emma's Reviews > The Lives of Saints

A common belief held by many people, formerly myself included, is that when people are very beautiful they are often not that interesting. Because they are immediately somewhat interesting due to being fun to look at, they did not need to develop much beyond that.

That is not how I feel about people, but it is how I feel about this book.

This is one of the most crazy beautiful books I have ever held in my hands. Every turned page was like...gasp! Wow! Paparazzi, get over here!

But the writing...left something to be desired.

Have you ever read a book that fails so completely to get you into it that you can't really focus throughout?

This is a very short book and it took me hours to read it, for that reason alone.

You do have to hand it to the Grishaverse, though. Not many other series could write a complete theological text with examples of saints from each fictional country in said fictional universe.

That's some damn good worldbuilding.

Bottom line: They can't all be hits! And if this book being slightly worse gets Ninth House 2 finished even days earlier, then so be it.

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pre-review

i've probably said this before but i don't care. i'll scream it from the rooftops.

nobody is doing it like leigh bardugo.

review to come / 3 stars

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i just received this as a gift and threw the horrible half dust jacket away immediately.

merry christmas to all

clear ur sh*t book 56
quest 24: a book in a series

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tbr review

i am forced to assume that this extremely exciting book is this ugly solely to teach me not to judge books by their covers