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The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, Book 5 by Eiji Otsuka
3.0
oh my god please. please give me an overarching plot. im begging you at this point. you can't just drop on me that karatsu's ghost now disappears when sasaki is on her period and then not give me anything else on it for like fifteen chapters. i saw the other ghost girl show up and was like fuck yeah! back to the plot they teased for us like thirty chapters ago! and no!!!!! it does not happen!!!!!! again!!!!!!!!!
anyways it's still a 3 b/c the girl lining up a bunch of pedos on a rollercoaster track and then hitting them w/ the coaster was fucking amazing
anyways it's still a 3 b/c the girl lining up a bunch of pedos on a rollercoaster track and then hitting them w/ the coaster was fucking amazing
At the End of Every Day by Arianna Reiche
1.5
this read a bit like creepypasta/Reddit r/nosleep, but not in the same way 2024 horror darling 'We Used to Live Here' did. I hated 'We Used to Live Here' for pulling from the same generic well all of the reddit stories do, relying on the same tropes and ultimately being generic tripe. this book is not like that, but the same kind of creepypasta feeling crept over me while I read it.
while you could say this is using a pretty overused setting as a base (beloved amusement park actually has a horrifying secret and isn't as nice as everyone thinks!) the way the story goes about all of that is unique. but it's also extremely boring, and by the end I did not care. I finished this book this morning and it is already leaving my brain. it barely made an impact. and that's how it felt the entire time I was reading it - so much effort put into the setting, into having so much theme park history (though much of it is just mirroring Disney) and in the end, what did any of it matter? it just felt like someone padding out their story so they can have more updates to share while they waffle about on what direction to take the ending.
i think the letters between the siblings really pushed it into creepypasta territory for me - they were clunky and felt superfluous. the info in them could have been delivered in a much better way, and by the end they just felt kinda silly to have at the end of every chapter. sure, they connect into the main story, but it barely has anything to do with the main character and only serve to really hammer an element of the story into your head. the reveal is so dragged out that I didn't care once it was "confirmed". the cult is extremely boring. the actual truth behind what is going on felt completely random. just kind of a nothing book honestly, though it is trying to say things about escapism (and possibly "disney adults" in general?). i don't think it comes down super hard on that angle, and seems to really cushion the idea, but it is trying to say SOMETHING. I just don't think it was enough of a focus or done well enough to mean much in the end.
while you could say this is using a pretty overused setting as a base (beloved amusement park actually has a horrifying secret and isn't as nice as everyone thinks!) the way the story goes about all of that is unique. but it's also extremely boring, and by the end I did not care. I finished this book this morning and it is already leaving my brain. it barely made an impact. and that's how it felt the entire time I was reading it - so much effort put into the setting, into having so much theme park history (though much of it is just mirroring Disney) and in the end, what did any of it matter? it just felt like someone padding out their story so they can have more updates to share while they waffle about on what direction to take the ending.
i think the letters between the siblings really pushed it into creepypasta territory for me - they were clunky and felt superfluous. the info in them could have been delivered in a much better way, and by the end they just felt kinda silly to have at the end of every chapter. sure, they connect into the main story, but it barely has anything to do with the main character and only serve to really hammer an element of the story into your head. the reveal is so dragged out that I didn't care once it was "confirmed". the cult is extremely boring. the actual truth behind what is going on felt completely random. just kind of a nothing book honestly, though it is trying to say things about escapism (and possibly "disney adults" in general?). i don't think it comes down super hard on that angle, and seems to really cushion the idea, but it is trying to say SOMETHING. I just don't think it was enough of a focus or done well enough to mean much in the end.
Tender by Beth Hetland
3.5
borrowed this on one of my library's apps b/c i couldn't sleep and needing something to help. i've been itching for good pregnancy horror and this has gotten the closest out of the things i've read lately. it could maybe have gone a bit deeper or pushed it a bit farther, but there's some gruesome shit in this that did make me flinch a bit. do not read if you have issues w/ animal cruelty, and maybe take it a bit cautiously if you have BFRBs as the MC seems to have both tricho- and dermatillomania and this is shown quite a bit throughout.
Fool Night, Vol. 3 by Kasumi Yasuda
5.0
I've been really impressed with this series, and this volume especially! it dives into aspects that I wasn't expecting (mostly political) esp after what happened in the last volume. there's almost always some interesting body horror at play, and this one gets pretty violent near the end. still, it manages to hit emotional beats well without sacrificing the tone of the entire thing. Kamiya feels like a much better written Denji from Chainsaw Man, and I've enjoyed this manga so far much more than I did that one (probably because women aren't constantly being sexualized for kicks the entire time, though this volume does have a random naked woman show up in one panel). i think horror and sci fi manga fans should def check this out, it's doing some cool stuff and I look forward to every volume that releases.
My Dear Detective: Mitsuko's Case Files, Volume 1 by Natsumi Ito
4.0
if I'm being honest, probably more like a 3.5, but that first story hit me hard enough that it earns that extra half star. this is cute and fun, the art is nice, and I do like Mitsuko quite a bit. the pace is a little rushed, and the way Saku falls in with her and is immediately infatuated made me roll my eyes a bit, but so far it's a minor aspect and I like the rest enough that I want to keep reading.