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Spy x Family, Vol. 13 by Tatsuya Endo
4.25
Read for the Orilium Spring Equinox 2025 prompt: Alchemy • All CAPITALS book title
Spy family volumes are always a really great time, fun and lighthearted while also having compelling characters and overarching plotlines. Hell yes. This volume was no exception, it's great to see relationships develop and Yuri being like 'damn I wish Loid was Twilight so I had an excuse to arrest/kill him' is iconic.
Spy family volumes are always a really great time, fun and lighthearted while also having compelling characters and overarching plotlines. Hell yes. This volume was no exception, it's great to see relationships develop and Yuri being like 'damn I wish Loid was Twilight so I had an excuse to arrest/kill him' is iconic.
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
4.0
Read for the Orilium Spring Readathon 2025 Prompt: Demonology • Book with a missing person
I have had this trilogy on my shelves for a long-ass time, and in the spirit of this year being a year of me finally reading the completed series I own (and because it's the only book I have with a missing person plotline) I have finally started reading it! Partially through the audiobook on spotify, and partially with my own goddamn eyeballs.
As is tradition, I had no bloody idea what this was about other than a mother looking for her daughter, second person perspective for at least part of it and eating rocks. I was not disappointed in these respects. I liked the way the three perspectives were written, and wove together towards the end in a fun way. The world-building is interesting as hell and I definitely want to know what happens next. This did feel like an extended prologue to the main event of whatever the hell happens next, but I am not mad about it at all.
I have had this trilogy on my shelves for a long-ass time, and in the spirit of this year being a year of me finally reading the completed series I own (and because it's the only book I have with a missing person plotline) I have finally started reading it! Partially through the audiobook on spotify, and partially with my own goddamn eyeballs.
As is tradition, I had no bloody idea what this was about other than a mother looking for her daughter, second person perspective for at least part of it and eating rocks. I was not disappointed in these respects. I liked the way the three perspectives were written, and wove together towards the end in a fun way. The world-building is interesting as hell and I definitely want to know what happens next. This did feel like an extended prologue to the main event of whatever the hell happens next, but I am not mad about it at all.
Dead Cowpokes Don't Wrangle: A Weird West Anthology by TK Jameson, Magnus Thorne, Claude Hamesh, Olive J. Kelley, Rain Corbyn, Sirius, Morgan Dante, A.A. Fairview, Tyler Battaglia, Shane Reid, mars adler, Wren V. Lothaire, H.S. Wolfe
4.0
I absolutely love Mars Adler's work and couldn't say no to this cowboy horny horror anthology curated by them. A lot of these didn't hit for me, or were just pretty good.
My favourite three were Red as Blood, Black as Tar by Mars Adler, The Birth of a Whisper by Olive J Kelley and Membrane by H.S. Wolfe. It feels good that the two short stories written by the curators were some of my favourites.
It also feels worth mentioning that I am currently halfway through my first play-through of Red Dead Redemption 2 so I am very much in the yee-haw spirit at the moment.
My favourite three were Red as Blood, Black as Tar by Mars Adler, The Birth of a Whisper by Olive J Kelley and Membrane by H.S. Wolfe. It feels good that the two short stories written by the curators were some of my favourites.
It also feels worth mentioning that I am currently halfway through my first play-through of Red Dead Redemption 2 so I am very much in the yee-haw spirit at the moment.
Sunrise On The Reaping by Suzanne Collins
5.0
I was feeling left out of all the people talking about this - and was being pestered by Audible about getting three months for cheap so fuck it. I am *very* glad that I did end up picking this up because ouchies Haymitch oh my goddd - getting to see a bunch of people from the original series before The Extreme Trauma and stuff was great. The whole message of this was excellent, the true enemy is the Capitol and they don't get to have your suffering or life as entertainment. Ah. Perfection. Feels very fitting as a follow-up to Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and the whole debacle of people thirsting over Snow/not seeming to quite understand who the real enemies were (it's the authoritarian government and the people who fall into it to gain power and control!)
Rouge by Mona Awad
4.25
This was weird and whimsical in a very fun way. I both liked, and sometimes felt it was a tad annoying, the narrative style of this. Particularly when words became vague and lost as Belle progressed in her Beauty Journey.
I was surprisingly touched by the ending, I wasn't entirely sure what would happen but I really liked how things panned out and thought it was bittersweet in just the right way. This is a book that feels very unreal, and really adds to my associations with Tom Cruise in a new way, and I think I had a good time with it.
I was surprisingly touched by the ending, I wasn't entirely sure what would happen but I really liked how things panned out and thought it was bittersweet in just the right way. This is a book that feels very unreal, and really adds to my associations with Tom Cruise in a new way, and I think I had a good time with it.
