lindseythelibrarian's reviews
516 reviews

Fun story! Glad I read it. It felt pretty standard as far as YA fantasy goes, but I loved the POC and lesbian rep. Very fun! 

I enjoyed this short little snippet. It reminded me of one of Dana's podcasts but without the commercials. I really enjoy Dana's take on how she declutters and found her podcasts and then her book to be something that REALLY clicked with me. While this was fine, I would recommend her book "Decluttering at the Speed of Life" along with her podcast.

I would recommend this for someone who "clicks" with Dana's other work and might have specific questions about specific topics. 

Starting off the year with a book club book! We read this for Middle Grade Book Club and I am glad that we did! 

We start off this book with a brief introduction to our two main characters, Red and Rip, and are then introduced to their new Language Arts teacher, Mr. Acevedo. Mr. Acevedo is fresh out of college and has a lot of thoughts about how to best instruct students--no tests, no test prep, and a whole lot of teamwork. At first, his teaching style was a bit off-putting to how I imagine a 5th-grade Lindsey would have handled her first-day jitters. However, his teaching methods prove successful as the students not only use what they learned to ace a mandated state test, they also gain some fantastic social skills like healthy ways to deal with change, working with difficult individuals, and more. 

I have to say that some of the characterizations, most notably Avery, seemed a bit unrealistic. Someone so offputting to her classmates (or maybe just Rip?) seemed a bit out of pocket for someone who has attended school there her whole life. 

I like how the author integrated some potentially unknown words, idioms, and sayings/proverbs into the book. Red, one of the main characters, is autistic and he has some difficulties understanding certain phrases, and oftentimes an adult or friend will explain it. 

While this was by no means one of my favorite middle-grade novels I have read, I would definitely read the next one in the series. 

I liked this book!

Let me start out by saying that I have not read a lot of Romantic comedies. However, I really like this one! I read a lot of the negative reviews it was completely anticipating hating Shay and feeling like last portion of the book was a downer, but I didn't get that at all. didn't I’m such a sucker for a podcast, and I listen to the spoken audiobook form, I will say I do wish this should have a bit more of the show, and the podcast/radio world itself.  

I actually liked the spicy scenes (they usually make me laugh, make me uncomfortable, or both!) and enjoyed this lighter novel!

What a fantastic end to the trilogy. This one gave us all the answers the first two books built up, and still had some REALLY creepy imagery to boot. Having a teddy arm themselves with a rusty syringe is something I can’t unsee. 

It was also emotional in all the right ways, giving us satisfaction with character growth, dealing with loss, and more. 

Beautifully colored drawings cover this lovely graphic novel. 
Thematically, this book deals with history and how the oppressors rewrite it to fit their narrative and control the people within their regime. 

The authors note at the end speaks beautifully to this. 

I am vacillating between giving this book one and a half stars, and one star.

Read this book if you want: 

This was an interesting read. I don’t really know what to expect. And also, when I picked it up, I didn’t notice the subtitle, I.e. that’s this book is specifically about Joseph Lister. 

 The gruesome parts of this book are compelling, and the parts about Joseph and his methodology, as well as the weather he was with his students were super interesting. I felt like a book meandered a little bit, but it was still enjoyable. 

If you’re into medical history and people trying wacky things, discrediting what it actually works, and more check out the podcast Sawbones. I think the did an episode about this guy! 

This is my first book in the series!

This is definitely a book for younger kids, even though it deals with some intense topics! With that being said, it’s childish but deals with topics, like death and cannibalism in an accessible way, having jokes jokes, and banter between the individual who is telling the story, and the two who are listening. 

Even for a kids book, I found myself really engaged with what was happening. I was mad about the choices. That mean we’re making to endanger their families. Let’s smash the patriarchy!

One thing that I think would’ve made this book a little bit better, even though it was kind of out of scope, would’ve been a slightly more accurate and well rounded portrayal of the Native American tribes. In this book, it talks about how the native Americans did not respect the treaty but, I think it would’ve been more fair to highlight that they were taken of.