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It's time for mummies, dammit.
It's time for mummies. Great book actually made me laugh audibly in the middle of work.
I got some weird looks from people but totally worth it for this delightful book. Keep up the good work on the podcast Read it and Weep and I look forward to another book some day. What was one of the most memorable moments of Unwrap My Heart? Very cleverly playing with the tropes without fully falling into the horror genre. This novel has a great deal of cute moments in this short novel, but they all wink knowingly at how those moments are often poorly executed in works of teen romance, while not crossing the line into attacking everything this book is built on.
Personally, the moments with the father made me laugh throughout the book. I listened to it at 1. This story was so finally and silly!
Extremely meta and self referential. I love all the fun the author's had poking fun at the whole genre.
The answer to both questions is a resounding "yes," and if you've forgotten what the first question even was, let me reiterate: I loved every page of this wonderful little book. The voice of Unwrap My Heart is reminiscent of the playful, sarcastic tone of a Read It and Weep episode, and I was pleased to discover that the authors' skill at podcasting is matched by a skill for novel-writing.
The book has a coherent, satisfying, and well-paced plot. The prose is smooth. The jokes come frequently enough to keep you chuckling, but not so thick as to take you out of the story, or to turn it into a hollow farce.
Against all odds, a couple of podcasters decided to base their first novel on an off-hand joke from the show, and somehow managed to create a real page turner. The one area where the book falls short is in the characters. While they are undeniably interesting, for the most part they aren't terribly engaging. Considering the book's core purpose—to satirize the genre and make a mockery of fantasy writers tapping ever-more-outlandish creatures for teenage girls to have a problematic romance with—it's hard to fault the authors for this. But I will fault them, both because they chose their premise and now must live with it, and because it turns out I'm kind of a jerk.
The great shortcoming in the characters is that, for the most part, they're simply not characters.
Even if he magically could, the bandages would prevent him from using his engorged mummy dong. Even if they didn't, the moisture would destroy his careful preservation. Also we needed to save something for the next book. Oh, so there's a sequel? Hopefully not ever, but we also said we wouldn't write this book and look where that got us. Where did that get us? A weird FAQ section that is really just an imagined dialogue with a strawman. What people are saying "This book is a parody, and comedy, but the authors are very conscious about solving the problems that a lot of YA books have, namely, all the problematic guilt and body-shaming under-and-overtones, Friendzone Problems, frustrating parental communication issues, and lack of cats.
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Similarly, I love the dream epilogue at the end and how it gives Sofia agency. That's what I thought. Which seems like such an honest thing for a YA protagonist to think about. The Fast and the Frozen. Dec 12, Anna rated it it was amazing Shelves:
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