Nu kommer slutligen min sammanfattning av läsåret 2021, som ni kanske har märkt inte riktigt gick som jag hade hoppats. Jag kommer att infoga böckernas beskrivningar och lite kort om varför jag inte riktigt tyckte att de levde upp till mina förväntningar. Jag kommer att prata om sex böcker. Största besvikelsen kommer först sen kommer andra, i rakt nedåtgående led. Anledningen till att de hamnade på min lista över besvikelser behöver inte nödvändigtvis betyda att boken fick 1 stjärna i betyg. Då en bok på listan faktiskt fick 3,5 stjärna i betyg. Men dem är med för att dem av olika anledningar inte levde upp till mina förväntningar.
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Största besvikelsen!
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Goodreads beskrivning av Fruit basket collector's edition vol. 1
A family with an ancient curse...
And the girl who will change their lives forever...
Tohru
Honda was an orphan with no place to go until the mysterious Sohma
family offered her a place to call home. Now her ordinary high school
life is turned upside down as she's introduced to the Sohma's world of
magical curses and family secrets.
Varför blev jag besviken?
Det kändes som att inget intressant hände och jag upplevde att jag fick tvinga mig själv att fortsätta läsa den! Även fast det var en maga, som alltså borde ha varit jättesnabbläst!
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Goodreads beskrivning av A song below water
Tavia is already at odds
with the world, forced to keep her siren identity under wraps in a
society that wants to keep her kind under lock and key. Nevermind she's
also stuck in Portland, Oregon, a city with only a handful of black folk
and even fewer of those with magical powers. At least she has her
bestie Effie by her side as they tackle high school drama, family
secrets, and unrequited crushes.
But everything changes in the
aftermath of a siren murder trial that rocks the nation; the girls’
favorite Internet fashion icon reveals she's also a siren, and the news
rips through their community. Tensions escalate when Effie starts being
haunted by demons from her past, and Tavia accidentally lets out her
magical voice during a police stop. No secret seems safe anymore—soon
Portland won’t be either.
Varför blev jag besviken?
Till att börja med så måste jag erkänna att det här helt och hållet var en cover-buy så jag hade inte speciellt stora förväntningar till att börja med. Men bokens magi-och världuppbyggnad var inte alls tillräckligt bra för att man som läsare skulle hänga med bra i handlingen. Man fick inga bra förklaringar eller bakgrundsbeskrivningar av något/någon heller.
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Goodreads beskrivning av Loki: where mischief lies
Before the days of going
toe-to-toe with the Avengers, a younger Loki is desperate to prove
himself heroic and capable, while it seems everyone around him suspects
him of inevitable villainy and depravity . . . except for Amora.
Asgard's resident sorceress-in-training feels like a kindred
spirit-someone who values magic and knowledge, who might even see the
best in him.
But when Loki and Amora cause the destruction of one
of Asgard's most prized possessions, Amora is banished to Earth, where
her powers will slowly and excruciatingly fade to nothing. Without the
only person who ever looked at his magic as a gift instead of a threat,
Loki slips further into anguish and the shadow of his universally adored
brother, Thor.
When Asgardian magic is detected in relation to a
string of mysterious murders on Earth, Odin sends Loki to investigate.
As he descends upon nineteenth-century London, Loki embarks on a journey
that leads him to more than just a murder suspect, putting him on a
path to discover the source of his power-and who he's meant to be.
Varför blev jag besviken?
Det kändes som att boken hade kunnat kortas ned något. Detta då det kändes som att det var längre partier där det inte hände mycket alls för att föra handlingen framåt. Lokis karaktärsutveckling var tydlig men den hade kunnat utvecklas ännu mer.
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Goodreads beskrivning av Beauty Queens
Teen beauty queens. A
lost island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to email. And the spirit
of fierce, feral competition that lives deep in the heart of every girl,
a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the
heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! When a
plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious
island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to
combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance
numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
Varför blev jag besviken?
Boken var alldeles för lång och hade kunnat kortas ned mycket. Det var väldigt irriterande "reklaminslag" mitt i berättelsen som inte riktigt hade med saken att göra. Vilket ledde till att jag efter ett tag inte hade lust att plocka upp boken igen.
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Goodreads beskrivning av The Poet XXiomara Batista feels
unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her
body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her
fierceness do the talking.
But Xiomara has plenty she wants to
say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a
leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially
after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who
her family can never know about.
With Mami’s determination to
force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands
that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to
join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever
attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking
about performing her poems.
Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent
Varför blev jag besviken?
Jag har återigen fått bevisat för mig själv att jag inte är ett speciellt stort fan av böcker berättade i vers. Blev aldrig speciellt intresserad av själva slam-poetry delen, vilket såklart var en stor del utav boken.
Goodreads beskrivning av Red Rising
I live for the dream
that my children will be born free," she says. "That they will be what
they like. That they will own the land their father gave them."
"I live for you," I say sadly.
Eo kisses my cheek. "Then you must live for more."
Darrow
is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of
the future. Like his fellow Reds,  |
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he works all day, believing that he
and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future
generations.
Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.
But
Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity
already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling
parks spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing
more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.
Inspired by a
longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow
sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving
ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of
humanity's overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete
for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and
most brutal of Society's ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to
bring down his enemies... even if it means he has to become one of them
to do so.
Varför blev jag besviken?
Jag var engagerad tills jag var halvvägs genom boken. Efter det kändes det som att det tog mig en halv evighet att läsa klart den här boken, för jag ville bara inte plocka upp den när jag väl lagt ned den. Jag fastnade inte heller för karaktärerna, vilket gjorde att jag inte brydde mig speciellt mycket om vad som hände med dem.
Författare: Stacey Lee
