[Review contains spoilers] This book killed me. I've never struggled so hard with reading a book. I already bought it so abandoning it wasn't possible for me. And I was hoping it would get better. I have to preface this by saying I LOVED the TV Show and that's why I wanted to read the books in the first place. But let me tell you: The show took everything that was good and interesting from the books and made it better and everything that was shit they just cut out, good for them! Don't read this book, especially if you're a woman, you will get annoyed to no end, believe me. Just watch the TV show. Onto the book... Let's start with the positives! I LOVE "The Beast" what an interesting villain, though again the TV show did him better, especially with the moth design. The book has a... uh... tree branch. Unfortunately he only appeared shortly in the beginning and at the end. But the end fight was really good and Alice redeemed herself in my eyes, though I'm still flabbergasted that after everything she took Quentin back... Girl... Love yourself. Anyways, that was all. Now onto everything else... I hate Quentin. And I'm sure that's not a controversial take, but I don't think it's Quentin's fault. TV Quentin was fine and book Quentin IS relatable at times especially when it comes to his depression, BUT... The absolute obsession with tits is ridiculous. This man mentions breasts at the weirdest fucking times and I'm 98% sure this is not a Quentin trait, this is an author trait. Believe me, you'll get an eye for this, the classic game of: The authors barely disguised fetish. When Quentin had to talk about how Alice's mothers breast popped out of her shirt and she tucked it back in............ I died. I closed the book and just wanted to be done with it! I have never taken so long to read a book, but this author mentions tits at an alarming frequency and it took me out of the book every time. And please don't try to cope for the author by saying "waah it's an ADULT book and Quentin is a man so it's just realiiistic". Yeah, yeah. Miss me with that bullshit. Quentin is also incredibly hypocritical and maybe that trait was more deliberate but annoying nonetheless. He was the first one to cheat but whinged about Alice sleeping with Penny like a damn toddler. And then after the fight where he called her a little mouse and whatnot he KISSES HER LMFAO? And the book has the audacity to cut away from the scene and never speak of it again. So Quentin behaves like a goddamn incel and Alice takes him back off screen. Alice did surprise me when she stood her ground and called Quentin a pussy lol and then beat him up. Alice quickly rose from a spineless pick me to a formidable foe, especially at the end with her fight against The Beast. Kind of funny how Alice is a much better and more interesting character than Quentin. I also have to mention the pacing was somehow... off for me? It was very slow in the beginning and not much happened and I was wondering damn when do we get into the actual story. About halfway into the book we finally slowly got into it, THANK YOU PENNY. Also the antarctica incident...... Alice and Quentin as foxes having their first time? Which was kind of not really consensual since they were animals with base instincts... and afterwards Alice just says "You deserve nice things to happen to you, Q". GIRL WHAT DO YOU MEAN. CAN WE PLEASE TALK THIS OUT? No? Just... Gonna ignore it... Like everything else. All I'm saying is: Quentin gives big incel vibes, Alice deserves better, Eliot and Janet were criminally underused, and I shudder to think what poor Julia will go through in the next book. I'm warning you Quentin, leave Julia alone with your creepy little hands.

Ich liebe die Serie von Syfy und wollte deswegen unbedingt auch die Bücher lesen. Leider für mich der eher untypische Fall von "die Serie ist besser als das Buch". Die Charaktere und auch Storyteile sind teilweise komplett unterschiedlich zur Verfilmung und LEIDER ist das gesamte Buch aus Quentins Sicht geschrieben.. Manchmal hätte ich mir den Perspektivwechsel wie in der Serie gewünscht, da Quentin auch dort der für mich unbeliebteste Charakter war. Es hat Längen und sehr viel Depressivität/Melancholie wo in der Serie deutlich mehr Witz zu finden ist. Was wahrscheinlich auch Quentins Sicht zu schulden ist. Naja, den Rest werd ich wohl auch noch lesen - aber so schnell wird das wohl nicht passieren. Ich brauch ne Pause.

I have no idea what to do with this or if i want to read the next one in the series. It had an interesting concept (i liked the idea of the story and how it all came together in the end), but i could not warm up to the characters at all. Other than Quentin, who was a bit too depressed for me to enjoy it, i did not feel anything for them. It makes it hard to enjoy a book if you are not emotionally invested. Still, i could not stop reading it, just because i wanted to know where the story would go. This book was lacking something for me, maybe humor or maybe more emotions from the main character other than how he does not like his life.

I don't even know how to start... ☁️- i started the show before I heard about the books. Liking the show I ordered the series of course. I just have to hope the second and third book are more exciting. ☁️- i thought this particular book was being dragged on. So much happened but yet absolutely nothing happened. Quentin was a whiny bitch at most times especially in the 3rd out of the four book parts. And it was just depressing. His thoughts weren't interesting in the slightest. I would rather read it out of Eliots lr Alices perspective. They have something to tell or at least seem to have more of a personality. ☁️- the ending of the book left me deeply unsatisfied as well. Just when I thought it was starting to becone exciting the last Chapter ripped it all off for me again. The last scenes were just weird and senseless to me. They didn't make me excited for the sequel. ....I will still give the other two books a shot as I already own them now but I would not recommend anybody to read them. If you're interested in the Storyline you might much rather wanna watch the Show because the few twists and exciting moments the book provides just aren't worth the nearly 500 words the book contains.