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What a relief after 3 unbearably straight and awful books in a row.
A wonderful mess.
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There are some nice things in here that I would really like in any
other book, but not this one.
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The better of the two, but largely the same. I feel like these books
are a bit too autobiographical, but I don't know if I'm allowed to
accuse an author of that.
My real problem is that I read these books as largely uncritical
of their characters. They behave in nonsense ways, are mostly
uncritical of their own behaviour, and don't really have arcs of
growth or change. I suppose this book had a bit of one, but only
in the last two chapters.
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Unbearably straight. Eyerolls and sighs per page off the charts.
Shout out to Joanna, I guess.
I kinda like the lack of quotation marks though to be honest.
After half of the Ruth Ozeki novel and now this, I need to get back
to some genre fiction.
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Suffers a little bit from middle book but I really enjoyed it. Read
it faster than the first one too, despite its length.
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Mixed bag like most collections of short stories. Some of them are
pretty good. The author of the worst written story also has the
worst written bio.
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Never seen a title telegraph the reveal so hard. Excited to read
the next one though.
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Look, it's okay. But I should have been done with classics fan
fiction last time I said so.
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There are some truly horrifying and gruesome bits though.
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So good, but so long. Reminded me of The Ten Thousand Doors of
January at the beginning, and more of that N. K. Jemisin series
about gods later. I like this interacting with gods and becoming
something like one sort of thing.
God, it took me a whole month (more?) to read and this is only my
third book of the year :( I need some more novellas to read, but
the other books I have from the library currently are also thick.
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No, I am still rating these out of three. I love this so much.
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Sophie is a fucking idiot jfc. She doesn't even get a redemption
she's just bad all the way to the end.
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An impressive amount of these short stories are actual stories with
beginnings, middles and ends! Well done! The last little side story
of All the Birds in the Sky is cute.
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Good, but slow.
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What an interesting one!
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I had reserved this at the library like half a damn year ago after
enjoying the anime, just to see if I'd like to read the manga. The
answer is not really. Also such a huge and hefty book for so little
reading.
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Meh.
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What the fuck.
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Surprisingly good for something written by a man like a hundred
years ago!
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It's like proto-xenogenesis-series.
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Felt so short compared to the previous full-length novel.
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Some good stories but 99% downers. Feels like the editors fell for
thinking that "feminist speculative fiction" can only be about
suffering. Where are the stories of pride and empowerment? Balance
it out, please.
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Contemptible protagonist, long and tedious. Would not have ever
read Year of the Flood if I had read this one first.
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Abrupt ending.
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The writing style seemed very odd at the beginning. Not sure the
end was sastisfying.
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Tedious. I must give up on the classics fanfiction genre.
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More interesting than I remember the second book being, but so long
too.
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Found in a street library. Was surprised to find something other
than mystery. It was amusing, but the writing and overall story was
not great.
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I have a problem with short stories. They pull you in and then take
you nowhere. The stories were good though, and I especially liked
the SVU one.
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Gotta say the writing of Queens as a math nerd was kinda cringe
though.
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Remembering how to read 2021.
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A cute extra novella. Finally finished this series.
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Reading has really slowed down :(
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Why do the bad guys get a happy ending though?
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Finally able to read again. But not a great sequel.
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Uh oh, the library is closed.
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