Aw sorry to hear that you don't love 1984. I personally LOVE the ending for it because the whole book is broken up into three parts and each of the three parts follow the three methods that O'Brien talks about towards the end about re-education. (SPOLERS for anyone who has read the ending) I know the ending itself, the very last couple of pages, feels abrupt and odd, but it shows how Winston has completely stopped thinking individually and he now lives for Big Brother. Once his love for Big Brother becomes strong he will be killed (he is told this while being tortured) it is implied that as he looks up at the BB poster, he is shot in the head and the final stage is complete: the complete desire and love for Big Brother has been fulfilled. I'm a huge fan of the novel and I had a lot of great discussions while reading it as a class and since reading it I've written several papers on it. It's one of my favorite novels, but I also get that it may not be for everyone because Orwell has a very simple writing style and the middle lags a bit due to Winston and Julia's relationship.
I've read 1984 and what I really loved about it is that post WWII George Orwell thinks about the horrors the future might hold and considering how our lives look like today, I'd say he wasn't that far off. And that is frightening.
In many ways, 1984 defined the genre (though Orwell borrowed much of the plot from Zamyatin's We). If you read all the contemporary dystopias first, it may be harder to appreciate, because basically you've read multiple versions of 1984 - retellings of this story, and adapted to our own current issues, obsessions and storytelling techniques. I love the ending, btw - I think it's one of the novel's strongest points, because with one sentence, it takes away all hope and leaves you with nothing but despair. Orwell is not messing around - this is a complete dystopia. Anyway - it's one of my fav novels, though I prefer Brave New World, because it contains elements of humor.
A lot of people seem to disagree but it really felt like she was "only" a badass female and that's it. During the first book she reminded me a lot of Vin from Mistborn and by the last book, you can see how different their growth is. Vin is so much more complex than Lila!
BookswithEmilyFox I agree 100%. Vin became more complex with each book. She was a 'bad ass' but more. Lila fell flat for me. There were moments I thought it could change but then she would just fall right back into 'tough as nails' even when it didn't work or make sense for the character. But I do love V Schwab's writing.
I definitely like V E Schwab as a writer! I was just disappointed since I like Lila's character in the first 2 books but not in the third. Like you said, she was constantly just seen as a "tough as nails". Heck everyone is reacting like I bashed the book but 4 stars is really good for me (my average is low 3 this year so far!) haha
If you’re more familiar with modern dystopian literature, I can see how 1984 might not be what you were expecting. Modern stuff tends to start with a dystopian society, but by the end of the work or series, that society has been overthrown. Older dystopian works tend to be much bleaker and far more blatantly political. I personally love early dystopian lit - Erehwon by Samuel Butler; The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope; Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Even Utopia by Thomas More raises questions about the society it describes.
I'm so excited to read The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet! Reading more this year let me discover that I absolutely love character driven stories and I need to pick more of them up
I'm really surprised you like The Kiss Of Deception series. You should check out Between Shades of Grey or Salt To the Sea both are by the same Author she is a historical fiction writer and is amazing.
I love love love that you are reading all different genres! Makes me force myself to do the same this year as I only like to stick to my favourite genres !
Agree with your assessment of the new V.E. Shwab book... I am mid-book right now and I'm pretty dissapointed...honestly, struggling to get through it. It's constant action without any points of calm to balance it out. And not enough character development..
I am getting Brain on fire from the library so intrigued by that one. I also can't wait to read conjuring of light! Oh and I forgot to tell you with Lab Girl which I absolutely love, take your time. Its very detailed but beautifully written. Finding good non fiction can be hard sometimes.
Ok, I know you mentioned Dr. House, so I'm going to throw out a recommendation that I think you'd enjoy if you like Bones. "Working Stiff" by Judy Melinek is such an interesting nonfiction read. It follows Judy, a medical examiner in NY, as well as during her time working through the 9/11 aftermath. It may sound weird, but it's full of interesting stories, and for a nonfiction, it's super entertaining.
