Persione

This book was a solid 3 stars
The drawings in it was a pleasant surprise and I breezed through this book, finishing it in 2 days.
However...the author very clearly wanted certain things to happen which makes some scenes feel rushed. Sometimes the characters would go on rants, talking out loud while they should be thinking (or atleast; it would've been beter in text, not dialogue)

This was a fun little book though, would very much recomend it as a quick read.

This book was a solid 3 stars
The drawings in it was a pleasant surprise and I breezed through this book, finishing it in 2 days.
However...the author very clearly wanted certain things to happen which makes some scenes feel rushed. Sometimes the characters would go on rants, talking out loud while they should be thinking (or atleast; it would've been beter in text, not dialogue)

This was a fun little book though, would very much recomend it as a quick read.

I'd say that I'm a little disappointed...for a book written in 2023 there where some bits that made me cringe. They mention a mentally challenged child once or twice and in the end you learn that he did it during, what I assume to be, an autistic meltdown? it also really just felt like a poorly transelated, barely edited fanfiction

Most of this book felt like I was following a class at school. There was so much to learn about the world and its magic system and I much more preferred the scenes where they where away from the school.

Not sure if I'll read the other comming books of this series because I felt like it had an alright ending for me to stop at.

Szabo can make such interesting worlds and creatures,,,but the writing and actions they make their characters do is seriously lacking or cringe worthy. Its sad, because I feel like their worlds do have serious potential.

I didn't need to read about Jesse stripping, or exploring their female body. The fact that they can shift their gender is definitely interesting, but Jesse's struggle with their gender/pronouns feels like an afterthought; it's just sprinkled in sometimes. The constant misgendering of Turing is also really upsetting.

It is also odd to me that in the 2 books I've read from Szabo, everyone just....wants the main character? The mc is an instant like for most other characters, and usually this like is sexual.

The last book I read by them (What Big Teeth) wasn't great but some qoutes in it made up for it a little bit, this sadly doesn't have that.

Couldn't say I cared much for the characters, which made the final pages not too interesting.

Absolutely loved the concept of the book and the parts with the devil where written well! But then there is the part where the writer tries to make it a semi-romantic book which felt very much unnecessary.

Didn't love it, didn't hate it.