Carmen's perspective was more boring than Dani's, and that was the entire book. This book had more action than the first, but the villain was stupid. It dragged on for too long at the beginning, her decision to save her girlfriend or stay with her family. Obviously save your girlfriend! Which would make for a better book!? I still liked the book, but wouldn't recommend it.

This book is extremely dark. I picked it up because of the pretty cover and Japanese setting, but it's mostly depressing. I liked the Zen elements though, since I'm interested in meditation. I skipped the chapters of Ruth's perspective a few times, they weren't as interesting as Nao's.

This book had interesting and encouraging things to say about meditation. Only thing was: it was a "28 day program," which just made me feel bad about not completing the weeks. Sharon assigned 20 minute sessions to start, which is longer than I'd meditated before. It was hard to keep it consistent. I preferred Dan Harris's books, where he encourages people to start with 5 or 10 minutes.

It's fun to watch Komi get better - slowly - at communicating.

This book is mostly depressing. I liked reading what his audition was like for Queer Eye.

I liked it because the main characters were lesbian, but the politics were boring. It did seem like a "first book".

The chapters were summed up by their titles, and they got long. It did help me understand trans people a little better.

It was very funny! I liked the part where Emperor got pantsed.

This book tries to be witty... all the time. Most of the time it's funny, but sometimes it goes over my head. I really like the realistic characters and how all their story lines wrap up in the end.

I don't think there were any boys in this book, ever. It was an interesting take on science fiction. It wrapped up pretty quickly after a lot of action at the end, I would have preferred a more satisfying end.