I LOVE movies about people that die and come back so I'm definitely checking out The First Fifteen Lives book. If you know more like that please share!!
The are references to what happened in Mitosis in the seconnd Steelheart book, it's not necessaary but it's always nice to have a bit of background knowledge.
I totally agree with you about Holland.( if that's who you were referring to when it comes it getting the short end of the stick in regards to endings) I thought in the first books he was very two dimensional, but in a Conjuring of Light I think Victoria Schwab really upped her game and made his character so complex and heartbreaking. It got to the point where I was a TAD more interested in his flashbacks than I was in the story and I started to feel a bit disconnected from some of the characters. By the end, I was hoping for a spin off series with him? I would have bought that in a heartbeat, so I'm kind of disappointed. And yeah. With Lila she was very original and intriguing, and I still appreciated her character by the end of the series, but I think she became too much of a caricature when she got her magical powers and was just SO FANTASTIC at harnessing them in a matter of days. The best thing about her character for me was that she was scrappy and used her intelligence to get out of tough situations. That sort of went away once her powers were introduced.
I understand how you're underwhelmed by 1984. It is a very complex book, and it can be difficult to understand. But, I do think that it is an important novel, and the overall message of the book is important, especially with times being as they are now. The ending is a bit abrupt, but I did like that it kind of leaves some part to the imagination. Winston's transition to the devoted and brainwashed follower of Big Brother is something that I think readers might feel heartbroken to read first-hand, especially with how much he believed in the resistance before being interrogated. Overall, I really enjoyed the book, and I think it's an important read, but that is my opinion. You keep being you!
I like 1984 because of some of the quotes in there that I found really jarring. I guess it's more of a subtle dystopian but that makes it all the more creepy to me! Especially the bits about them totally changing the language so that people can't even THINK rebellious thoughts. That's like ultimate mind control but in a super subtle way!
I agree with you on 1984, some bits I had to force myself through however I still was intrigued with the plot. Brave New World is far better in my opinion!
I really liked the whole idea for 1984 but got bored a bit too. I totally recommend you Fahrenheit 451, I felt like it had everything that 1984 lacked. I hope you enjoy it if you decide to give it a try!
I read A conjuring of light. I have to agree with Lila being more flat. She was my favourite character in book one and two (so witty, sharp and funny) and this was gone in this book. It was my fave in the series though. And I liked the little insides in all the characters, even though some of them were not really necessary for plot development. I like character driven books that also have a decent chunk of plot, so this one was my fave in the trilogy. And I can see where your opinion on the ending came from, but I like it now. Not everything needs to end a 100% positive or feelgood. Holland being my fave character near the end, I didn't like the ending at first, but now I do, as it shows not everything always goes the way we want it to. It is just a the ending of a war, some things cannot be turned right, because they were massively ruined earlier on.
I´m currently reading 1984 and so far I like it! (I´m not that far into it though haha) Also I really want to read The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet! :)
Not sure if you've mentioned them, but since you seem to love Sci-Fi I was curious if you have red the Red Riding series or Dorothy Must Die (I'm about to start that one). If so, what are your thoughts? Ps. Came over from your beauty channel.. love this page too. So many make up artists and enthusiasts get a bad wrap for being shallow and/or not very intelligent. Love to see you prove those ignorant people wrong!
1984 goes beyond being one of the first of the genres because it was written pretty much at the beginning of the communist era in Eastern Europe. It might look like a dystopia but around here it was reality for 45 years.
I see The Passage and Mists of Avalon on your shelves, I’m curious what your thoughts are on those? I haven’t seen either mentioned on any of your videos, I’ve been going back and watching them all starting your very first one. Now that The Passage is being made into a show I’m eager to read that series tho there are so many mixed reviews. I’m curious what you think, I usually agree with you about pretty much everything, EXCEPT one major thing-I loved Uprooted! Her newest one Spinning Silver is even better you should give it a shot. But, back to Passage and Mists! Thoughts please!
