Ugh. The forced Dom/sub deal with him giving her titty twisters and telling her to obey him was NOT hot. It was odd and unconvincing. Spice was rushedUgh. The forced Dom/sub deal with him giving her titty twisters and telling her to obey him was NOT hot. It was odd and unconvincing. Spice was rushed and the writing wasn’t strong enough to get me to buy in to the FMC getting her clit slapped by her kidnapper and suddenly being into BDSM. Headless Horseman was just like some rando guy that watched one kinky video online and decided being rude and aggressive was how to be a sexy dominant man. They bone all over the house like they had a checklist to fulfill for Halloween night and then don’t speak for 6 months then proclaim their love. What?
Also she grave robs and gives him a skull and he gets a human head at the end? Disappointing. He’s a monster spirit whatever keep it that way. Don’t give me the headless horseman and not get the pumpkin head involved. Also a missed opportunity to talk about the headless horseman giving or getting head....more
I really enjoyed this! After seeing a couple rave reviews on goodreads from friends, this went from a maybe to must read for me and I was thrilled to I really enjoyed this! After seeing a couple rave reviews on goodreads from friends, this went from a maybe to must read for me and I was thrilled to be approved for an ARC from NetGalley.
I really like the premise of two characters connected by opposing roles in a prophecy who both bond because of it and struggle with it. We got to see some personality and sweetness between them and their shared experiences of being othered and saddled with intense expectations due to this prophecy. It feels like it’s going an interesting direction with free will and destiny and obligations to self and others, and I’m really looking forward to the next volume.
I wish more happened in this first volume, but we’ve been set up with a solid cliffhanger and I’ve got a feeling I might enjoy future volumes even more as the adventure really gets rolling.
Definitely recommend, a great graphic novel that is volume 1 in a longer series to be published in the future....more
This was fun. I’m not rushing to grab the next volume but I could definitely see using the library to grab more volumes next time I want a supernaturaThis was fun. I’m not rushing to grab the next volume but I could definitely see using the library to grab more volumes next time I want a supernatural adventure sort of anime. I enjoyed this quite a bit....more
The play-by-play descriptions of torture and rape flashbacks of the character as a teen were completely unnecessary. It was excessive and took away frThe play-by-play descriptions of torture and rape flashbacks of the character as a teen were completely unnecessary. It was excessive and took away from the book for me....more
Hard to follow, and the number of characters committing rape, incest, pedophilia, and physical violence seemed gratuitous, not to mention the close upHard to follow, and the number of characters committing rape, incest, pedophilia, and physical violence seemed gratuitous, not to mention the close ups of clothed erections for male characters of varying ages throughout, including children. I’ll engage with some dark and disturbing material, but it has to be there for a reason, not just be another attempted rape and mutilation scene because there hasn’t been one yet this chapter. Nope. Didn’t work for me. Still interested to try one of the author’s most famous works; the description from this one intrigued me and it was at my library, but I’ll be more intentional about requesting their more famous work Good Night Punpun next time I want to give them a try....more
Second chance lesbian romance between two art crime detectives (and ex-wives) who are thrown together after years without speaking. Forced to work togSecond chance lesbian romance between two art crime detectives (and ex-wives) who are thrown together after years without speaking. Forced to work together due to their unique expertise, they go on a mission spanning several countries to find and capture an international art thief, the only case that got away from them years before and a chance at redemption.
This was well-written and I found the reason for the initial divorce and the ways they’ve changed while apart plausible (for example, Fleur now has her 5 years Gamblers Anonymous sobriety chip), which had me both understanding why they had gone separate ways, and rooting for them to get back together. This is not always done successfully with second chance romances so I was so glad to not have reservations about their romance and the ways they are better together.
I found the mystery fascinating and could feel the author’s own appreciation of art history and particular artists. I liked that they were incredibly competent, while still doing some legwork and using their resources wisely, be it sources, coworkers in other cities, or the muscle of backup.
