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The Feels.
I need the full length novel NOW.

* 2019 TALK:
I'm not going to rant anymore around this book. Rereading it was actually more enjoyable than the first time reading it 3 years ago. I must have been in a bad mood cause Tory can actually be very relatable even though she's annoying. She's a true angsty and depressed teen.

WHAT I WILL TALK ABOUT: Is Alice Oseman.
Please please please go read all of Alice's other stories. They are beautiful, wholesome, heartfelt, have great rep of all kinds and depict teens in the most realistic way EVER!
- Please read the (web)comic Heartstopper where two boys (Tory's brother Charlie and his now bf Nick) meet and fall in love (with topics surrounding identity, mental health, eating disorders).
- I Was Born For This depicts the good and the bad of fandom, obsessing over a band, being in a successful band when you have anxiety, and friendship (with a muslim MC and a trans MC + other types of rep).
- Then, of course, you have my fave : Radio Silence. Platonic soulmates dealing with the fear of university, expectations, art, making a webcomic together and friendship. FRIENDSHIP!

* 2016 REVIEW : 2.5 /5
I felt connected to multiple aspects of this story which allowed me to finish this book. However it was very difficult to appreciate a story when the main character and narrator hates everything so much. I really wonder how people around her actually liked her... Also, how can we be interested in the mystery part of the plot of Tory herself isn't?

Maw's paw, I needed time to think about this before writing a review. Altogether, I think I'm pretty satisfied.

What I really appreciated with this third and final book was the whole myth element and world building we got. It was so interesting.

The characters were still bloody brilliant.
There's an unnecessary love triangle that really didn't need to be SO prevalent in this book. And wowdy the amount of explicit sex scenes was over the top (especially when you think about who is writing the story [inside the book AND out of it] and how the lesbian sex was porn worthy). Oh and don't get me started on Jay Kristoff 's fascination for boobs . Or breasts as he likes to say. On every other page.
Although I must say.. Jay Kristoff literally shades himself for a few of these things.. In the book itself.
And yet dispute these annoying things, I couldn't help but absolutely love this. I was entertained all the way through and my heart messed with on repeat.

Romance step aside, cause what moved me the most were Mia's relationship with her Found-dad and her Shadow-cat.
Just know this: This story is about family. And it makes us think it's about blood family but 'byss and blood you realise it's actually more about found family.
So yeah, gentlefriends, I'm touched.

I survived. For most of the book I didn't think I'd make it out alive. I barely did. Soooooo many emotions.
I loved it.

First, I'd like to point out that this book for me was clearly devided into two parts.
The first half basically goes through all that is said in the GR blurb, so even though you'll want to read that blurb (because it really is a beautiful blurb), try not to focus on it too much or you'll be wanting all those things to happen too soon. But believe me when I say that even knowing all those things before starting, it does not take away from the fact that the first part of this book is one of the most beautiful, amazing, heartfelt stories I have ever read.
A story about love, friendship, family, finding your place, growing into your own, belonging, oh... and also wolves. That's a thing. But tbh the most heartfelt parts were to do with the humanity that lives in all of these beautiful characters.

Now, I'm NOT saying that the second half wasn't good. It was veeeery good. Still beautiful.
I was left longing for the characters to get it together though. It also had a very different mood, more sombre, darker. I still loved it, my heart was in pieces but I loved it.

There were a couple of things that bugged me if i'm honest. Mostly the fact that there is this one thing about a couple of the side characters that interests me A LOT but we never get to know about it. I understand that we're seeing it through the MC's POV and he doesn't want to push them into talking about it but I WANT TO KNOOOW. And I think the author has said he wasn't talking about them any time soon. Ugh. My heart will be left longing for answers forever and always (or i could just go read fanfics, i'm sure they exist).
> Ahaha how wrong i was : Ravensong deals exactly with this issue.

All in all, I loved this. Stories that make me feel this many emotions so strongly in one book deserve awards. That's all I'm saying.

I'm now realising how different the pace is beween the book and the movies... But I loved reading how this book went into more depth about the wizarding world AND Hogwarts!

“A home isn’t always the house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with.”

4.5 / 5 stars
I have loved TJ Klune's books for a while now, but this one seems to be on a whole different level. The writing was impressively witty and fun but filled, as always with this author, with heart and emotion.

I dare say this: I bet we could love them even more.
I wish this could be a series of books because i feel like there is still so much to learn about the House in the Ceruluean Sea, and the dysfunctional found-family that lives there.

Is this one everyone's favourite? Cause it's clearly mine (so far).
- The Marauders
- Harry's SASS
- CROOKSHANKS
- Time turniiiin'
- Lupin & Sirius' intro
- The trio's boooond!

And so.. the dark days begin.
I loved all the small things in this book i'd forgotten about : winky, hermione's fight to help house elves, the twins' start in the business world, and most of all just how good and nice Dumbledore actually is in the books.

Thank you to the publishers and net galley for providing an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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This graphic novel went above and beyond my expectations.

It deals with teens navigating through school, trying to make friends and staying true to themselves. But most importantly it teaches us to stand up for what's right, stand up to bullies and see life as it is despite our struggles: worth living.

The characters are deeply relatable and the art is really nice.

I might have cried a little... A couple of times. Or five.