This is the first time that I read a book that was written in verse style. I didn't know that was actually a thing. I'm not sure that I enjoyed that aspect of it. It reminded me of someone who was sending me text messages line by line, rapid fire, instead of just typing everything they wanted to say out the one go. I did enjoy the story. I wish that the creature was more prevalent and that the story between Maris and the creature took more of a center stage. As it is most of the book is how much we dislike the second girl. So, it's a fast read and a good story. Because it's written in this verse style it's not actually as long as it says it is.

It was a good book, I enjoyed reading it. However I would not recommend it for readers who do not like long-page books.

Eh bonus book. Was okay gave some more detail on characters

Good so far on chapter 8

Really enjoyed this small town mystery. Loved all the gardening references and the characters were enjoyable as well. Nice summer read.

As far as 40k books go, Dan Abnett tends to be the best one to write them. He knows how to do an ensemble cast of likeable characters, despite the self-parody levels of grim dark the setting demands. It's a bit too long, but a good intro to the also too long Horus Heresy series. Does a good job building up the eventual fall of Horus, setting up the 10 thousands plus years of war to follow. Insert obligatory "F*** you, Erebus". I can't recommend reading the entire 40-some book series of the Horus Heresy, however, the first three are a good backstory to the 40k setting.

The story behind this book is gripping, and it has an important message that it communicates. However, it didn't quite hit for me. I think that this book has a lot or common faults of early publications and works; while the story is good, it's executed a little clumsily. There are typos and editing errors that while not disorienting, are distracting. Characters occasionally end up in positions that they shouldn't spatially be able to be in. These, however, are small and forgivable mistakes. The more glaring issues to me lie in the writing of the villains. Zeus and Hermes are written with very little difference between them in moments of conflict. Their individual personalities shine through in some quieter moments, but when they are doing bad things they are reduced to cackling rapists. As characters coming from very different backgrounds with different motivations, that was really disappointing. I wanted to feel their personalities come through in every moment and so often they were reduced to smirking assholes. Finally, I personally didn't care for the romance. It was not overbearing in its relevance, but it made me cringe at the end. I understand that the characters involved would have some very intense feelings for each other, but chaste kisses and hugs does not feel like the way to express those feelings. However, maybe that romance evolves in an interesting way in later books. The writing style of this book feels very YA; very exposition heavy. It does not trust the reader to come to their own conclusion, and it often prefers to tell whether than show, especially when establishing the history of the nymphs. A tragically lost opportunity when showing would have been easy, given the story beats. Finally, I have a bone to pick with the wording of the content warning. This book is all about sexual assault and how victims move on from it. The warning says that "each instance is not graphic." What this is meant to say is the sexual aspect of the assault is not graphic. But the non-sexual violence of each assault is very graphic. The warning is misleading and the detail and brutality of the assault scenes caught me off guard. I thought they were absolutely vital to the story and respectfully written, but to call them not graphic is dangerously misleading.

I love lord of the rings!!!!!!!!

It was good

It was great! Our main character (Rafe Katchadorian), is met by a guy who's name is Sid. He also has a fake substitute named Mr. Mann who is actually a long lost rock god named Niki Blister.