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I Wrapped My Entire TBR & Let a Wheel Decide What I Read πŸ«£πŸ“– September TBR Challenge

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Loved

The writing was incredible. It was exceptional. It made me lose myself in the story and also feel for these characters and feel like these kids are my kids or that I grew up with these kids because you're literally following like three different generations of a family and they start to feel like your own and that's horrible because this family goes through so much.

Loved

The House of the Dead was also such an incredible reading experience because not only did I buddy readad this with two of my friends, but this has to be one of the most semi-autobiographical novels that Dostki ever wrote because Dstioski himself, he spent 10 years in a Siberian prison. And knowing that so much of this book comes from Dostki's own memories, it just makes things hit even harder.

Loved

Something that I love about this book is the fact that it focuses more on the psychology behind people being trapped in this town without being prepared for it. And it was just such an incredible ride.

Mixed

And it was so funny because the writing is so bad that when we get to the scene of that person dying, I literally scoffed because it's not like I flat out laughed out loud because it's not a funny moment, but it's the delivery of the news, the writing of the entire scene was so not well done that when I read it, I just had to laugh.