Brutal Precious by Sara Wolf
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Just casually spiraling out of control from how much this book means to me
That’s right motherfuckers there’s a third book: Isis Blake is back and she gonna live her best life out of spite
“I’m a freshmen. Undecided. Nuclear Thermophysics. Culinary Arts. Depends on how I feel when I wake up that day.”
She is off to college and as a current student I definitely felt a connection on the transition period. Shes in a new place away from her defining family. Shes been hurt and gone through so much shit and it has honestly changed her
“So I just kept it. A braver Isis would’ve used it. A not-guilty Isis would’ve used it.”
But that’s not her anymore, and she can’t pretend to be.
“But Sophia was her redemption, her idol, her friend. If I lost all three of those, I’d be broken, too.”
Goddamn it my heart
Finally, the slow burn romance is working up to something…but its not just some happy lala land. But this book wasn’t all existential crisis! It was pretty fucking funny too
The classic struggle of college stress…
“My life is over.”
I get up and collapse next to her on the bed.
“Finally. Time to die.”
Making new relationships…
“She puffs out her cheeks and stands. “Anyway, I like you but you’re ruining my life. Bye.”
BITCH MEEEEEEE
The parties, this one right here is for all the millenials in the crowd….
“Is this just…” I pause and listen to the speakers. “Is this just someone saying ‘ass’ on repeat?”
Kieran stops, looks up, and starts laughing. “Holy shit, you’re right. What’s happened to music?”
Jack Hunter the asshole is here too but his POV has developed and become more open about his feelings. Seeing beneath the whole ice prince bullshit
“I’m broken, shattered like a mirror of lies. She would try to pick up my pieces and only cut her delicate fingers on them”
And i didnt cry once…
As predicted, there was more plot development that was outside of college…hint hint mafia shit…and it was dark and fucking awesome. I mean really who just wants ti read about college life but these two psycopaths hate/love while mafia and like damn boi
“She shudders, hugging herself and laughing harder. “I’m nobody important.”
You are the sun, I try to say”
MY HEARTTT GODDAMN IT JACK TELL HER HOW YOU FUCKING FEELL I CANT TAKE THIS
Isis also feels hurt and depressed and is open about fears that I know myself and many others feel ourselves
“Every second I watch them touch is every second further the darkness drills into my head. No one will ever look at me like that. No one will feel that deeply for me. No one will treat me that tenderly. No one will ever love me like that.”
I literarlly need this book to be less relatable because it is literarlly ridicous how much of myself I saw on these pages, it physically hurts feeling my own inner thoughts written out
“I see what you mean now,” She says. “Someone like you, so vibrant and funny, is rarely tired. It must be so strange for you when you are.”
Sometimes you just feel so exhausted and tired of being so vibrant for everyone else. You know how you should feel or act or be, but you just can’t right now.
Overall I’m so happy the sequel andthis finale lived up to its height and honestly I enjoyed the maturity and situations more than the first book with high school. And with that I’ll leave you with one last quote cuz (as you can tell) I really loved this book’s writing style and just had so so many good lines and topics
“and I hate myself, I hate who I used to be and I hate who I’m trying to be and the people I loved betrayed me, and I betrayed myself, but I hid it away instead of teling, telling somebody, anybody….”
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