Check out my original review of Overcoming Anxiety & Depression by Lydia Francis on Goodreads here.
Francis has an easy to understand writing style that makes reading this guide easy for anybody who decides to pick it up and give it a read. I am already very educated on these topics, as I suffer from both anxiety as well as depression myself, but I was still able to learn something from this guide. It didn't felt like I was reading it just to read it, I was reading it to get something out of it, which I ultimately did.
I will carry with me the information Francis has taught me through this guide and I will also carry with me some of the tips, tricks, ideas, etc. Francis provides for overcoming anxiety and depression. My only complaint is that some areas felt a bit glossed over and a think spending a bit more time lengthening this guide up to give it some more "meat" in the areas it lacked it would have been very beneficial, to say the least, which is why I didn't give this book five stars and bumped it down by half a star instead. It wasn't a huge issue, but enough to deter me away from saying it was amazing.
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If you are interested in viewing my original review on Goodreads of P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2) by Jenny Han, click here.
Enough of that, let's move on to my actual review, shall we? Ahhh, Mr. Peter Kavinsky.
In the first book, my thoughts on Peter were very clear: he's a complete d*ck and that's literally it, but he was more tolerable in this one, which I don't understand considering he has the exact personality in both of them. I know, confusing. I'm just as confused as you are, trust me. Keeping the above in mind, he pissed me off sometimes. For example, (view spoiler) like c'mon Kavinsky. I would say you're better than that, but, are you really? The first time he wanted Lara Jean back it was sweet, for lack of a better word, but it's becoming so redundant now, I have a hard time believing that anybody in their right mind would have 98 falling outs with the same person in less than 365 days but, then again, this is Peter Kavinsky we're talking about here, the top of the school. Every girl wants him and only him just for herself, so I guess Lara Jean wants her title of girlfriend to the high power jock that rules Adler High (or whatever the name of the school is, I honestly forgot, I'm probably 13 letters off, but oh well. I think that's the name of the school in the movie, but I'm too lazy to spend two minutes to pull up the movie on Netflix [which I already have opened, for the record] or a quick Google search and a little bit of stalking to figure out because I really couldn't care less, although that's probably hard to believe considering I wrote a paragraph regarding what the f*ck is the name of the school in TATBILB?!??!11/>!1$2 but ANYWAY, moving on now) to reign for as long as she possiblycan have it for. I don't blame her, that's high school for you. The "love triangle" sh*t was unnecessary, for lack of better words because Lara Jean and Peter always come back to each other, falling in love for the million and oneth time <33333333 Moving on from Peter Kavinsky (okay, maybe not, butconsidering I just gave him like 12 paragraphs, I think its time I get over him and move on, something Lara Jean has yet to do, for the record ;) I thought the other characters were... Meh. Kitty is still 12/10 the best character in this series, Chris was... Chris, there simply isn't any other way to put it, Gen was a b*tch, as expected, Lara Jean was... Lara Jean, there also isn't any other way to describe Lara Jean besides Lara Jean, and Margot was chill. I am quite fond of Stormy though, I would kill to have a relative as bad*ss as her, not gonna lie. The writing in the first book was one of my favorite things about it, but it was trashy in this one. Just complete, utter trash. I couldn't stand how repetitive and choppy and purely annoying it was. It made it IMPOSSIBLE to read at times. The pacing in this one sucked, but I mean, it was also disgusting in the first one, so what was I expecting? Everything either A.) went by way too fast or B.) was dragged out for way too long. There was no in between, no healthy balance of any kind. It also bothered me that the "cliffhangers" in the first book were all resolved within ten pages of this novel. This review is coming to a very abrupt ending, but I don't know what else to say. To be honest, I regret starting this series, not going to lie. While its intriguing, I have a lot of problems with it and a majority of it annoys me, for lack of better words. I'm still gonna start the third book right after finish this review and probably be done with that one by midnight, but who's surprised? Not me, that's for sure. REVIEW: To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1) by Jenny Han12/27/2018 If you are interested in viewing my original review on Goodreads for To All The Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1) by Jenny Han, click here.
Alright, enough of my stupid, pointless ranting, let's get onto the actual review, it's about damn time I did so:
The big thing about this book that sticks out to me is the fact that there is an Asian-American female main character as I rarely see novels with diverse MCs like Lara Jean. Nice job there, Jenny Han (that sounded extremely sarcastic, I promise it wasn't). The characters were... fine. I don't know, some of them were heart-wrenching characters I wasn't ever going to forget *cough* Lara Jean Covey *cough*, but other characters just flat out pissed me off, to keep it short, simple, and sweet *cough* Gen *cough*. Other characters *cough* John Ambrose McClaren *cough* deserve the entire world and more, I stan one (1) man. I will say, however, I wasn't fond of Peter in the book, but movie Peter can get it, to be honest. He can still be a d*ck at times in the movie, but I mean, Peter is solely a d*ck in the book, so it's progress, I guess. On the contrary, Josh was one of my favorite characters in the book, but one of my least favorite characters in the movie while Peter was the other way around -- one of my least favorite characters in the book, but one of my favorite characters in the movie. Straying away from the characters, I thoroughly enjoyed Han's writing style and I thought the inclusion of the recipes in the back of the book was the perfect touch. I am definitely interested in trying them out sometime, I'll have to get around to that someday I'm free & have the ingredients on hand. Maybe I should dedicate a day to baking over my break, I'm not sure yet. The pacing in this book felt so s l o w and dragged out at times, but it was still v e r y predictable nonetheless and I HATE books that are easy to predict because then there isn't any mystery or suspense aspect. I've read better YA contemporary romance, but I've also read worse. This one falls somewhere in the middle for me. I really hope the next one sticks with me more than this one did, but I have a feeling I'm gonna be disappointed, to be honest. |
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