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Till the Last Beat of My Heart by Louangie Bou-Montes
2.0
yknow if i knew necromancy ran in the family and that my son was an extremely powerful necromancer, and i run a mortuary business where i prepare bodies in my basement, i’d fucking speak up before my son raises the dead by accident so i could teach him how to handle his power
¡Ay, Mija!: My Bilingual Summer in Mexico by Christine Suggs
4.0
this art style grew on me so much over the course of the book, im a sucker for a good blue and orange color scheme and this did that splendidly
i also really like how christine draws environments and backgrounds :D
this book does have quite a bit of spanish spoken (which i think is probably a common complaint about it), but as someone who knows very little spanish, i was generally able to understand from context clues what they were saying (at least the gist of it). didn’t take me out of the story at all, just meant i needed to go a little slower than usual when reading (not a bad thing lmao)
i also really like how christine draws environments and backgrounds :D
this book does have quite a bit of spanish spoken (which i think is probably a common complaint about it), but as someone who knows very little spanish, i was generally able to understand from context clues what they were saying (at least the gist of it). didn’t take me out of the story at all, just meant i needed to go a little slower than usual when reading (not a bad thing lmao)
Sistersong by Lucy Holland
Did not finish book. Stopped at 30%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 30%.
i tried so hard not to dnf this, but i just cant.
i found with this book that even with me only getting to 30 percent, that there is a lot of stuff that could’ve been cut to make the story feel tighter and more compact. including, sadly, Sinne and Riva’s POVs. Keyne was easily the most grounded and fleshed-out main character (although, i can concede that since he and i are both transmasculine maybe i was just drawn to him more because of that). Sinne and Riva felt very similar and from what i can tell are going to get a love-triangle plotline with some prince, and that’s just not something im interested in.
along with this, the line “the only evil i see here is intolerance” feels,,, ridiculous. it feels like a parody.
i do want to try another book by this author, Song of The Huntress, but Sistersong sadly just is not doing it for me
i found with this book that even with me only getting to 30 percent, that there is a lot of stuff that could’ve been cut to make the story feel tighter and more compact. including, sadly, Sinne and Riva’s POVs. Keyne was easily the most grounded and fleshed-out main character (although, i can concede that since he and i are both transmasculine maybe i was just drawn to him more because of that). Sinne and Riva felt very similar and from what i can tell are going to get a love-triangle plotline with some prince, and that’s just not something im interested in.
along with this, the line “the only evil i see here is intolerance” feels,,, ridiculous. it feels like a parody.
i do want to try another book by this author, Song of The Huntress, but Sistersong sadly just is not doing it for me
Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever by Eddie Ndopu
5.0
i usually find jokes in books to be cringe but like this book (even with all the serious topics it covers) has a lot of levity, man eddie ndopu is funny
The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill
5.0
got my kindle much earlier than expected!! this was the first book i read on it and holy shit incredible reading experience both for the lack of eyestrain and for how good this book is
impeccable i love this book it reminds me of basically every crane wives album
impeccable i love this book it reminds me of basically every crane wives album
Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future by Rebecca Scott, Zane McNeill
Did not finish book. Stopped at 38%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 38%.
im finding this book to be a lot more academic than i expected, and the essays so far are hit-or-miss. something i value in nonfiction books is if its approachable for someone who may not know the topic inside and out already, and this is really not
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
3.0
eh not my favorite t kingfisher but it was fine. feel like the fairytale vs weird dynamic was off though, too much of it felt classic fairy tale and the weird scenes were WEIRD and it could’ve been balanced/evened out a bit better
fenris my darling my beloved sad middle aged knight man
fenris my darling my beloved sad middle aged knight man
Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White
Did not finish book. Stopped at 7%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 7%.
this is not a full review of the arc i received! i’m dnf’ing for unrelated reasons, i love this book so far and fully plan to finish and review it in the near future!!
hate when i literally cant fucking use adobe digital editions for arcs cause they have no dark mode option and i just chronically have super dry eyes and it causes physical pain for me to read arcs on ade on my computer with the stupid white background against black letters :/ god this is why i have basically every screen i ever use set to both dark mode (+ warm light) and close to the lowest brightness possible
i plan to get a kindle in december so at that point i’ll actually be able to read arcs again (but i will get a couple arcs ive been approved for that have published on libby so i can use the good ol’ black background)!!
hate when i literally cant fucking use adobe digital editions for arcs cause they have no dark mode option and i just chronically have super dry eyes and it causes physical pain for me to read arcs on ade on my computer with the stupid white background against black letters :/ god this is why i have basically every screen i ever use set to both dark mode (+ warm light) and close to the lowest brightness possible
i plan to get a kindle in december so at that point i’ll actually be able to read arcs again (but i will get a couple arcs ive been approved for that have published on libby so i can use the good ol’ black background)!!