I really loved 1984. Although it feels a bit weird to say that I _loved_ that kind of book, because I thought it was truly shocking. Especially in times like these it felt a bit too possible.
Have you read Six of Crows? I read the Mistborn Trilogy based on your recommendation so I feel that our tastes might be the same. It'd be interesting to see how you like Six of Crows, because I'm trying to read it at the moment.
Hi, I just wanted to let you know- and I hope it does not come off as mean or anything, I truly just want to inform you- that 1984 was not the first dystopian novel. Brave New World, which I'm pretty sure you hauled before, was published before 1984, and there are even more books (which, yeah are less popular) that were written before that. Also, 1984 was greatly inspired by another dystopian novel, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, again which was published before 1984, and even before Brave New World. I'm sorry to seem nit-picky, but I had written a dissertation on a topic that was concerned with dystopian literature, and I've kind of been 'protective' of it, and want to correct some of the booktube 'explanations' or discussions, I guess, of dystopian novels. But, apart from that, I do really like your booktube channel; you are one of the few booktubers that I not only tolerate, but enjoy watching.
I thought I said "one of the first" but it doesn't change my review. Being one of the first of the genre, it wasn't what it is today so I understand why it's not more "shocking". Although the fact that it is so plausible makes it more terrifying! For me, it was simply one of those books that I like the idea of more than the read itself!
Again, it isn't really the first of the genre (I'm pretty sure the dystopian, or then called anti-utopian literature has been around since the 19th century, I might be wrong about that, but that's because of its relationship with utopian literature, which the idea of utopia has been around since Plato). It's moreso one of the more popular books within dystopia (like Fahrenheit 451). And, personally, I find it to be more shocking than the dystopias of the 2000s because, like you say, it is more plausible than, say, The Hunger Games. And, to me, I find it hard to categorize the more recent dystopias with the earlier ones...but I don't know, it's just because I've been studying them for about a year haha. I really hope I don't come off as criticizing or mean or anything; unlike other booktubers that I have watched, you at least talk about dystopian literature from before the 2000s, which I really do enjoy!
I really disagree with what you thought about a conjuring of light. Especially about Lila, she has so much to her and I think she is one of the best female characters in modern literature. She is so strong and independent and has so many opinions. I also disagree that the endings were unfair. I think a lot of books try to make the readers happy and make everything perfect in the end, but the ending had a real-ness quality to it, and I appreciate schwab for that. I think if someone hasn't read this book, don't let this review push you away from it. (I say this with 100% respect to you and your opinions, we are not all the same and the world would be boring if we all believed the exact same things) :)
I 100% stand by my review. Lila becomes only known as being a badass fighter and nothing else. Too often this is how female characters are, just to not be the weak ones. Also I still think Holland's ending was very underwhelming. It didn't have to finish on a positive note but I think there still should have been more! Finally, 4 stars is a fantastic rating for me so nobody should take my review as a "don't read it". Especially since I said it's one of my favorite series!
I agree with you, and you were correct in using "one-dimensional." YA Fantasy/Sci-fi is chock full of "bad-ass" female characters who are good in a fight, but how do you differentiate them from the others? Good with a sword? Check. Good with a bow and arrow? Check. Always wins despite insurmountable odds? Check. I would love to read about more complex characters who do more than just fight well.
1984 its actually a book about politics, not science fiction, even if that's what it seems. It contains many many truths from the politic realities around the globe.
'A conjouring of light' was unfortunatly quite a disappointment. It was just totally over the top at least in my opinion. SPOILER ALERT The main action happened on the foundation that there is this enormous threat and to underline the danger everyone except the protagonists have to die. Sure life is not all about sunshine and rainbows , but it became ridiculous how many side characters died just because to show the menace. So when when Kells former guard was killed by the traitorous female captain the book lost me. I just knew how it woud go on and end which totally killed any excitement for me.. Lila actually didn't bothered me that much actually. In general I really liked the idea of this world(s) and the story, characters were overall really interesting and human but the third book was sadly not for me.
