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emily_hartleyy's reviews
20 reviews
The Republic by Plato
4.0
I love philosophy. I would recommend it as a must read to anyone that loves the socratic method or engaging with the ideas of early thinkers. The only drawback is the way in which it is written/structured. It's a huge dialogue following Socrates and others and there are very few breaks. This makes it difficult to find a good place to stop as the dialogue between individuals regularly escalates/evolves with ideas..
The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe
2.0
This is a biased review. I personally only enjoyed about 30 pages out of the 356 that I read. It's partially my own fault because it's obvious that this book is aimed at a younger audience (I'm 22F). The main character is likable but also irritating in a bizarre way. I'm aware that the book is called "The girls I'VE been" and not "The girls Wes, Iris, lee and me have been." but there no development of characters beyond their relationships being explained. The main character doesn't really develop at all throughout the entire book. She still feels like the same girl from the beginning to the end of the book.
Playground by Aron Beauregard
3.0
Not entirely sure why tiktok had this down as the scariest horror. It's more gross and disturbing than anything else.
It's difficult to decide if this is a good story or if the author's gross choices trick you into thinking it's a good splatterpunk book. There's an overuse of alliteration that's hard to ignore once you notice it. I haven't quite finished the book (I have 100 pages left) so I'm struggling to make my mind up. So far overall, I would say the story is an interesting concept, but with all the violence and gore I would have preferred a different set of characters. Maybe a completely different setting.
One thing the author did well was create a villain easy to hate with no redeemable qualities. Even without the gross sexual obsession she had with her mum, she was still unlikable. So that but with the shit could have been left out of the story in my opinion.
It's difficult to decide if this is a good story or if the author's gross choices trick you into thinking it's a good splatterpunk book. There's an overuse of alliteration that's hard to ignore once you notice it. I haven't quite finished the book (I have 100 pages left) so I'm struggling to make my mind up. So far overall, I would say the story is an interesting concept, but with all the violence and gore I would have preferred a different set of characters. Maybe a completely different setting.
One thing the author did well was create a villain easy to hate with no redeemable qualities. Even without the gross sexual obsession she had with her mum, she was still unlikable. So that but with the shit could have been left out of the story in my opinion.