Rate the last book you've read

Inspired by @Taylor25's similar thread for movies, I decided to make one for rating books. I'll start us off.

Last book I read...

Amy & Roger's Epic Detour -- Morgan Matson 9/10

I would say this book was really great for what it was, especially now that I'm currently reading another YA romance that is way way worse in comparison. Kind of makes me realize even more how well-done this book was. It's a good, fun, easy YA romance with some depth and a bit of sadness as well. Made me cry a couple times. I enjoyed it quite a lot.

 

Jane Eyre (i like the classics) 9/10, one of my favorites. I've read it before a few years ago, but i recently reread it and still thought it was great.

 

I'd like to read this at some point. And Emma is another classic I've been wanting to read.

 

Emma is a good one too, but jane austen books tend to be almost word for word with the movies, so if you've seen those it can be a little deja vu lol

 

I haven't seen the movie, so that's good. I think the only one I've seen is Colin Firth's Pride and Prejudice, but that was after I read the book anyway.

 

Oh okay, the you're good to go. I've seen a bunch of jane austen movies. 2 versions of pride and prejudice, 2 versions of emma, 2 versions of sense and sensibility, 2 versions of persuasion, northanger abbey, love and friendship and mansfield park. Wow, i didn't even realize how many until i started writing them lol. Anyway...the book is a good read.

 

To All the Boys I've Loved Before 2/10

I so do not get the hype for this book, within the YA community. It's so bad. The writing is terrible. If I were a Creative Writing teacher, I would have my students read this book to see what NOT to do.

By the end, I did mildly enjoy the story. Enough that it was no longer a chore to keep reading the book. But still, it was just really poorly written. I felt nothing for any of the characters, the author constantly wanted to TELL us everything instead of SHOWING it, and the dialogue was so terribly unbelievable and not what normal people would say. The main character also came across as pretty shallow to me, and the love interest was a pretty rude, arrogant guy with not a lot of redeeming qualities.

Just all around a pretty bad book. Idk why so many people love it.

 

I'm sad this got moved to sandbox :/ the one for movies has been in off topic for forever. Its annoying to not be able to like any comments.

 

Yeah, I agree. It makes no sense. Especially when the rating movies thread was in off topic for months. Its really annoying to not be able to like y'alls comments :/

 

Death on the nile (Poirot) 8.5/10

In my opinion, one of the better Poirot mysteries i have read.