Aw sorry to hear that you don't love 1984. I personally LOVE the ending for it because the whole book is broken up into three parts and each of the three parts follow the three methods that O'Brien talks about towards the end about re-education. (SPOLERS for anyone who has read the ending) I know the ending itself, the very last couple of pages, feels abrupt and odd, but it shows how Winston has completely stopped thinking individually and he now lives for Big Brother. Once his love for Big Brother becomes strong he will be killed (he is told this while being tortured) it is implied that as he looks up at the BB poster, he is shot in the head and the final stage is complete: the complete desire and love for Big Brother has been fulfilled. I'm a huge fan of the novel and I had a lot of great discussions while reading it as a class and since reading it I've written several papers on it. It's one of my favorite novels, but I also get that it may not be for everyone because Orwell has a very simple writing style and the middle lags a bit due to Winston and Julia's relationship.
I've read 1984 and what I really loved about it is that post WWII George Orwell thinks about the horrors the future might hold and considering how our lives look like today, I'd say he wasn't that far off. And that is frightening.
In many ways, 1984 defined the genre (though Orwell borrowed much of the plot from Zamyatin's We). If you read all the contemporary dystopias first, it may be harder to appreciate, because basically you've read multiple versions of 1984 - retellings of this story, and adapted to our own current issues, obsessions and storytelling techniques. I love the ending, btw - I think it's one of the novel's strongest points, because with one sentence, it takes away all hope and leaves you with nothing but despair. Orwell is not messing around - this is a complete dystopia.
Anyway - it's one of my fav novels, though I prefer Brave New World, because it contains elements of humor.
I couldn't agree more, the ending is my absolute favourite part of the book.
I used the word "caricature" to describe Lila in Conjuring of Light too. Completely agree. Great video.
A lot of people seem to disagree but it really felt like she was "only" a badass female and that's it.
During the first book she reminded me a lot of Vin from Mistborn and by the last book, you can see how different their growth is. Vin is so much more complex than Lila!
BookswithEmilyFox I agree 100%. Vin became more complex with each book. She was a 'bad ass' but more. Lila fell flat for me. There were moments I thought it could change but then she would just fall right back into 'tough as nails' even when it didn't work or make sense for the character.
But I do love V Schwab's writing.
I definitely like V E Schwab as a writer! I was just disappointed since I like Lila's character in the first 2 books but not in the third. Like you said, she was constantly just seen as a "tough as nails".
Heck everyone is reacting like I bashed the book but 4 stars is really good for me (my average is low 3 this year so far!) haha
BookswithEmilyFox I didn't think it was bashing at all. Just honest. I gave it 4 stars as well. 😀
If you’re more familiar with modern dystopian literature, I can see how 1984 might not be what you were expecting. Modern stuff tends to start with a dystopian society, but by the end of the work or series, that society has been overthrown. Older dystopian works tend to be much bleaker and far more blatantly political. I personally love early dystopian lit - Erehwon by Samuel Butler; The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope; Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Even Utopia by Thomas More raises questions about the society it describes.
I'm so excited to read The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet! Reading more this year let me discover that I absolutely love character driven stories and I need to pick more of them up
I'm really surprised you like The Kiss Of Deception series. You should check out Between Shades of Grey or Salt To the Sea both are by the same Author she is a historical fiction writer and is amazing.
I didn't expect myself to like it since it's a romance but once in a while one will work for me!
I love love love that you are reading all different genres! Makes me force myself to do the same this year as I only like to stick to my favourite genres !
Agree with your assessment of the new V.E. Shwab book... I am mid-book right now and I'm pretty dissapointed...honestly, struggling to get through it. It's constant action without any points of calm to balance it out. And not enough character development..
I would love a video of all you 5 star books!
Well I did a video with my favorite books of 2016 which most of them were 5 stars :)
1984 could be boring at times but the message was pretty powerful.
Also you should read In The Heart Of The Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Heart Of The Sea was really good!
