the teeny tiny witch goes to the library

Deaths, plot twists, alien attacks! Trust me, you missed a lot in those intervening pages. Um, I may be missing something here but… how can something be overdramatic and super boring at the same time? But just speaking to the ‘boring and predictable’ part, I’m even more confused because this book has so much action. The fact that the number of 1 star reviews for this book doesn’t even constitute 1% of the total on both Goodreads and Amazon gives me such warm fuzzies. As for boobs, lesbians, gossip columns, and green dresses, well geez, someone better call the literary police! We can’t have those infesting our books now, can we? Think of the children! I know plenty of people were divided over the content of the twist but placing it right at the end isn’t an uncommon way to use that device. As for particularly interesting, well, we disagree. Then they would’ve been further up the holds list at your library to read it.ĭoes every book need to do something profound or entirely new to be considered good or worthwhile? I mean, I love rom-coms largely for their predictable, fluffy formula. Hey, I’m sure plenty of other people wish that, too. Besides, doesn’t that make it far more interesting from a literary perspective? Yes, the relationship between Evelyn and Celia isn’t perfect or entirely healthy but a large part of that is due to the stress of the circumstances and time.

Plus, it’s a guarantee that many famous people in this era had to cover up the fact that they weren’t straight. At least they weren’t boring, right? In terms of ‘difficult to believe’, aren’t most of the crazy things that happen in Hollywood hard to believe? Seven husbands alone sounds ridiculous but, then again, Elizabeth Taylor got married EIGHT times. While I loved the characters, I’m not going to argue with someone about not feeling the same way. Here are a couple of people who were…less enthralled than I was. I loved this book and even named it my favourite read of 2018. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid So, I’ve scoured Amazon and Goodreads to find some short and complete opposite opinions to my own on a couple of my five star reads. After all, sometimes it’s good to challenge your own viewpoint.

With this in mind, I thought I’d try my hand at a post that quite a lot of other people in the community have done previously – reacting to some really negative reviews of books I loved. Their reasons for this can vary from bizarre and hilarious to problematic to genuinely reasonable. And, as we all know, just because you enjoy something that doesn’t necessarily mean other people will, too. Sometimes we fall in love with a book and sometimes…we really wish we’d spent our time doing something else.

The teeny tiny witch goes to the library