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Atheists Who Kneel and Pray by Tarryn Fisher
4.0
***This review contains spoilers***
Thanks for the emotional rollercoaster and some cute, thoughtful and noteworthy quotes, but I'm giving it one less star from a perfect score because of how things wrapped up between the characters. I think I'm being generous here, you guys — it's only one star away, considering how huge story resolutions are for me. But like I said: emotional rollercoaster and beautiful quotes all through.
I feel as if Tarryn Fisher suddenly felt a whip of knot in the stomach and had to use the bathroom immediately amidst writing the last few chapters. I would have made a pass that David DID actually date (and was engaged with!) Petra after Yara left him. But can we talk about the fact that this act only confirmed Yara's insecurities true in the first place? And that this was forgotten and forgiven instantly as they kissed and made up? I just can't buy it. And the issue with her mother. After years of resentment — which led to Yara constantly going from one place to another, and after she'd received a call about her mother in critical condition and was about to kick the bucket — all the grudge she'd been carrying for so many years had suddenly gone into thin air? I wish Tarryn Fisher had worked on this better than she did. This is only my first book of hers, but I knew there has to be a way to end everything without having to drop it just like that.
I can understand why Yara wouldn't seem so appealing as a lead character. She's basically a person one step away from a nervous breakdown or panick attack or whatever, if it's not for her unrelenting resilience from things that made her weak and unstable. She is the kind of person who can hide under a mask, and when the time comes (she knew when perfectly well, too), she'd run away like nothing happened. She is a coward. She thought it was brave that she can run away and start over everytime, and she finds herself addicted to doing it. But truly she is just a coward. She is myriad of things. She's insecure and charismatic at the same time. She is all over the place, who happened to have have finished uni decently. It's not completely agreeable, but somehow I can tolerate that kind of behavior. I should know, because I'm well accustomed to almost all kinds of crazy.
David, on the other hand, is all kind of saints wrapped in a beautiful face, shape and body of a man. David knew and understood who exactly Yara was, but Yara kept refusing this idea. She never trusted him on this one thing. David is not perfect either. I'd like to think he is, but he's not. And the kind of person David is tamed the wild gypsy in Yara. This freaked her out. They have the perfect balance of each other. Like a yin-yang. Yara as his muse, David her home. I like the idea Tarryn made out of these two characters.
Overall, Atheists Who Kneel And Pray is an easy, quick and hard-to-put-down read. Tarryn Fisher was able to pull it through with a distinct air of maturity, not sounding juvenile no matter the amount of angst throughout the book. It's a good story depicting raw and passionate contemporary love affair. I'm glad I read this, after all.
Thanks for the emotional rollercoaster and some cute, thoughtful and noteworthy quotes, but I'm giving it one less star from a perfect score because of how things wrapped up between the characters. I think I'm being generous here, you guys — it's only one star away, considering how huge story resolutions are for me. But like I said: emotional rollercoaster and beautiful quotes all through.
I feel as if Tarryn Fisher suddenly felt a whip of knot in the stomach and had to use the bathroom immediately amidst writing the last few chapters. I would have made a pass that David DID actually date (and was engaged with!) Petra after Yara left him. But can we talk about the fact that this act only confirmed Yara's insecurities true in the first place? And that this was forgotten and forgiven instantly as they kissed and made up? I just can't buy it. And the issue with her mother. After years of resentment — which led to Yara constantly going from one place to another, and after she'd received a call about her mother in critical condition and was about to kick the bucket — all the grudge she'd been carrying for so many years had suddenly gone into thin air? I wish Tarryn Fisher had worked on this better than she did. This is only my first book of hers, but I knew there has to be a way to end everything without having to drop it just like that.
I can understand why Yara wouldn't seem so appealing as a lead character. She's basically a person one step away from a nervous breakdown or panick attack or whatever, if it's not for her unrelenting resilience from things that made her weak and unstable. She is the kind of person who can hide under a mask, and when the time comes (she knew when perfectly well, too), she'd run away like nothing happened. She is a coward. She thought it was brave that she can run away and start over everytime, and she finds herself addicted to doing it. But truly she is just a coward. She is myriad of things. She's insecure and charismatic at the same time. She is all over the place, who happened to have have finished uni decently. It's not completely agreeable, but somehow I can tolerate that kind of behavior. I should know, because I'm well accustomed to almost all kinds of crazy.
David, on the other hand, is all kind of saints wrapped in a beautiful face, shape and body of a man. David knew and understood who exactly Yara was, but Yara kept refusing this idea. She never trusted him on this one thing. David is not perfect either. I'd like to think he is, but he's not. And the kind of person David is tamed the wild gypsy in Yara. This freaked her out. They have the perfect balance of each other. Like a yin-yang. Yara as his muse, David her home. I like the idea Tarryn made out of these two characters.
Overall, Atheists Who Kneel And Pray is an easy, quick and hard-to-put-down read. Tarryn Fisher was able to pull it through with a distinct air of maturity, not sounding juvenile no matter the amount of angst throughout the book. It's a good story depicting raw and passionate contemporary love affair. I'm glad I read this, after all.
Misery by Stephen King
5.0
I've only read two of SK's works: one Under The Dome, the other Hearts in Atlantis. The latter bored me a quarter before I finish it, so it sits still in my DNF. I thought the former was brilliant. But Misery- oh lord. The name Annie will never be the same to my ears like it did before.
The book was short, easy to read, the plot isn't complicated at all. All that Paul Sheldon has to do is escape his demented captor, Annie Wilkes, before she could finish them both.
The text was so gruesome and vivid, I was deliriously shaking my head, whispering 'no, no, no' almost the entire time reading it. But there he was: Stephen King- having fun and making a hell lot of money out of his sick, twisted and brilliant imagination. I couldn't appreciate him more.
The book was short, easy to read, the plot isn't complicated at all. All that Paul Sheldon has to do is escape his demented captor, Annie Wilkes, before she could finish them both.
The text was so gruesome and vivid, I was deliriously shaking my head, whispering 'no, no, no' almost the entire time reading it. But there he was: Stephen King- having fun and making a hell lot of money out of his sick, twisted and brilliant imagination. I couldn't appreciate him more.