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Mamo by Sas Milledge
4.0
this felt like a combo of a ghibli film and a really good LoZ: BoTW side quest, and i really really liked it :D
Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
Did not finish book. Stopped at 64%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 64%.
dnf’ed @ 64%
god it sucks to have a book you’ve been wanting to read for nearly two years fall so unbearably flat.
i was so hyped to start this, but honestly it is a dull, medieval-set fantasy like so many others
i do not care about any of the characters, but the disability rep was my favorite aspect of this. made me happy
god it sucks to have a book you’ve been wanting to read for nearly two years fall so unbearably flat.
i was so hyped to start this, but honestly it is a dull, medieval-set fantasy like so many others
i do not care about any of the characters, but the disability rep was my favorite aspect of this. made me happy
Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company by Alice Driver
5.0
this is really the first book about labor and worker’s rights that ive read, and i thought it was extremely good. it’s ultimately a short read but is packed with information, from why there aren’t many unions in arkansas to the connections between Tyson and prisons. i think the setting in particular hit close to home, ive been in arkansas more times than i can count and lived just across the border of it for most of my life. beautiful state with a lot of problems
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
4.0
feels very Too-Sweet-by-Hozier-coded but maybe thats just me
i really liked this!! the vampires were interesting (and definitely different from typical dracula-style vampires, which i was confused by at first but grew to like), and gonna be honest the romance did not click for me until close to the end but once it did it really did :))
i really liked this!! the vampires were interesting (and definitely different from typical dracula-style vampires, which i was confused by at first but grew to like), and gonna be honest the romance did not click for me until close to the end but once it did it really did :))
Darkly by Marisha Pessl
Did not finish book. Stopped at 45%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 45%.
the board games in this are just fundamentally incredibly confusing and i genuinely do not understand. why was louisiana veda so popular when her games can basically fucking kill people????? when there’s rumors of straight up torture at her factory??? why are so many people enchanted by her still??? also HOW THE FUCK DO THE GAMES WORK???? why are they this interactive?? how does that work?? also frankly who on earth would play a game where the instruction guide is the length of a novel, and how would that game get so popular that crowds are scrambling to buy it??? why do these teenagers love louisiana veda so much when she kinda just seems like a terrible girlboss ceo??? none of this makes any sense at all and i really really dislike it. dnf’ed at 45%.
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
3.75
this was extremely strange but also good??? went in directions i very much didn’t expect, mainly sex with the northern lights
The Palace of Eros by Caro De Robertis
5.0
im a little insufferable rn due to getting into greek mythology thanks to Epic: The Musical (i think everyone in my irl life is getting a little tired of me singing There Are Other Ways). but anyway this was great :)))
the writing style was amazing, for me its the perfect blend of poetic but not frustrating. also the way transness was discussed in this was CHEFS KISS!!! sometimes i’ll get frustrated with transness in historical fiction (even being a trans man myself), cause it can feel very modern, but to me the discussions of gender felt very realistic for the time and setting. im definitely going to read more Greek mythology retellings soon
the writing style was amazing, for me its the perfect blend of poetic but not frustrating. also the way transness was discussed in this was CHEFS KISS!!! sometimes i’ll get frustrated with transness in historical fiction (even being a trans man myself), cause it can feel very modern, but to me the discussions of gender felt very realistic for the time and setting. im definitely going to read more Greek mythology retellings soon
Higher by Roz Alexander
3.0
this was cute and fine, i mainly just felt bored by it. wanted to learn more about Ladino and bees!!! didn’t really care for Maple or Tali or their romance!!!
The Queen: A Novel by Nick Cutter
Did not finish book. Stopped at 2%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 2%.
this is such a cool concept, but honestly bees & wasps are my worst non-existential fear and i can already tell i will not be able to handle this one