I'll have to check it out!
I am getting Brain on fire from the library so intrigued by that one. I also can't wait to read conjuring of light! Oh and I forgot to tell you with Lab Girl which I absolutely love, take your time. Its very detailed but beautifully written. Finding good non fiction can be hard sometimes.
Ok, I know you mentioned Dr. House, so I'm going to throw out a recommendation that I think you'd enjoy if you like Bones. "Working Stiff" by Judy Melinek is such an interesting nonfiction read. It follows Judy, a medical examiner in NY, as well as during her time working through the 9/11 aftermath. It may sound weird, but it's full of interesting stories, and for a nonfiction, it's super entertaining.
I have the flu too! luckily I'm on spring break. I've got a lot of reading done though..... feel better!
Emily, Have you read Salt to the sea? I highly recommend it to you
I haven't!
BookswithEmilyFox You have to. Especially with the audiobook, An easy read , a touching story, and a simple breathtaking writing.
Hope you feel better soon! Great info about books I also want to read. thank you 😊
I LOVE movies about people that die and come back so I'm definitely checking out The First Fifteen Lives book. If you know more like that please share!!
The ending to 1984 is absolutely gut-wrenching.
I read two books but each was 600 pages so I'm still pleased. 😄Helen x
The are references to what happened in Mitosis in the seconnd Steelheart book, it's not necessaary but it's always nice to have a bit of background knowledge.
Good to know!
I totally agree with you about Holland.( if that's who you were referring to when it comes it getting the short end of the stick in regards to endings) I thought in the first books he was very two dimensional, but in a Conjuring of Light I think Victoria Schwab really upped her game and made his character so complex and heartbreaking. It got to the point where I was a TAD more interested in his flashbacks than I was in the story and I started to feel a bit disconnected from some of the characters. By the end, I was hoping for a spin off series with him? I would have bought that in a heartbeat, so I'm kind of disappointed. And yeah. With Lila she was very original and intriguing, and I still appreciated her character by the end of the series, but I think she became too much of a caricature when she got her magical powers and was just SO FANTASTIC at harnessing them in a matter of days. The best thing about her character for me was that she was scrappy and used her intelligence to get out of tough situations. That sort of went away once her powers were introduced.
Exactly!! I was liking him a lot more here and I wasn't even asking for a "positive" ending for him but I just expected more!
I understand how you're underwhelmed by 1984. It is a very complex book, and it can be difficult to understand. But, I do think that it is an important novel, and the overall message of the book is important, especially with times being as they are now. The ending is a bit abrupt, but I did like that it kind of leaves some part to the imagination. Winston's transition to the devoted and brainwashed follower of Big Brother is something that I think readers might feel heartbroken to read first-hand, especially with how much he believed in the resistance before being interrogated. Overall, I really enjoyed the book, and I think it's an important read, but that is my opinion. You keep being you!
It wasn't for a lack of understanding, I just felt a bit underwhelmed after hearing people rave about it for so long!
i loveeeddd 1984 - especially more than Animal Farm! I did have to skim the bits when he was reading the book though...:(
Oh I loved The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet! It was definitely character driven but I honestly found it quite fast paced!
I'm glad you feel the same way as me about the ending of 1984!! I never even finished it because my friend told me the ending and I was like NOPE
Even if I understand it... it still was pretty underwhelming :S
I read zero books this month 😩. I'll do better in April for sure!
Hope you feel better soon! 😘
You've been busy traveling apparently ;)
I love your videos so much, Emily! Hope you'll feel better soon!
You should really finish The Remnant Chronicles, it's one of my fave series. It got me really hooked right from the start.
Oh dear, I hope you get over the flu quickly!!!
felt the same with Conjuring of Light, it was really good but still expected something more!
Glad that others are speaking out about it!
I like 1984 because of some of the quotes in there that I found really jarring. I guess it's more of a subtle dystopian but that makes it all the more creepy to me! Especially the bits about them totally changing the language so that people can't even THINK rebellious thoughts. That's like ultimate mind control but in a super subtle way!
