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326 reviews
Capture the Colors by Elena Berrino
5.0
this was just cute as hell man. best part is the timeline; instalust with a sense of propriety AND injury healing.
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
Did not finish book.
Did not finish book.
dnf’d at 28%. why are we talking about a minor jacking off? i got so apprehensive about going forward that i searched the book for further instances of underage sexual content and there’s more. i don’t want anything to do with that nor is it remotely readable. i wasn’t connecting well with the book in the first place but that’s the final straw.
Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
2.0
AO is no binti and noor is mid at best. i felt a complete disconnect with the story and characters from the get go and never felt like i was exposed to the raw emotions that make okorafor’s stories so impactful. it felt like a mathematical equation, step by step description rather than a spiraling descent into the universes okorafor weaves.
The Underdwelling by Tim Curran
4.0
sometimes a family is a man, a eldritch 250 million year old spider woman, and her hundreds of babies
House of Rot by Danger Slater
5.0
i been a nasty girl, nasty. i been a nasty girl, nasty. i been a nasty girl, nasty. i been a nasty, nasty, nasty. is somebody gonna match my freak? is somebody gonna match my freak? is somebody gonna match my nasty?
Nipponia Nippon by Kazushige Abe
5.0
i cannot even begin to put into words the sheer nauseating, bone chilling terror i felt reading this. no horror novel has upended my mental state as much as this less than 200 page foray into a maybe-hikikomori, fanatic obsessive, toxic masculinity riddled teenage boy's life. at no point can you believe a word haruo says because he's even less reliable as a narrator than holden caulfield. and at no point can you risk not believing him due to the gravity of what he's planning. the precision as we bend back and forth through moments of clarity and fantasy without ever getting a sense that any of it isn't true is so seamless that i had entirely forgotten until the very end that haruo is nowhere near a trustworthy narrator. i've put all of my most sincere effort into this review and it's still not enough because i don't have the words for it.
Braised Pork by An Yu
4.0
this was actually a really good book but it suffered at my hands cause i didn’t wanna read… anything. me not wanting to read had nothing to do with this book lol
The Lucky List by Rachael Lippincott
5.0
shut the fuck up that was so cute. her friends sort of suck ass and i hope she gets the hell away from them lmfaooo but a step at a time i suppose
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
Did not finish book.
Did not finish book.
1.0
dnf at 46%. there isn’t a single thing i can say that the 1 and 2 star reviews haven’t already said. the narrator is so deeply unlikable that i have to commend summers for capturing the pretentiousness of a boomer/gen x cusp egomaniac. what summers did fail to do though was make a character worth reading about. dorothy calls herself a “howling void” and doubles down on her intellectual and sexual superiority, which she won’t stop force feeding her reader without a single allegorical symbol. i am more familiar with dorothy’s vagina than i am with the parts under the hood of the car i’ve owned for the last 12 years. her entire story is direct, but passed through a word salad cheese grater; because of course she needs you to know she’s an excellent author—disregard that a good author makes their books readable rather than a mental exercise in misused, antiquated language. it turns out her “howling void” is nothing more than a complete lack of personality and a somehow boring recounting of her sex life and cannibalism.