Nick
Please read!! It may be old in terms of world events, but it is certainly fully applicable to today. Community over corporations, I fear they have more power than we can even being to fathom.
The setting of the book is so cozy but the characters lack depth. I feel it's an issue of translation, filled with quick-moving short sentences, simple language choices and telling rather than showing. I struggled so hard to connect with the characters and their relationships with one another. Why did it feel like the aunt was going to murder Takako?
A quick cozy read but focus on enjoying the settings of the story rather than the characters!
Ottessa, congrats on creating a solidified image of medieval life in my mind. All sorts of messed up, hope you're doing okay queen.
The prose was stunning, the imagery breathtaking but I was not prepared for the realness of this lmao.
motherhood is an understated form of power and art. catered to a very specific crowd of people, when you're done you'll know if that included you.
This has landed in my top 5 favorite books. Chilling, entertaining and most definitely thought provoking. The stark realities the author intertwines seamlessly keep the novel grounded, as we navigate biblical comparisons to modern life and generational/familial conflict. It's nice to interact with content where gen z isn't slandered for being chronically online and incapable of surviving on their own, rather, as adaptive and collected individuals while witnessing disasters of biblical proportions.