Definitely agree! It's just one of those books that I like the idea of more than the read itself!
BookswithEmilyFox That's true, I totally agree with you on that!
I agree with you on 1984, some bits I had to force myself through however I still was intrigued with the plot. Brave New World is far better in my opinion!
I really liked the whole idea for 1984 but got bored a bit too. I totally recommend you Fahrenheit 451, I felt like it had everything that 1984 lacked. I hope you enjoy it if you decide to give it a try!
"Read' that one in high school but I'm planning to reread it this year!
I read A conjuring of light. I have to agree with Lila being more flat. She was my favourite character in book one and two (so witty, sharp and funny) and this was gone in this book.
It was my fave in the series though. And I liked the little insides in all the characters, even though some of them were not really necessary for plot development. I like character driven books that also have a decent chunk of plot, so this one was my fave in the trilogy.
And I can see where your opinion on the ending came from, but I like it now. Not everything needs to end a 100% positive or feelgood. Holland being my fave character near the end, I didn't like the ending at first, but now I do, as it shows not everything always goes the way we want it to. It is just a the ending of a war, some things cannot be turned right, because they were massively ruined earlier on.
I didn't really want a happy ending for him but it just felt a bit underwhelming and expected a bit more for him!
that I can agree with. it was massively underwelming
You are so inspiring! Lots of kisses from Budapest!
I´m currently reading 1984 and so far I like it! (I´m not that far into it though haha) Also I really want to read The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet! :)
Am in middle of reading slump right now :) yeeey :)💔💔💔
did you read the time travelers wife? warm and fuzzy as well... love your reading taste and how you describe the stories.
Not sure if you've mentioned them, but since you seem to love Sci-Fi I was curious if you have red the Red Riding series or Dorothy Must Die (I'm about to start that one). If so, what are your thoughts?
Ps. Came over from your beauty channel.. love this page too. So many make up artists and enthusiasts get a bad wrap for being shallow and/or not very intelligent. Love to see you prove those ignorant people wrong!
1984 goes beyond being one of the first of the genres because it was written pretty much at the beginning of the communist era in Eastern Europe. It might look like a dystopia but around here it was reality for 45 years.
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I see The Passage and Mists of Avalon on your shelves, I’m curious what your thoughts are on those? I haven’t seen either mentioned on any of your videos, I’ve been going back and watching them all starting your very first one. Now that The Passage is being made into a show I’m eager to read that series tho there are so many mixed reviews. I’m curious what you think, I usually agree with you about pretty much everything, EXCEPT one major thing-I loved Uprooted! Her newest one Spinning Silver is even better you should give it a shot. But, back to Passage and Mists! Thoughts please!
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I really loved 1984. Although it feels a bit weird to say that I _loved_ that kind of book, because I thought it was truly shocking. Especially in times like these it felt a bit too possible.
I only read 5books but I'm damn proud of myself
5 books is awesome!!
BookswithEmilyFox aww....thanks💕
Have you read Six of Crows? I read the Mistborn Trilogy based on your recommendation so I feel that our tastes might be the same. It'd be interesting to see how you like Six of Crows, because I'm trying to read it at the moment.
Planning on it after reading the first trilogy she wrote!
Hi, I just wanted to let you know- and I hope it does not come off as mean or anything, I truly just want to inform you- that 1984 was not the first dystopian novel. Brave New World, which I'm pretty sure you hauled before, was published before 1984, and there are even more books (which, yeah are less popular) that were written before that. Also, 1984 was greatly inspired by another dystopian novel, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, again which was published before 1984, and even before Brave New World. I'm sorry to seem nit-picky, but I had written a dissertation on a topic that was concerned with dystopian literature, and I've kind of been 'protective' of it, and want to correct some of the booktube 'explanations' or discussions, I guess, of dystopian novels.
