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I'm really enjoying this book on one level. It's funny, smart, it's basically Happy Death Day set in a fantasy world! But the Man-Writes-Woman syndrome is really starting to wear on me! Hardly the worst I've ever read, but the more I purposefully delve into books written by women, the more this stuff irks me! I want better for us, and my tolerance level is decreasing by the year!
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jamie is giving me whiplash. i'm not a fan of the emotional push-and-pull going on with him. one second, he's warming up to mika, the next second, he's being a prick.
i'm gonna need one hell of a redemption arc for this guy 'cause he just keeps annoying me.
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“Perhaps you might choose a worthier penis next time.”😂😂 this book is so cozy and funny, I’m loving it!
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Enjoying this so far, but yikes, am not enjoying the constant ableist language. Being a Brit myself, I'm aware this is normal language here, but that doesn't warrant it's inclusion in a novel. Esp one written for kids. We need to excise these sentiments from our language. Find better ways to express what we mean, that don't do harm.
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Undead (Undead, #1)
Kirsty McKay
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Davi's knowledge of her Earth life is maddenly inconsistent. She doesn't remember her life on Earth but remembers stuff like Dr. Freud, Netflix, and reddit? Her way of speaking is also very cringe. Sounds like a try-hard teenager.
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How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1)
Django Wexler
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This book wrapped me up in a warm soft blanket in front of a roaring bonfire on the moonlit solstice, broke my heart, then put it back together again. I honestly can't recommend it enough. I wish I could fall into this book á la Thursday Next, and never come out! I'm honestly close to changing my 4.5 to a 5 star review, which would be a rarity for me!
After several books that drove me absolutely wild with the horrible communication between characters, this was the perfect balm to my soul. Even when things got difficult, characters explored their emotions and their trauma together in very real, needed ways, to enable them to find resolution together. There were no sticking plasters on wounds, just true healing. Especially important given how much Mika's pain and traumas match my own.
A perfectly cosy found family story. 🥰
(Notes to those who have already read this book:
Ian is played by Ian McKellan in the movie of my heart. From his first introduction as the incorrigibly rambunctious elderly gay man in a loving relationship, it just slotted into place for me. Think a combo of his character in Vicious, without the bitchiness, with just a tiny sprinkling of Gandalf! 😆
If you loved Mika's relationship with magic, and haven't read Nevermoor yet, go, run, find another beautiful found family, and more wonderful magic lore where magic is like a living being to communicate with!)
KittenInACave commented on sunnysunshine's review of The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
The author based this on the Sixties Scoop and mirrors this by putting monster-children into an orphanage - the narrative paints this as something for their own good and ultimately for the best. There is no critique of this - it is the backdrop for a romance - this is the setting. Appropriating the trauma of a cultural genocide while not only failing to make effective cultural commentary but actively furthering harmful rhetoric surrounding what happened to indigenous children in Canada by writing the fantasized version of this as 'for their own good,' and turning the children into monsters is unacceptable.
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The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Sangu Mandanna
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