I grabbed an ARC ebook of this from NetGalley recently and decided Sapphic September was the perfect time to read. I’m giving an honest review and recommend it for fans of police procedural novels. I’m interested in checking out other novels by the author Jennifer Giacalone, and produced by Ylva Publishing....more
2.75 maybe? Cute but forgettable, it would’ve been nice to have less telling moments and less time on the ex. Two break up scenes with the same charac2.75 maybe? Cute but forgettable, it would’ve been nice to have less telling moments and less time on the ex. Two break up scenes with the same character in a book under 100 pages was quite absurd. The dates were cute but the pacing could’ve been done a bit differently....more
Absolute nonsense. A sort of fun wacky read, but incredibly frustrating with an enormous number of errors that would’ve been caught by spellcheck, somAbsolute nonsense. A sort of fun wacky read, but incredibly frustrating with an enormous number of errors that would’ve been caught by spellcheck, sometimes multiple in one sentence. Recommend only if you have a friend or audience to react to it with.
Lots of silly moments that are not remotely hot but certainly are wacky, like a potato with a superpower to vibrate and cause seismic activity, which both allows it to move entire mountains and to basically be a tiny starchy vibrating sex toy. And the traumatizing read of potato man in potato form penetrating the Dino man in human form, who is a top that did not prep and clean. That potato was all up there as a full tiny being in that unclean situation, not just a body part.
It’s strange with fuzzy instalove one moment and threats to murder and then “piss on the bloodied corpse” of anyone that’s mean to the potato boy the dinosaur shifter met yesterday.
But really the number of errors and confusingly phrased sentences took a lot away from this story for me. A couple examples of multiple in one sentence: “Wolfs live very long lives’. “Why? It this some sort of trickier,”
Huge number of inaccurate apostrophes, too/to and there/their/they’re confusion, etc. which not something I police on people’s personal pages but in a published work this number of errors genuinely makes it challenging to read at points.
A few couple examples of phrases that had me rereading to try to sort it out:
“No amount of nakedness since the mating was not nearly enough to quell my desire for Trike.”
“Within the pack, any soul brave enough to say it aloud, that I’d had a lucky escape, were the lucky ones to be left alive.”...more
Unfortunately not good, I wouldn’t continue reading this series for free via ARC, Webtoon, or library.
There is almost no story; the main character sumUnfortunately not good, I wouldn’t continue reading this series for free via ARC, Webtoon, or library.
There is almost no story; the main character summons a demon in the first panel and asks him to help him get a girlfriend. The demon says no I can like mind control her but that’s it basically, MC asks for advice, demon is like uh???? MC breaks the contract because he thinks it’s not helpful. But the MC can still use the demon’s powers? Which appear to just be arms coming out of the ground randomly. Super unclear.
It was a fun premise but it’s really unstructured and jumps between characters frequently and seems to focus on being random without forward movement or character development. But it’s random without being funny so it’s 200+ pages of not much.
Don’t recommend, this is the first ARC of a manga, webtoon, or graphic novel I’ve gotten and not liked thus far. If you’re curious, try checking out a few free chapters on Webtoon and see if you’d enjoy it, before committing to spending money on it....more
A large cast of characters and incredibly simple art with few distinguishing characteristics made this hard to follow. At the back there is a prose chA large cast of characters and incredibly simple art with few distinguishing characteristics made this hard to follow. At the back there is a prose chunk of information about the timeline, but no mention at the start or during the graphic novel that it exists. Even if it was easy to tell which character was which, it would be hard to follow the plot which has 1-2 footnotes on some pages, but fails to explain the majority of events or context within the story itself. Better framing of actually relaying relevant information, providing characters with individual designs or personalities, and plot progression beyond people being unhappy with corruption and unemployment after a dictatorship would have made this a compelling read. As it was, it was just a disappointing and bland graphic novel that fails to inform or evoke emotion.
Unfortunately, a disappointment for Women in Translation month, though that’s on me for grabbing it from the library without checking reviews first.
I’ve added the author to my list of authors I wouldn’t read again, because the confusion caused by the art and the poor framing with an info dump in post are issues I imagine would be true across stories....more
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