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Tsundoku

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Joined 3 years, 6 months ago

Aspiring Writer, Voracious Reader, Crocheter of many things, Very Autistic

(Pronouns: they / them) Mainly reads: Young Adult (contemporary, sci-fi or fantasy), Japanese Literature, Romance, and Fantasy / Sci-fi for adults

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Infinity son (Hardcover, 2020, HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers) 4 stars

Growing up in New York, brothers Emil and Brighton always idolized the Spell Walkers—a vigilante …

Ends like a first book in a YA series

4 stars

I'm not really sure what to say about this. It's perfectly fine.

There's some argument about if killing is okay, what responsibility is.

There's a fascist politician using typical right-wing campaign tactics, just with magic and magical creatures.

There are stakes, they are raised.

You get a taste of the world you're in. It's more that the protagonists (Emil and Brighton) have had more of a taste of the magical than say, Potter. A bit of magic with your iPhone if you will. Guns are replaced with Wands, and Wands hold charges much in a way a gun holds rounds.

It's worth saying, this book is an analogy for your identity being inherently political.

I will read the next one, probably this month, as there's no wait for this series, which troubles me.

It's not like I'd say it's literally the best fantasy I've ever read, but it's fine. It's …

Can't Even (2020, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) 4 stars

An incendiary examination of burnout in millennials—the cultural shifts that got us here, the pressures …

Give to Boomers everywhere

4 stars

It's a fine book based off a fine article, but you have to keep in mind:

If you come into the book expecting self-help solutions, you will be inevitably disappointed. This is NOT a self-help book.

This is a book about a societal problem and the many shapes it takes. The whole point of it is you yourself can only do so much to help yourself, it's how we run things that needs to be fixed.

The book may be better for Boomers or Gen X, instead of Millennials, because it could help them understand why things suck so much for Millennials and Zoomers. It explains why the solutions we were taught by our parents do not work anymore.

I appreciate the author trying to approach this from multiple non-white perspectives.

I found the afterword comparing the US to Japan very interesting (because being a bit of a weeb I …

Six of Crows (Hardcover, 2015, Henry Holt and Co.) 5 stars

BOOK ONE of the Six of Crows Duology

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade …

Fantasy Heist Funtimes

5 stars

It's my understanding this is a spin-off of another series set in the same world. I haven't read those books yet but I intend to. Anyway, rating is 5 stars because I felt like its sequel kept the promises of the first.

Let Kaz Brekker pick the lock of your heart.

Concrete Rose (Hardcover, 2021, Balzer + Bray) 5 stars

If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care …

Prequels can still surprise you

5 stars

Content warning slight spoilers; CW: gun violence

I, the Divine (2002, W. W. Norton & Company) 4 stars

Raised in a hybrid family shaped by divorce and remarriage, and by Beirut in wartime, …

This book does NOT hold your hand

4 stars

Content warning War; sexual assault; abortion; Domestic abuse

Winterkeep (2021, Orion Publishing Group, Limited) 4 stars

Solving all the mysteries: like how "Balls" refers to Scrotums.

4 stars

Content warning Animal harm; confinement; only spoilers for the romance

Gender Queer (GraphicNovel, 2020, Oni-Lion Forger Publishing Group) 5 stars

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics …

Genderfeels, but in comic form

4 stars

Content warning Misgendering, Transphobia / TERF alert

Fire (Paperback, 2009, Dial Books) 4 stars

It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. The young King Nash clings to …

Nature Versus Nuture? Can you control minds and NOT be an asshole?

4 stars

Content warning CW: medical trauma, gaslighting, sexual menace and sexual assault allusions

More Happy Than Not (Deluxe Edition) (Paperback, 2020, Soho Press, Incorporated) 4 stars

A special Deluxe Edition of Adam Silvera’s groundbreaking debut featuring an introduction by Angie Thomas, …

Became a crying mess like every other time I read this book. A+ do recommend

4 stars

Content warning CW: homophobia, hate crimes, domestic abuse, suicide; Spoilers for the book's new and old content

Hot Dog Girl (Hardcover, 2019, putnam) 4 stars

Elouise (Lou) Parker is determined to have the absolute best, most impossibly epic summer of …

Cute, and Funny and More

4 stars

It's a cute premise. Wanting to win the boy of your dreams while in your job's hot dog costume. But it's more than that. It shows what happens when we build people up in our heads and create an Us Versus Them narrative.

Monday's Not Coming (Paperback, 2019, Katherine Tegen Books) 4 stars

This book is EXTREMELY depressing and will fuck you up

4 stars

Content warning Child Abuse; Child death; sexual abuse

We Were Liars Deluxe Edition (Hardcover, 2017, Delacorte Press) 4 stars

On the concept of spoiling a book (No spoilers inside)

4 stars

I'm not gonna spoil the book, but the problem with this book, is that knowing everything is a spoiler makes it easy to spoil yourself, by say, looking at a blurb on the cover while you turn to the first page.

First blurb said something along the lines of "read nothing about this book"

Then the second blurb, this time an accidental sighting, gave away the twist now that I knew there was one.

To be clear, this is my second time reading the book. It's a fine book whether or not you know what's going to happen. I honestly think it's better on a reread.

But if you are a stickler for spoilers, don't read anything about the book except for the actual story. Not the summary, not anything on certain social media sites, and definitely not the blurbs.

But if you are spoiled: It's okay. You'll still like …

Bitterblue (2013, Orion Publishing Group, Limited) 5 stars

Bitterblue, 18-year-old queen of Monsea, realizes the futility of relying on advisers who surround her …

Relevant Fantasy Book, unfortunately

5 stars

Content warning Suicide, Abuse, allusions to sexual assault,

Graceling (Hardcover, 2008, Harcourt) 4 stars

In a world where some people are born with extreme and often feared skills called …

Truth is a precarious thing; Content Warning: Abuse, Gaslighting

4 stars

Me in 2013: This sure is rad! I could go for more of this, but the villain doesn't seem like a big deal! Me now: Oh, God I GET it now. 2016-2020 has taught me how precarious truth is and how ultimately devious gaslighting is. Also I love how Katsa and Po's graces compliment each other, it's really fitting, but OH GOD LECK IS THE WORST.

Maybe if you're 21 and naive like I was, and lived under a rock the past 4 years, you won't appreciate how powerful an ability to gaslight is.

I don't think you'll feel that way if you read Graceling now. It will scream "too real" as you remember the reporters talking about being gaslit by 45 regarding things they personally witnessed.

While I look forward to Winterkeep, the 4th book in the series coming out next year, I'm imagining I will see Fire and …