Spoilers part 2-- I'm talking about the things you aren't supposed to talk about!!

This is meant to be my way of TALKING about the THINGS that I can't talk about in reviews.  The twists, the endings, the OMG stuff that I don't want to spoil people who haven't read the book yet.  Also, this is sort of my way of asking you for help-- understanding what I read or talking through different theories and thoughts these book brought up for me.


This post is not for people who haven't read these books.  If there is a book on this list you haven't read, please scroll on through because there will be SPOILERS!!

These are the books I want to talk THINGS about:

Sadie

• I am a HUGE Courtney Summers fan and have been since I started blogging almost 7 years ago.
• I'm super happy that SADIE got her so much buzz-- it's about time!!
• Anyway, I wrote a review-- but so much of this book was SPOILER-city, so I felt like all my feelings had to stay bottled up.... until now!
• One thing that really creeped me out was the pedophile network.  When Sadie went to that abandoned house and it became painfully clear that this was about more than just one random sicko.  This was a network of sickos who help each other out and I don't even want to know what else.  I felt physically ill.
• The ending-- so, I think the ending is definitely open to interpretation.  We don't get told what ultimately happened to Sadie.  We know she was injured by Keith (whateverhisnameis), we know her car was found abandoned.
• I think it's too easy just to say that Keith killed her and hid the body.  In my head, the hitchhiking incident wasn't in there at random.  I think Sadie got the idea from that girl that she could be free & be whoever she wanted to be.  Not Sadie-- not the girl with the dead sister, the girl who was molested, the girl with the mom that took off, the girl with the stutter, the girl who had to do some really hard things to make things right.  She could be whoever she chose to be moving forward.
• So I think that Sadie is alive (unless something unsavory happened to her when she hitched a ride out of there).  I don't know if she'll ever surface and let West and his listeners know that there isn't "another dead girl", but I think she's out there.

A Room Away From the Wolves

• WHAT???
• I am so confused by this book.  I was thinking the Catherine House was some limbo state where people go to decide if they'll live or die-- but some of those girls were obviously from a different era-- so how could they not know if they were going to die??  Were they all in comas at hospitals somewhere?  That doesn't make sense (not that much in this book did).
• Is Bina just imagining going to the Catherine House because her mom talked about it so much-- and the actual Catherine House is nothing like this?
• Was Monet supposed to be the mom or to do with mom??  If not, why with the hair?
• It felt like when Monet went over the fence she lived-- but them meeting at the train station threw me-- was that where they get transported to the next part of life/death?
• Was the mom dead when she lived at Catherine House?  How was she able to be dead and after a summer go back and live?
• Is her mom dead now?
• Why did the ring break? What did the ring breaking signify?
• Why did the girl from the house (Catherine) leave?
• Where did everyone that got to leave GO?
• What was the point beyond a creepy setting and a MAYBE friendship?  Was the main character any different than she was at the beginning of the book?
• Like was she just half dead in the woods and hallucinating this entire thing?
• SOME TELL ME WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED IN THE ENTIRE BOOK!  Please?

The Last Good Day of the Year

• The guy who ended up being the bad guy-- HOLY SHIT he freaked me out!!!
• The way he was going through the attics of the townhouses to get into their house!!  I was totally shook.  I mean, Remy's grandma was saying someone was coming into her room-- and she wasn't just saying that because of dementia.  SOMEONE WAS COMING INTO THEIR HOUSES.  That is so creepy!!!
• I still don't get why there were so many Santa suits involved after Christmas-- but that just added to the creep factor.
• It was a good villain reveal, but I was wishing that the real killer wouldn't get off so easy as to just die a painful death.  I wanted him to have to face up to what he did and answer questions about what else he had done.
• I'm creeped out just thinking about this book.

Broken Things

• Can someone tell me why this teacher did it??
• Because she's a serial killer??  She's a wacko??
• Why was she "working" with Summer to write fan-fic?  Because she wanted to spend time with her with the intention NOT to kill her??  So she wanted to be secret friends with a 13-year-old and when that didn't work out, she killed her?
• I just don't get what happened here.  I don't get why Summer would hang out with this woman-- unless it was because she was writing the Lovelorn fan-fic and Summer was passing it off as her own and that's why she didn't want them to know??  I get that, but Summer just strikes me as someone who would not hang out with this woman so much.

Wilder Girls

• So many questions.
• So this "tox" ends up being a parasite.... but why is it only on this island??  It's mentioned that global warming is to blame for certain things, so is this where the parasite came from??  Like the glaciers warming and letting things out that were froze thousands (millions?) of years ago??  I'm not a sciencey person, so maybe I'm not understanding what the author was getting at there.
• The doctors were saying estrogen was a major component in the disease-- but if that's the case, why did the men get it too?  Was it that the girls who went through puberty and had estrogen were able to live with the disease better because the added estrogen did something to allow them to live??  Why does this parasite affect each teen differently (one has her eye go completely shut, one grows fins out of her back)??  And why do the teenagers and adult women get completely different versions of the disease? It's not explained at all.
• How is this parasite infecting animals AND plants? Is that even possible??  And if it is how the heck would it have not escaped the island by now?  It would've infected fish that SWIM.  And algae and stuff in the water that FLOATS.  And it would've been taken back to the mainland.  Right?
• What the fuuuuuuck is up with that ending??  If Byatt pulled it out is she cured?  What about the other 2 girls?  Are they about to go infect the whole world? Are they just going to die on this boat?

