brgntteva's Reviews (939)

challenging dark mysterious reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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It's a sort of noir, in a way, centered around a boy, Margio, living in a village of Indonesia, who has a white tigress inside himself. And a murder.

It starts from the end and goes backwards, till first and last pages are basically the same. It spans around the people of the village and the boy's family, from Margio's abusive father, his battered then depressed mother, his sister, and backwards still. His parents before getting married, his grandpa and his own tigress.
It does not necessarily go backwards in a linear way, more as elements that come back and go, from different angles, and that's what stood out the most to me, together with all the tidbits of life in rural Indonesia, with its traditions, plants and gambles.
I would have liked to see more of the tigress, and the consequences of having such a rage inside oneself, but he's definitely an author I'll like get back to

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L'uomo tigre (portato in Italia da @metropolidasia qualche anno fa) è una sorta di noir che inizia con un morto e risale il percorso che ha portato a quel momento. Prima pagina e ultima di fatto coincidono, con un'aggiunta. Il protagonista è Margio, e di lui sappiamo da subito che ha una tigre bianca dentro di sé. Da lì il racconto va all'indietro. Di Margio conosciamo la famiglia, il padre violento, la madre picchiata e violentata, la sorella, il nonno e la sua tigre, i vicini di casa. Ma anche come i genitori sono arrivati a quel punto, come si sono conosciuti. Il tempo non va indietro in modo lineare, più che altro ci sono elementi che tornano in loop ma da angolazioni diverse. E questa è la cosa che mi è piaciuta di più, insieme alle tradizioni e folklore dell'Indonesia rurale che emergono.

TW a pioggia (scene splatter, violenza domestica, stupro, morte)

Avrei voluto vedere di più la tigre e le coscienze di avere davvero di sé quella rabbia, ma di sicuro voglio leggere altro di questo scrittore

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emotional lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Work office romance with a kinky (second) meet cute.
Sex work
FMF scenes (secondary but 🔥)
too many (smallish) lies to my tasting.
wow to Dom scenes Most definitely 
🔥🔥🔥 af
emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Hades and Persephone retelling, transFMC and (possibly) demisexual MC
I keep having a soft spot for this retelling and yet I'm probably looking for angst I can't find. This is solidly hot, insta-lust where all obstacles come from outside.
It just felt a bit flat, but side characters are gold and might  read the others
challenging reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: N/A
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

Mi sa che sono partita dal libro sbagliato con Lispector.
Raccolta di racconti. Uno molto bello per motivi misteriosi (La cena). Altri letti a forza. Alcune immagini molto belle. Noiosetto

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

Puzzling sci-fi short story collection. Two connected as in 2 pov of the same story (bride and groom who are trying to meet on their wedding day coming from different starships, but go through endless tragedies - end of the world as we know it included)
2 other stories connected in a lateral way, maybe. They're a cosmogony of sort, or better the sort of the origin of everything. Some real coll stuff to ponder on
Need the physical book badly
emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Black romance, mf, novella, best friends to lovers (a trope I don't generally like)(too close to home?). Erotica writer lost the spark, tried to find it back with bf

 Steamy, sweet!, left me curious abt both MCs' best friends
hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
dark emotional funny informative fast-paced
emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: N/A
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A