Review: The Last Days of Jack Sparks

The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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Actual Rating: 3.8 stars
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This is one of the most disconcerting read I've had in my life. (I think I might be starting to develop a knack for buying very disturbing books on my Kobo.) It has all the elements to make the story morbid, unnerving, and scary, but with a fucked-up (but rather predictable) twist that got hard to follow and raised a lot of questions towards the end. (view spoiler)[That part revealing Jack as the Camera Boy (hide spoiler)] was predictable, the rest of the twists were truly crazy surprises.

Review: A Tale for the Time Being

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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Actual Rating: 4.5 stars
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This book is one of the most well though-out and well researched book I've read. Ozeki expertly combined quantum mechanics and fiction in one heartbreaking tale. I have to be honest, I'd classify this as a painful read. Looking at the cover, you'd think it's a happy story. It's really not. If you're in this stage in you life where everything is hopeless, reading this might be triggering. The majority of the book is morbid, but beautifully so. If you do get to the last parts of the story, you would find yourself--oddly enough--lifted, as if you hadn't been reading a few hundreds of pages of loneliness, bullying, death, and suicide.