I accidently spoiled this book for myself and I was damn near an emotional wreck at the end of this book and there wasn't enough book left to rebound from it. While I understand that the cliffhanger work as a hook to the next book in this series. It also left me with a bad taste in my mouth, due to the lack of substantial answers. To the ten million questions that were posed.

I loved Slate from the get go, but Candace took some warming up too.. I'm not sure why but at the beginning I felt very meh towards her. But she did grow on me, and became a character I thoroughly began to enjoy by halfway through the book. What I didn't really enjoy was, how and when explicit language was used along with the randomness of sexually charged narration.

The premise is incredibly interesting, and I did find it enjoyable but I think it would overall be better read once the next book (and possibly the whole series) has been released. Just because of how unsatisfying the ending of this book was.

Bessie is absolutely gorgeous and awesomely inspiring. I honestly am looking forward to reading the rest of this series. These are the type of stories that I loved reading growing up so it's nice to return to the type of thing the consumed a majority of my early childhood reading.

The one pet peve was that the overall layout did not lend itself to reading easily on my phone. SO would recommend reading in a physical form.

The best way to describe this is your take; your standard adults have disappeared kids (adolescents) struggled to survive in the wake narrative. But then add a singular magic kid and adults are zombies into the narrative.

I feel like I can't say much more about Creatures outside of that synopsis. It really is the setup for a larger story that I really am excited to read more of.

It's Gay and it Slaps.
Cute Nerdy boy meets tall dark and handsome while recruiting club members, tall dark and handsome joins said club and relationship blossoms.

I am not typically a huge fan of BL manga, because the 'will they, won't they', take a century just to hold hands.
Just isn't my cup of tea. If it's not yours either, I would recommend this.

Also would recommend for those who like cute smol nerds, falling for hunky sports guy.
Also contains healthy relationship dynamics, and being interested and willing to partake in activities that your partner is passionate about.

Does contain exactly one SPICY scene.

Did I presume that a book titled "Sprite and the Gardener" would be a romance? Just a Bit... Was it? No?

I had so many different feelings while reading this, about possible underlying messages and wondering about flower types. But to cover all the things would be too much.

This book felt like it encapsulated the feelings I'd get while I was sitting on the rug while the teacher read books to us. It was so much like consuming a book when I was small; I found myself giggling and grinning from ear to ear. I don't think any book has touched those feelings in a long time. Suppose you need a bit of hope in your life, a look back to simpler times. This is it!

The art is gorgeous; the characters are so diverse. I don't think I had really seen a plus-sized Sprite/Fairy until I read this book. Growing up watching shows like Winx Club and Tinker Bell, I was overjoyed to see Sprites that everyone could identify with. Also, they are all charming.


On a slightly separate note: This book, at its core, is not letting an old form of art disappear, it made me think so much of the exchange of arts that I see on TikTok. Helping to spread the knowledge to help ensure that it doesn't disappear.

Do you like She-Ra?

Do you like Girls with Swords?

Then this series is for you, no ifs, ands, or butts. The story and worldbuilding are incredibly interesting. As well as incredibly interesting bad-ass women.

After reading this, I have had a hard time putting the experience into words. And I think I've come to terms with why as I've thought on it. I think it comes down to is that I feel like I'm just supposed to sit at this moment.

Nicolas Keramidas' writing and art very much feel like he is sitting next to you recounting his life story to you, or at least this portion of it. It felt much less impersonal than sometimes reading a memoir can be. The sense of it being a story someone is telling you is there, and I don't feel like I'd pick up any other book and read about the beauty of being able to pee while looking out over a green. But that's the kind of stuff friends mention when they are telling stories.

The only thing I couldn't bring myself to like about this book was the anthropomorphic heart, which scares me. But beyond that, it is beautiful.

I had really high hopes for this book, I should know better, years of consuming manga should have prepared me for such a level of disappointment
But it hadn't.

Let us start with the lack of overall interesting characters. Early on, I hoped that while the MC was super bland that the supporting party would help bring me around. It didn't.
Something that could be interesting and happen over a span of time literally happened in less than a chapter; their choice had no real gravity and really didn't have any consequences.
The only person I at any point found myself intrigued by was the lizardman, Kudo.

In the end, this manga is your stereotypical Ecchi, where everyone this guy is bad at everything, but then we learn that he's actually super powerful.

I have mixed feeling on being critical towards the how in depth Ball goes into "Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre", being a very white person, who hadn't known about this piece of history until roughly two years ago. But I felt like this didn't have the impact it could have.

I was surprised that Barnes and Noble has this listed a book recommended for those between 12 and 18. Because the way this book is presented reminds me of the non-fiction books I consumed between 8-12.

This reminds me of those pieces of non-fiction because it feels incredibly surface level, and while in an accessible form. It reads incredibly similarly to reading a textbook, where nothing is delved into to deeply, we don't get any first hand accounts from people. It is just information. That will likely need more follow up information provided with it.

I'm not sure I quite agree with this being Teen/YA, This definitely fits into the rarely used descriptor of New Adult.

It is also most definitely NSFW, nudity and sex are very prevalent along with depictions of violence and body horror.

This was a very interesting take on Mental Health and Toxic relationships, But also it was like a bad trip, a really bad trip.

You definitely need to be in the right headspace to consume this piece of media.