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hustlinfuzz's Reviews (81)
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The characters are more fleshed out in this volume, and we are introduced to their female girlfriends counterparts. It's good. A little heavy on the girlfriends, especially if they are meant to be side characters moving forward, but I can tell a real story is actually forming here.
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Bluhhhh, this was just super cute.
This book (series) is about a polycule consisting of four guys. This first book is how all four of them came to be in the relationship and how their dynamics with one another. It was kind of nice to see them communicating and setting boundaries with one another about their relationship. Everyone in the relationship was an equal participant, and they made their feelings clear on what they wanted out of the relationship.
Slice of life, silly, low-stakes little vignettes into their relationship.
This book (series) is about a polycule consisting of four guys. This first book is how all four of them came to be in the relationship and how their dynamics with one another. It was kind of nice to see them communicating and setting boundaries with one another about their relationship. Everyone in the relationship was an equal participant, and they made their feelings clear on what they wanted out of the relationship.
Slice of life, silly, low-stakes little vignettes into their relationship.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcohol
Minor: Vomit
Marked as DNF for now. I will try again at some point to get through this behemoth of a book— there wasn’t anything particularly wrong, I just got busy and can’t find the time to open a physical book right now.
Marking Little Women as DNF for now. I feel like, even though the reading is easy, the story just crawls at a snail's pace and is generally uninteresting to me.
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I had to finally shelve this one as DNF. What I did read of it was as painful and arduous as pulling teeth. I may try again to get through it at a later date, but I let my library loan lapse, and I can’t be bothered right now to suffer through it any longer.
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EDIT: I finally decided to give this one another try. The beef I had with this book started to bother me, especially after I kept encountering it front and center in the romance section of the bookstores I would peruse. There was something about the beginning of this book- I don't know why it went so poorly for me the first time. Maybe it was my reluctance to read glorified fan fiction about the American political system. It just felt like adding insult to injury by making the president a woman with a blended family and a divorce history, the first kids biracial and queer, Hah, okay. There was some kind of invisible threshold of insufferability that I had to pass for this book actually to be kind of good. And it was... kind of good.
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EDIT: I finally decided to give this one another try. The beef I had with this book started to bother me, especially after I kept encountering it front and center in the romance section of the bookstores I would peruse. There was something about the beginning of this book- I don't know why it went so poorly for me the first time. Maybe it was my reluctance to read glorified fan fiction about the American political system. It just felt like adding insult to injury by making the president a woman with a blended family and a divorce history, the first kids biracial and queer, Hah, okay. There was some kind of invisible threshold of insufferability that I had to pass for this book actually to be kind of good. And it was... kind of good.
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The cover of this book really caught my eye. And I waited a really long time for it to become available to me from my local library. I didn't know anything about the premise going in, didn't even read the synopsis, but I think that speaks volumes to the beautiful art style. It was, in fact, a gorgeous book.
I will say I enjoyed the story, and I loved the relationship between the two main characters, Oberon and Kon. But I was so caught up in the "will they, won't they" that some of the actual story got a little lost on me. I just don’t really read a lot of sci-fi. Some of the terminology and world-building can get confusing, and this is just a personal point I make, just in general. It was one of my main gripes with another sci-fi graphic novel I read earlier this year, Project Nought.
I will say I enjoyed the story, and I loved the relationship between the two main characters, Oberon and Kon. But I was so caught up in the "will they, won't they" that some of the actual story got a little lost on me. I just don’t really read a lot of sci-fi. Some of the terminology and world-building can get confusing, and this is just a personal point I make, just in general. It was one of my main gripes with another sci-fi graphic novel I read earlier this year, Project Nought.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This is so fucked up.
I don't trust a book that has a dog on the cover. I think there is a lesson that we all learn at some point in life, the first time you pick up a book with a cute dog on the cover. You don't pick up any more books with a dog on the cover. It's a story we all know the ending to. And the ending sucks, and it hurts.
I knew, going into this book, what the ending would be.
However, my review is not about the ending of this book, but rather the absolutely crazy whiplash I experienced from the wild journey it took me on. I have not seen the movie adaptation of this book, and I barely even read the back cover to discover the synopsis. I just felt some big emotions after finishing The Song of Achilles and wanted to continue my mental anguish with a book with a dog on the cover. Mental anguish was achieved. Extended from my previous sufferings.
I can not recommend this book enough.
I don't trust a book that has a dog on the cover. I think there is a lesson that we all learn at some point in life, the first time you pick up a book with a cute dog on the cover. You don't pick up any more books with a dog on the cover. It's a story we all know the ending to. And the ending sucks, and it hurts.
I knew, going into this book, what the ending would be.
However, my review is not about the ending of this book, but rather the absolutely crazy whiplash I experienced from the wild journey it took me on. I have not seen the movie adaptation of this book, and I barely even read the back cover to discover the synopsis. I just felt some big emotions after finishing The Song of Achilles and wanted to continue my mental anguish with a book with a dog on the cover. Mental anguish was achieved. Extended from my previous sufferings.
I can not recommend this book enough.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Cancer
Moderate: Death, Sexual assault
Maybe this book was a little too abstract for me. I wanted to like it. I saw the themes of grief and loss, and I wanted to get it so badly. I was more confused than anything. I’ll try to pick it up again at some point. My library loan is about to lapse, and I just can’t force myself to get through it.
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
damn.