But, apart from that, I do really like your booktube channel; you are one of the few booktubers that I not only tolerate, but enjoy watching.
mbergie 1313 I was wondering if she understood that
I thought I said "one of the first" but it doesn't change my review. Being one of the first of the genre, it wasn't what it is today so I understand why it's not more "shocking". Although the fact that it is so plausible makes it more terrifying!
For me, it was simply one of those books that I like the idea of more than the read itself!
Again, it isn't really the first of the genre (I'm pretty sure the dystopian, or then called anti-utopian literature has been around since the 19th century, I might be wrong about that, but that's because of its relationship with utopian literature, which the idea of utopia has been around since Plato). It's moreso one of the more popular books within dystopia (like Fahrenheit 451). And, personally, I find it to be more shocking than the dystopias of the 2000s because, like you say, it is more plausible than, say, The Hunger Games. And, to me, I find it hard to categorize the more recent dystopias with the earlier ones...but I don't know, it's just because I've been studying them for about a year haha. I really hope I don't come off as criticizing or mean or anything; unlike other booktubers that I have watched, you at least talk about dystopian literature from before the 2000s, which I really do enjoy!
I really disagree with what you thought about a conjuring of light. Especially about Lila, she has so much to her and I think she is one of the best female characters in modern literature. She is so strong and independent and has so many opinions. I also disagree that the endings were unfair. I think a lot of books try to make the readers happy and make everything perfect in the end, but the ending had a real-ness quality to it, and I appreciate schwab for that. I think if someone hasn't read this book, don't let this review push you away from it. (I say this with 100% respect to you and your opinions, we are not all the same and the world would be boring if we all believed the exact same things) :)
I 100% stand by my review. Lila becomes only known as being a badass fighter and nothing else. Too often this is how female characters are, just to not be the weak ones.
Also I still think Holland's ending was very underwhelming. It didn't have to finish on a positive note but I think there still should have been more!
Finally, 4 stars is a fantastic rating for me so nobody should take my review as a "don't read it". Especially since I said it's one of my favorite series!
I agree with you, and you were correct in using "one-dimensional." YA Fantasy/Sci-fi is chock full of "bad-ass" female characters who are good in a fight, but how do you differentiate them from the others? Good with a sword? Check. Good with a bow and arrow? Check. Always wins despite insurmountable odds? Check. I would love to read about more complex characters who do more than just fight well.
Hi Emily! I really really love the top you wear on this video! Where can I find it? 🙏🏻😌
how is your english so good?! 😍 I speak english as a second language but it doesn't sound fluent like yours!
Honestly practice is key!
Hi Emily , can you make a video with suggestions of books in english ,which are easy to understand, because i don't know english very well?
Start with things you might already know. I always recommend reading Harry Potter in English to start with! YA books also tend to be easier to read!
BookswithEmilyFox Thank you !!❤
I just saw the trailer for the new "It" movie based on Stephen King's novel...do you plan on reading that before the new movie comes out? :)
I've been avoiding seeing the trailer haha I need to read the book before watching the movie but I'm not sure when I'll get to it!
BookswithEmilyFox it is a big book and in some ways quite challenging to read as it's very descriptive.
1984 its actually a book about politics, not science fiction, even if that's what it seems. It contains many many truths from the politic realities around the globe.
'A conjouring of light' was unfortunatly quite a disappointment. It was just totally over the top at least in my opinion.
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The main action happened on the foundation that there is this enormous threat and to underline the danger everyone except the protagonists have to die. Sure life is not all about sunshine and rainbows , but it became ridiculous how many side characters died just because to show the menace. So when when Kells former guard was killed by the traitorous female captain the book lost me. I just knew how it woud go on and end which totally killed any excitement for me..
Lila actually didn't bothered me that much actually.
In general I really liked the idea of this world(s) and the story, characters were overall really interesting and human but the third book was sadly not for me.
I just don't get how everyone loves Lila....she's a sociopath....
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I don't think she would be likeable if she wasn't with Kell. He's much nicer than her and has more to him than just being a badass!
i had to read 1984 for school and it was boring