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Angmara

she/her/hers | 32 | USA - I just got back into reading a few years ago, slowly catching up! My favorite genres are horror, science fiction, dystopian, and thrillers; if it's spooky, I'm interested!

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Strange Pictures

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  • Tender Is the Flesh
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    how prepared am i supposed to be before i start reading this cause ppl either really like it or really hating it jailtime

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  • Strange Pictures
    Cracking the modern publishing scene

    Several times we hear about how word count is a big measure of how manuscripts are judeged and accepted. Uketsu seemed to have cracked the modern author's niche - he has an excellent social media presence, and he's leaned on that heavily. Look at the number of times the pictures were repeated with sometimes with no changes or with very little changes. It's a clever way to handle the goldfish attention span of the current audience. There's a big stretch of implausibility required from the reader with certain aspects of why the pictures where drawn in a certain way by the characters, but I get why it was done. Overall, I enjoyed the book and would read his other books too.

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  • William
    Angmara
    Sep 30, 2025
    3.5
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    there are no strings on me.

    this is exactly what i expected, it was cold and incredibly tense - the only thing running through my mind was ultron (in a good way). i think i liked that the overall tone was robotic (for lack of a better word) but it was a little too much so; difficult to tell if that was a choice or style. the story was straightforward and didn't get in the way of the characters themselves. with that being said the characters were unmemorable and i think william was under-utilized. there was more room to venture down the psychological horror and AI departments vs. "escape the house". this had a lot of promise and although it was enjoyable it didn't completely hit the mark for me.

    rest in piece andrew pyper 🕊️

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    Innamorata (The House of Teeth, #1)

    Innamorata (The House of Teeth, #1)

    Ava Reid

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    The Dilemmas of Working Women: Stories

    The Dilemmas of Working Women: Stories

    Fumio Yamamoto

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    Angmara wants to read...

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    Pan

    Pan

    Michael Clune

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