Let's Talk:
Have you read any of these books?  Please share what you think of them if you have-- because obviously my thoughts are all over the place with these!!

SPOILERS!!! I want to talk about the THINGS!

This is meant to be my way of TALKING about the THINGS that I can't talk about in reviews.  The twists, the endings, the OMG stuff that I don't want to spoil people who haven't read the book yet.

This post is not for people who haven't read these books.  If there is a book on this list you haven't read, please scroll on through because there will be SPOILERS!!




I want to talk about the THINGS in these books:

Letters to the Lost

• As much as I loved this book (and I really really did):
• The parents were both jerks. I'm sorry but Declan's mom doesn't get to all of a sudden GAF at the very end of the book-- same with Juliet's dad.  And the fact that BOTH of them decided to be all "let's be HEA together" kind of ruined the ending for me.
• Declan walked around like he was invisible, crying out for attention, and his mom refused to give it to him for the whole book.  I get that she was dealing with the death of her daughter-- but she let Declan believe it was all his fault and his life could've ended over it.  Fuck you Declan's mom.  That's what I say.
• Juliet's dad was much the same.  I get he's grieving, but way to let your devastated daughter feel completely alone.
• I didn't buy that they BOTH woke up and decided to be better right at the same time.  It felt unrealistic.
• I loveddddd the book though.  And thank goodness Declan and Juliet found each other, even though they had kickass friends, they needed to be understood by people who were going through the same things.

Never Missing, Never Found

• Does Scarlett not know what people look like?  For that matter, does anyone know what anyone looks like??
• Katharina shows up saying all these lines that were said when they were in captivity together and Scarlett's all-- I wonder who this girl is??  
• She's the girl you spent years with and think about all the time.  She's the girl you've been impersonating for however long you've been out.  HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE??  Did she have major face reconstruction like something out of the soap operas?
• I understand Scarlett's family was in denial, but WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL.  How do you not know what your kid looks like?

The Husband's Secret

• I was DOWN with this book.  I read BIG LITTLE LIES earlier this year, and I immediately wanted more Liane Moriarty.  But the ending of this book kind of bugged me.
• When the book decided to tell us information that no could ever know, I was kind of like ???? 
• Did it matter that Janie had a heart defect??  Am I supposed to feel sorry for John-Paul now because he choked a girl, but it technically isn't the only reason she died??  He's never going to know that anyway, so why did I as a reader need to know that.  Also, UGHHH I feel bad about his daughter, but it was just a cruel coincidence, it wasn't Karma or whatever else.  He still should have had to answer for Janie's death.

This Darkness Mine

• I'm going to start with the last chapter.  Up until then, I was actually BUYING Sasha's evil twin scenario.  All it took was that one sentence to make me realize that I was being an idiot for the entire book.  Girl just makes stuff up-- how did I not get that??
• The book ended with Sasha being a stalker with the family/friends/boyfriend of the girl who she received the new heart from & saying that this girl is inside her telling her to do these things.  Like, wahhhhhh????  I don't even have words for the level of fuck-up this book was.
• I was totally on board with Sasha's darkness until she started throwing herself out of windows and puking in girls' mouths.  That's just 🙅🏻🙅🏻
• But really, did Mindy McGinnis really expect us to believe someone could or would rip out their own heart??  I call BS on that scene.  And WAS she trying to set Issac up for murder???????  My friend Cassi told me that and now I'm like 🙃

Losing Leah

• At the beginning of this book, I was feeling the dual stories of Leah and Mia.  The times when I would read about Mia (the twin living a "normal" life), I was turning pages like mad to get back to Leah (the twin that was kidnapped), but I was still interested in Mia's life and why she was having delusions/hallucinations/headaches/blackouts.
• When Leah was rescued and it came out that Mia didn't even exist.  Or I guess Leah didn't exist-- because of the name change thing??  Whatever, the twin that didn't get kidnapped was all a coping mechanism of Leah's mind to help her deal with her loneliness.
• I felt swindled, but I was willing to let it go even though the book was no longer page-turning because the intenseness of the situation was gone.  THEN the same thing kept happening.  We were introduced to people that Mia/Leah formed relationships with, and BAM it comes out that it's once again fake.  The whole book is one fake make-believe hallucination.
• It reminded me of this book I read a long time ago called POPULAR.  I read that whole freaking book just to learn that all of the characters were not real.  I don't find that trick fun.

Let's Talk:
Have you read any of these books??  Please share your thoughts with me!