Elzburg Reviews

The Show Must Go On by Kate Karyus Quinn My rating: 4 of 5 stars Because lucky me, even though I am 100 percent talking out of my ass, it turns out my ass is a secret genius. Wow. The Show Must Go On was surprisingly great. And by “great” I mean that this is very likely the best romance I’ve ever experienced (including books, movies, tv, etc.). It was also filled to the brim with funny lines like the one above, so for the first time in my life I found myself constantly laughing-out-loud while reading a book. But… then the ending happened… and it left me feeling insanely disappointed, which is what knocked a whole star off of my rating. Will actually walks over to [the bookshelf], like he's unable to resist the siren call of literature. Obviously, despite losing the glasses, his nerd instincts are still strong. First and foremost, since it doesn’t look like there are any reviews by people who have ever read Quinn before, I just want to st...

Swagger by Carl Deuker My rating: 3 of 5 stars RTC. Until then, my notes: • this book has the most actual playtime out of any sports novel I've ever read so far • i really dislike the really short chapters • i really dislike the juvenile writing style, however it does perfectly match the main character • i'm in actual mourning after the author *major spoiler* (view spoiler) [killed off Levi (hide spoiler) ] . That monster. i read it while i was foam rolling and had to shove my kobo awake and get up to take a walk. i actually cried so much and so hard • i let it sit for a few days and I still shed a single tear for *same major spoiler* (view spoiler) [Levi (hide spoiler) ] after I came back to this book. this is the single saddest *same major spoiler* (view spoiler) [character death (hide spoiler) ] I have the ever experienced View all my reviews

This One Summer  by  Mariko Tamaki My rating:  3 of 5 stars The last words on the second-last page of the book: Maybe I will have massive boobs. Me: Lol what if this is the last sentence and it’s about boobs. Me: *flips the page* Boobs would be cool. The absolute madlads did it. They made the last *two* sentences about boobs. Anyway, hi, hello, welcome to this review, lol. I haven’t written a review in a hot minute because of school, but I read this  for  school and have some things I wanna say so here I am!!! This One Summer  is… about… one summer. A super duper regular-on-all-accounts summer. Like, so insanely regular that that’s what I thought the point was: to make the most normal contemporary book possible about what being a kid on a beach in summer is like. And I thought it succeeded with flying colours at this. It was even borderline boring at parts, but then I would remember what I was reading and would think, “... actually--yeah, th...