I'm going to have to DNF this book, which makes me really sad. I absolutely adored the first book in the series, so much so that I thought it would make it on my best of 2020 list, but this book says otherwise. I just didn't like where this book was going, and I genuinely have no motivation to read it. And it sucks so bad because their have been so many books this year where I've absolutely loved book 1, but I can't get through book 2. It makes me sad.

Fun, but very forgettable. Also I hate biology and math so I skimmed everything to do with either

This was the cutest thing I've read in so long and I desperately want to read volume 2. I hate reading webtoons online, but the second volume doesn't come out for another 6 months ):

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Update

It has been 10 minutes and I have cracked. I'm currently reading the webtoons for this series and I'm not stopping till I've read everything that's been published. I think I've fallen down a vastly large rabbit hole...

dnf at pg. 100


I’m not really feeling this right now. I’ll probably pick it up again some other time

I was getting major deja vu reading this, and then I remembered half-way-through that I read this when it came out. For some reason it wasn't marked as read on here. Anyways, this was fun, and I adore Zaf <3

Was pretty disappointed by this /:



Pre reading thoughts

All you had to say was 'Pride and Prejudice' retelling, and I was sold. But then you tell me its a f/f PP with fake dating? I will pay hundreds for this.

*2.5


So I’ve read marvel comics before, and I’ve read some of Nat’s comics before, but I’ve never kept track of the ones I’ve read. I’ve now made it my mission to read every marvel comic that includes winterwidow (or almost every marvel comic bc they might be in little snippets of long runs n stuff. Just the mainstream black widow, winter soldier, captain america & avengers stuff basically lol) bc I adore them and I want to read their full story through the comics. So I’m starting here and working my way up.


I don’t remember ever reading this comic run, and this first issue was a little lackluster and albeit confusing. The pacing was weird, and I wasn’t a huge fan of the art style, especially Bucky’s character design. However, I’m really intrigued to read more about Natasha’s entry into the red room (which is one of my favorite parts about Natasha both in the mcu and in the 616 comic runs that I’ve read), and Wolverine was an interesting addition to this?? I definitely wasn’t expecting that, and now I’m even more intrigued to pick up some X-Men stuff bc the X-Men are awesome. Anyway, pretty mediocre, but regardless, I’m still gonna finish this run.

So continuing on with Richard K. Morgan’s Black Widow run was an ultimately fun time. I didn’t like this volume as much as I liked the first one. The vibes felt a little different, and this volume was drastically darker—which isn’t a bad thing in most case scenarios,—but the way some of the serious topics were dealt with made me uncomfortable. Also, a lot of homophobia in here which hindered my enjoyment some, but I tried to look past both these issues since these comic runs are from over fifteen years ago.

Aside from the problematic aspects, I really loved Natasha in this collection. She’s so fucking unapologetic and badass, and she does not give a single fuck. Nat will do whatever she needs to do to get to a means end. Comic Natasha is so much more ruthless and rabid than she is in the mcu, and her comic persona is what I so desperately wished the mcu would have done to Nat’s character. I loved seeing Yelena again, and while personality wise, Yelena comics vs. mcu are pretty different, I still love both of them separately.

The art is still not my favorite. It just looks really like undeveloped and scratchy??? Almost like a touch draft of a sketch if that makes sense? It just personally wasn’t my cup of tea, but I will admit there were a few pretty panels here a there. But if I could avoid reading more with this art style, I probably would. The plot line wasn’t the best in this one. In fact, I was kinda over the plot by #3. The only reason I rated this 3 stars instead of 2.5 was because of Natasha. That’s it, Natasha is one of the coolest characters I’ve ever read about.