Hi, BookTube, it's Sylwia, and I'm here with three more reviews. I picked up
Sophie Kinsella's Remember Me? Did it have adequate representation? No. I
don't think anything was represented well. I don't think there were any
discussions about diversity or anything that I find important. Did it perpetuate
healthy ideals? At the beginning I was so excited because the protagonist has
crooked teeth and she complains about her teeth not being social norms of
beauty standards but that was very quickly eradicated because she wakes up
from the coma that she's in and she has perfect teeth, so that was a huge
disappointment. I also thought that the emphasis on how important beauty and
image are was so problematic. And it contains cheating and normalizes
cheating which I hate. Did it teach me something or make me think? Well, yes, it
did make me think about how social norms can be problematic and how putting a lot
of emphasis on beauty can be problematic. What was the writing style like? At first
I was extremely engaged but then the story got very boring. I don't think that
has to do with the writing style. I think Sophie Kinsella has an easy writing style
but the plot was definitely boring for me. Are the characters now my all-time
favorites? Absolutely not and I especially want to say that Eric and the
protagonist's mom were totally unbelievable as characters. Was the plot
cleverly written? I thought it was so predictable. It's just like every other
bad-person-turns-good story and I mean that in a negative way. I usually enjoy
redemption arcs or redemption stories but this one was so boring and it
includes, like, embarrassment humor which I know Sophie Kinsella likes to write,
but I don't enjoy it. Did I enjoy reading it? I enjoyed the first 7/8 chapters when
I thought that this was going to be a romance between her and her husband but
when that turns out not to be the case I just hated the entire remainder of the
book. I think I gave it 1 star. Then I finally read The Martian which was
BookTube's favorite book for the longest time and I have to say I don't totally
understand why. Did it have adequate representation? Yes it did. For such a
very small cast, there are people of color, there are women and positions of
power. I thought that race (maybe even sexual orientation don't quote me on
that) but race and gender were handled well. Except that Mark Watney makes some
comments that are very "bro" offensive comments, I guess, so did it
perpetuate healthy ideals? Again, he makes some "bro" comments that I think are a
little unhealthy, but I understand that that's, like, part of his humor. I don't
really want to make excuses: I thought they were unacceptable,
but nothing like terribly offensive. Did it teach me something or make me think?
At the very end there appears to be, like, a cute moral, which I did appreciate, but
it didn't make me think throughout the book about that moral which makes it
feel kind of like a failure. What was the writing style like? So there are very
short chapters and the story very quickly gets to the point of things. It's
concise. But at the same time the book felt never-ending. I just felt like I was
going to be reading this forever. I wasn't bored but I just kind of felt
like "can we get to where we're going!?" and none of the conflicts made me feel any
sort of emotion. I thought that the movie handled conflict better. Are the
characters now my all-time favorites? No. Unlike everybody else, I don't think
Mark Watney is charming. I enjoyed him a lot more in the movie than I did in the
book. Was the plot cleverly written? I don't really think so. I think the plot
progressed in a very simple ABC fashion. It was the little details of how Mark
does the things that he does that were, I guess, interesting, but not that much. Did
I enjoy reading it? Not really. I also read Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner. Did
it have adequate representation? This book is praised for being fat positive
because it has a fat protagonist who doesn't lose weight and does exist in
her fatness, however there's a lot of negative commentary about being fat from
everyone else around her, so how is that fat positive? I really didn't like it. Did
it perpetuate healthy ideals? I think it could have done a lot more and it failed.
It didn't reach its potential. Did it teach me something or make me think? No
it didn't. What was the writing style like? I
thought it was unengaging and there was a lot of unnecessary scenes that didn't
seem to make sense. This read almost like a television show in which the episodes
didn't line up one after the other. It was almost like following the same
protagonist in completely different timelines or just, like, putting her in
random scenarios. I thought that was very unskillful and I'm surprised
by how much hype this book has had. Are the characters now my all-time favorites?
Absolutely not. They're totally forgettable and some of
them don't make sense, for example she just kind of becomes best friends with a
famous model or actress and it just doesn't make sense for the story. Was the
plot cleverly written? Again, there's a lot of unnecessary information. There was
a lot of analysis of her and I think how she was growing up in her family, if I
remember that correctly. So maybe if you like family sagas you might enjoy this,
but I felt like it was a lot of buildup with very little reward. Did I enjoy
reading it? Absolutely not. I think I gave it 1 star. Come talk to me in the comments!
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