I really really hated this book. The writing style was simple, the monique part was unnecessary and all the characters felt flat to me. But that was all fine by me. The thing i hated the most was the representation of PoC. Evelyn was essentially a white woman so why the need to make her latina if it did not impact the story whatsoever. Only for her to remember at the end that she speaks spanish. I thought that was so stupid. If she's white passing fine she wouldn't experience rasism herself but she should have been more aware of it. Or at least struggle with her identity internally or something. I would have liked it more if she would have just been a white woman. She's compared to mostly white actresses aswell like judy garland and elizabeth taylor.

I will never be able to read or hear the name Henry Winkler without mentally following up with … covered with bees!

Beware of pity- Stefan Zweig. 🙂

This is a good and fair review. I'd be tempted to score children of ruin slightly lower, but I still think it is a good book. Having read them a while ago, Time has really stuck in my mind and Ive recommended it to several people. Ruin, on the other hand, has not (which your review has helpfully recapped for me!).

That being said, I'd add another reason to still read children of ruin. Children of Memory (the third book) is excellent and more on par with the first book. Ruin gives some insight into it, but is not strictly speaking necessary to understand Memory. But I'd certainly stick with them to read the whole trilogy. Memory also departs a bit from the structure of the first two books, which are both quite similar. It provides a nice refreshing take on the overall theme of the series.

Question about The boy on the bridge by Carey: does the boy meet Melanie or any of the children from The girl with all the gifts in the book?

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Your opinion is valid. I haven’t seen the show since it came out, so perhaps your memory is serving you better. Having failed to make a dent in the book, I found the series good enough, but still not great.

I loved ACOTAR. At the moment i read ToG and i know it has many flaws but its so good

Right? It's ok to enjoy things.

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Then the scandal it caused must have been bigger than I expected. I was lucky enough to put my hands on an antology that contained both The mound and The loved dead, but it was in Spanish.

https://www.casadellibro.com/libro-el-museo-de-los-horrores/9788476407547/155642

I've heard of The Mound, but I have never heard of The Loved Dead, it's not in any of the six Lovecraft books I own and barely appears in websites of his bibliography.

I just read The Diary of Anne Frank and there was no mention of a secret annex or WW2, which is what I was interested in. Did I get the wrong version or something?

John Grisham. I call it a guilty pleasure because I don’t really think the books are great, but I do enjoy reading them because they’re suspenseful. I’m often disappointed with the endings though and when I finish them I feel I should have read something better. I think if it the same way as getting drunk, I don’t feel good afterwards but I still like doing it

Two lesser known ones:

The Loved Dead: A confession from a sexual deviant, who feels his capture is inminent. He recaps the origins of his obsession with the dead as well as the consequences it had on his life.

This one is a rarity because Lovecraft showed little interest for sensuality in his writing. I'm also told it caused quite the controversy when it was published in Weird Tales.

The mound: The complete version of this one didn't appear until 1989, and it could be considered a short novel on its own right. Apparently Lovecraft was hired as a ghostwriter with the instructions to write about a mound in the west haunted by a headless ghost. Lovecraft used this only a bookend, making the mound the entrance to a subterranean civilization. It's little known, but it's likely my favorite Lovecraft story.

I’ve been thinking about trying it again. I got a copy from the library right after it came out, but at page 16 there was a binding error and it shifted to a multigenerational family saga. Hilarious but disappointing.

Space oddessy, space fiction or non-fiction, historical, dark ages, western adventure, survival, biographies, supernatural, mysteries. I love all genres.

I love that you described it as an incredibly thought out book, in the context of your own opinion that that book in particular wasn't obssessively addictive. let me say, first, good to know you are getting back from that post college burn out, however may it have affected you, hope you are doing good... second, for me, after college, i feel no book is obsessively addictive, even if I am loving them. makes it a bit hard to finish them eheh but I may partially understand.

loved this book. I completely agree with you about Harry. He balanced things out and was a constant in her life.

Don't worry about whether or not what you enjoy reading is a literary masterpiece.

If a book makes you sob, like this one did, or if it stays with you, as this one did, it is a masterful in its own right.

Books reach people in different ways. That is the beauty of reading.

As far as books go I have no guilty pleasures. They all pretty much bring me pleasure equally through the joy of reading. But my shoe fetish now that's my guilty pleasure

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100% this, it was given such a high praise that when I was reading it I was wondering if I picked up the wrong novel. I understand including her background to give context to who she is and how she came about helping to solve the crime, but I felt like it was 90% about her and 10% about the crime and victims. I’m pretty sure I finished it but I think I dissociated as I was reading it because I can’t remember, but I believe it’s the same all throughout.

Edit: she didn’t help solve the crime, my bad. Obviously it wasn’t memorable and more teeth pulling since I can’t remember too much of it

>but the show was quite good

I had the exact opposite reaction. I didn't read the book, but from what OP is saying, the tone of the book seems to match the HBO miniseries--an almost endless amount of everyone talking about how awesome Michelle was and how "then we realized" over and over and over again, without focusing enough on everything else--details of the case, victims, police, suspects, etc.

I was expecting a documentary about the serial killer, but it's actually a documentary about Michelle.

I was surprised at how much I didn't like it. HBO is generally known for its high quality, but this got past the editors.

There is an absolutely amazing Podcast call “Lovecraft Investigations” based on Shadow over Innsmouth.

If u don't know of it then for all intents and purposes it doesn't. There can always be different versions of something similar even if it does.