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
4.0
Read for the 2025 Buzzword Cover March Prompt: Cover featuring BOOKS
This was a fun, lighthearted adventure and I had a good time. The world of Emily and Wendel is very whimsical and entertaining, and I do appreciate sprinkling in some cozier fantasy into my literary diet. I will admit, I expected not to find this mindblowing (I think the first book was definitely the best), but even though it didn't blow me away and I didn't feel any Big Emotions, this was exactly what I wanted it to be. A comforting, chill read. Huzzah!
This was a fun, lighthearted adventure and I had a good time. The world of Emily and Wendel is very whimsical and entertaining, and I do appreciate sprinkling in some cozier fantasy into my literary diet. I will admit, I expected not to find this mindblowing (I think the first book was definitely the best), but even though it didn't blow me away and I didn't feel any Big Emotions, this was exactly what I wanted it to be. A comforting, chill read. Huzzah!
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Read for ATS2519 - Children's and young adult literature
I was obsessed with with 2003 live action film of this as a child, and I obviously read this back in the day.
I was obsessed with with 2003 live action film of this as a child, and I obviously read this back in the day.
The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence
Did not finish book. Stopped at 37%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 37%.
I was planning on reading this for the 2025 Buzzword Cover March Prompt: Cover featuring BOOKS but alas.
I very much wanted to enjoy this, and in theory I expected to. Books and monsters and stuff. But no, I in fact did not enjoy the couple hundred pages I read of this very much at all. The writing felt a bit off, sentences getting lost in themselves and everything feeling weirdly incomprehensible. I didn't particularly care about any of the characters and I was sick of being told the same pieces of information over and over again. Very unfortunate.
I very much wanted to enjoy this, and in theory I expected to. Books and monsters and stuff. But no, I in fact did not enjoy the couple hundred pages I read of this very much at all. The writing felt a bit off, sentences getting lost in themselves and everything feeling weirdly incomprehensible. I didn't particularly care about any of the characters and I was sick of being told the same pieces of information over and over again. Very unfortunate.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Read for ATS2519 - Children's and young adult literature
This was a whimsical little ride, and I can see some critiques of the previous ideas about what children should be taught and how they should be raised (taught only either moral stories or facts about the world, and treated rather poorly). Anyways, this was read. Wahoo!
This was a whimsical little ride, and I can see some critiques of the previous ideas about what children should be taught and how they should be raised (taught only either moral stories or facts about the world, and treated rather poorly). Anyways, this was read. Wahoo!
The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
3.5
Hmmmm, I feel rather torn about this.
I really liked getting to finally meet Sabetha, and see the Gentleman Bastard's get into shenanigans in the past timeline but goddamn. This series is really evolving into something I just can't quite find myself to care about. The reveals thatLocke is potentially a reincarnated bondsmage and the prophecy that he will lose a key, a crown and a child and the whole thing with the Falconer coming back and weird magi politics uggh is just ... I don't think this series is going in the direction I wanted, or perhaps it's more accurate that in general I am not in this for the long haul. I don't know really, just that this felt rather underwhelming and confusing and not in keeping with the tone of the first two books.
I am curious if in a few years/when book four comes out I will feel a desire to reread these and in doing so will have a better time and pay attention to the right things knowing what is in store a bit more. We shall see. I read another review that said this feels like it's gone high fantasy despite the series starting out as more fun thievery-in-a-fantasy-setting vibes and I feel like that's what has turned me off in this. Things are getting complicated and the tone has changed a lot and I just don't understand the world enough or care about the characters enough to be invested in all that. Still, a very fun ride and I might give the fourth book a go when it eventually comes out.
I did enjoy seeing Locke become a completely flustered mess around Sabetha, nothing better than a man who is down bad for a hot competent lady.
I really liked getting to finally meet Sabetha, and see the Gentleman Bastard's get into shenanigans in the past timeline but goddamn. This series is really evolving into something I just can't quite find myself to care about. The reveals that
I am curious if in a few years/when book four comes out I will feel a desire to reread these and in doing so will have a better time and pay attention to the right things knowing what is in store a bit more. We shall see. I read another review that said this feels like it's gone high fantasy despite the series starting out as more fun thievery-in-a-fantasy-setting vibes and I feel like that's what has turned me off in this. Things are getting complicated and the tone has changed a lot and I just don't understand the world enough or care about the characters enough to be invested in all that. Still, a very fun ride and I might give the fourth book a go when it eventually comes out.
I did enjoy seeing Locke become a completely flustered mess around Sabetha, nothing better than a man who is down bad for a hot competent lady.