Senza nuvole. Solitaire

Hi! I highly recommend you check out the content warnings before reading this book: aliceoseman.com/content-warnings As of August 2020, I am currently in the process of making editorial changes to SOLITAIRE. *** This is my first published book! I wrote it in 2012 when I was seventeen. It features: - a p Leggi tutto

“But books–they’re different. When you watch a film, you’re sort of an outsider looking in. With a book–you’re right there. You are inside. You are the main character.” 4.5/5 stars I first heard about Solitaire on Tumblr. I've been following Alice Oseman ever since and I desperately wanted to read her Leggi tutto

This book was pretty damn bad, but my review for it was also hot rambling garbage. Let me just be succinct: if you're looking to read the Oseman backlog, don't bother with this one. It's not worth it.

Just because someone smiles doesn’t mean that they’re happy. This isn’t a book about happy people. I don’t even think this book was made for happy people, they would dislike it, say everything inside this book is utter bullshit. But it isn’t. It’s the absolute truth. This book broke me, I think I’m re Leggi tutto

So you are saying she wrote it when she was 17

Sometimes I think Alice Oseman books have captured a part of my soul that nothing else has managed to describe in exactly the right words. Her stories are streams of consciousness, explorations of identity, odes to teenage senescence. Dedicated to kids who have no idea who they are but are figuring

[2022 PSA:] I READ THIS BOOK IN 2017, IN AN OLD PAPERBACK COPY THAT DID NOT HAVE TRIGGER WARNINGS! My review is based on that edition. I have no idea of the changes that have been made recently. I'm glad for trigger warnings having been added and any potential edits that have been made. Take this rev Leggi tutto

Wow, what a mess. I liked Tori and her friendship with Michael, but what was this book about? Friendship? Love? Family? Bullying? Depression? Or was it a thriller? I honestly don't know. I'm confused af.

I’m on BookTube now! =) ”And who are you, Victoria Spring?”I can’t think of anything to say because that is what my answer would be really. Nothing. I am a vacuum. I am a void. I am nothing. Trigger warnings: (view spoiler) [depression, self-harm, eating disorder, arson, bullying (on page), suicide attempt (implied) (hide spoiler)] Leggi tutto