i am complaining a lot BUT its only because i’m really invested on the story and the characters. and i honestly finished this book 10 minutes ago, so my feelings are all over the place now. i think the way things are going, i will give one of the tmi books 5 stars! yay!
first: malec is just 😍 i just love the little things about alec and magnus, even though it appears in short moments, its great
second: really? in the beginning of the epilogue clary is acting like everything is still normal with her and simon and they are still together. really????? she admits she likes jace more than she should and that she wishes she could love simon like that in the middle of the book but then she is kissing simon in the end??? girl, are stupid?! and more than that: she isn’t nice. she continues in a romantic relationship with simon knowing she doesn’t love him. if simon hadn’t been the smart one and called it off, she would be not only making herslef suffer, but making him suffer and would have prevented simon from finding someone that he could love and that could love him back. clary, not nice. at all.
third: again, is she stupid? i thought i would be mad at jace in the end after he says he was going to stop being egoistic and “forcing his feelings on her” and was going to be just a brother to her. but then i realized that even tough this characters are really really stupid and doesn’t seem to understand and interpret emotions and actions from others (its not that hard, honestly), jace is right. he doesn’t seem to get that she loves him, but he is doing something nice and selfless, so i agree. and now i think i like him (crazy, right?).
and i know the mortal instruments is inspired on harry potter and clary is supposed to be ginny SO WHERE IS GINNYS COURAGE? ginny says what she thinks, goes for what she wants. clary just... stands there. and i get she is thrown off after he says that, but if she had said what she wanted, i REALLY doubt jace wouldn’t kiss her like he was dying. so again: she. is. stupid.
she goes on and on to luke that he should have told her mother he loved and blablabla but she doesn’t do the same??? clary please just stfu
fourth: although i am pretty mad at her, her power (its kind of a power, right?) is so cool!!! i already knew she could do it, but i didn’t remember the little things or how she did it first to test on alecs arm and he almost told his parents about magnus (so close!)
i am complaining a lot BUT its only because i’m really invested on the story and the characters. and i honestly finished this book 10 minutes ago, so my feelings are all over the place now. i think the way things are going, i will give one of the tmi books 5 stars! yay!