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326 reviews
Daisy Fields by Maki Matsui
2.0
i love a book about nothing but what was the fucking point? it’s manic pixie dream girl circle jerk except the girl is clearly struggling with mental health or PTSD and yet we never get past the dream girl part of it. where was the nuance????
The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
3.0
anisa of the centre (handshake emoji) sean of feed them silence: being deeply unlikable yet compelling characters driven by their desire to achieve greatness coming face to face with the terms of reality in which they are willing to use people as transactional exchanges to meet their ends.
The Genius Plague by David Walton
Did not finish book.
Did not finish book.
dnf at 30%. at around 20% i noticed i was skim reading. the book's premise is supposed to be about some super scifi fungus, but the infected brother takes a backseat to the NSA agent brother. and i mean BACKSEAT; like paul is in the trunk of a pacifica mini-van while neil goes 20mph in a 70. neil is a shallow, self-entitled dumbass who spends all of his time either complimenting his ingenuity, comparing himself to paul who is now smarter than him due to fungus, or doubting the intelligence of female NSA collaborators more than 10 years his senior. i wanted to care, i wanted to hear about the fungus. but this is just about neil getting to play centerfold in everyone else's lives.
Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories by Amparo Ortiz, Yamile Saied Méndez
2.0
i really enjoyed a few of the stories but overall didn’t enjoy the collection… and i don’t know whose fault it is. after a while the stories all being back to back made them feel formulaic or iterative. they began to be less and less impactful as the book went on because of my continued progressing disinterest.
Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
2.0
i really stopped caring around page 120, which sucks considering there’s 385 pages.
The Mermaid from Jeju by Sumi Hahn
5.0
“being possessed is like being loved.” the jeju april 3rd incident feels buried under decades of rewritten history, trauma avoidance, and the commercialization of jeju as a tourist destination. “the mermaid from jeju” begs us to not forget it.
Record of a Night too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami
2.0
an endless absurdist spiral into incoherency as we dance the lines between stories about bodily autonomy, control, death, and grief.
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha
2.0
this collection wasn’t for me. it was cyclic, disjointed, and scattered. it didn’t translate for me in a way i could connect with the poems. the best of the best were all in the beginning, but for my tastes it slowly devolved.
Lured by the Dusk by Angela J. Ford
4.0
i don’t remember there being this much smut in the book of exodus