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A review by logarithms
Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo
4.0
oh mein gott.....
this fucked me up alexa play fuyu no hanashi 10 hours
my dumb ass did think this was gonna be scifi. i saw only the small cover thumbnail and thought it was a robot hand....i dont wanna talk about it....(but also oops i like never read the supernatural genre so i feel like any genre/trope references went right over my head)(cover designer has a cool lastname btw shoutout to my grape queen)
i enjoyed it but the pacing was kinda off. and i feel like the murder mystery was too straightforward (not enough moving parts, with only 3 main suspects, and 1 gets eliminated early on. although) so the whole thriller aspect fell kinda flat. although my fave bit of foreshadowing/clues (idk whats it's called) was still 4 stars despite the flaws cause grief stories resonate w me.
oh i liked how they wrote the internalised homophobia/repression. u can tell they've read a lot of theory/memoir/lived experience cause it's almost like an academic study through the main character, v interesting/cool
number of words i had to google cause this author is either being held hostage by thesaurus.com or is in the top 0.00001% for english vocab size: 11 (not that bad but my average is usually like 1, and 8 of them were early on and it had me panicking. what the FUCK is a sepulchral vibe)
PLEASE,,,,STOP having characters litter all th time to show how theyre edgy and acting apathetic/uncaring or whatever....im fine with drugs, substance abuse, speeding, arson, etc but I DRAW THE LINE AT LITTERING. feel free to be self destructive but no junking up the planet #environmentalist #green #relatable
oh also LOL. TIL that tor.com is a sff magazine/publishing company (????) and has NOTHING to do with the onion router....................no wonder it made no sense in my head..............oops
um i also really like the authors playlists. classic emo vibes.
peace ✌
this fucked me up alexa play fuyu no hanashi 10 hours
my dumb ass did think this was gonna be scifi. i saw only the small cover thumbnail and thought it was a robot hand....i dont wanna talk about it....(but also oops i like never read the supernatural genre so i feel like any genre/trope references went right over my head)(cover designer has a cool lastname btw shoutout to my grape queen)
i enjoyed it but the pacing was kinda off. and i feel like the murder mystery was too straightforward (not enough moving parts, with only 3 main suspects, and 1 gets eliminated early on. although
Spoiler
suspect 2 is pretty much immediately eliminated aswell cus it would just be a rlly bad look if one of 2 black characters was the killerSpoiler
when troth said "the bit about the young husband is familiar. people will go far for love, further than you'd expect" like way to expose urself dude. but idk if thats foreshadowing if it happened 70% in loloh i liked how they wrote the internalised homophobia/repression. u can tell they've read a lot of theory/memoir/lived experience cause it's almost like an academic study through the main character, v interesting/cool
number of words i had to google cause this author is either being held hostage by thesaurus.com or is in the top 0.00001% for english vocab size: 11 (not that bad but my average is usually like 1, and 8 of them were early on and it had me panicking. what the FUCK is a sepulchral vibe)
PLEASE,,,,STOP having characters litter all th time to show how theyre edgy and acting apathetic/uncaring or whatever....im fine with drugs, substance abuse, speeding, arson, etc but I DRAW THE LINE AT LITTERING. feel free to be self destructive but no junking up the planet #environmentalist #green #relatable
oh also LOL. TIL that tor.com is a sff magazine/publishing company (????) and has NOTHING to do with the onion router....................no wonder it made no sense in my head..............oops
um i also really like the authors playlists. classic emo vibes.
peace ✌