gxuosi's Reviews (390)

UNDEAD: Finding Love in the Zombie Apocalypse, Volume 2

Fumi Tsuyuhisa

2.0

dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

the story did not pay off in this one. the pacing man it's just so fast and the literal rape was not remotely needed so.

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UNDEAD: Finding Love in the Zombie Apocalypse, Volume 1

Fumi Tsuyuhisa

3.0

dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

the art is soooo good, but the pacing is too fast. it's hard to connect with characters given there's no downtime to understand them better. also i have to point out the really lacking sexual consent between the protags (it was in fact sexual assault).

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Cat and Bird: A Memoir

Kyoko Mori

DID NOT FINISH: 17%

dnf at 17%. it’s just not what i thought it was gonna be. it doesn’t inspire any emotions, even anger. so i don’t really see the point in finishing it.

Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob)

Avan Jogia

0.5

slow-paced

somehow dancing the line of being both completely void of skill and mind numbingly pretentious, i have never read a worse book in my life and i actually feel bad saying that. the type of self awareness and introspection that makes poetry worth reading is not only absent from this collection, but i find myself convinced that the worst indie guy you went to school with couldn't have even dreamed up something as disappointing as this.

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These Feathered Flames

Alexandra Overy

3.25

adventurous emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

read this as part of a buddy read with lilkpuff. it was an easy read and decently enjoyable, but managed to piss me offff a lot. ultimately it felt like 100 pages of teenage indecision and drama could have been better spent on world building and letting the reader get a better grasp on the kingdom, the fading, the way the magic works. i was also under the impression based off the book description that it would be more of a murder mystery than it turned out to be. if it weren't for that damned

stone bar cage

, i may have given this 4/5.

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A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle

2.0

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

really disappointing. i just didn't care for the author giving the reader no room to try and solve the mystery and then the second half of the book being a wild west revenge story was so left field i couldn't stand it.

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Robopocalypse

Daniel H. Wilson

5.0

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

oh my godddddd. i can't believe i found this book on my mom's bookshelf mixed in with her nonfiction history books. she's owned this thing for the last 14 years and i've never even considered its existence. oh my goddddd this shit rocked. this was soooo fucking fun. a unique book format AND the indomitable human (humanoid) spirit?!? yoink! this is mine now.

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Passing

Nella Larsen

5.0

challenging emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

nella larsen, you have perfected the ability to make the reader so anxious that my skin burns and my mouth feels dry. jesus christ

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The Fox Wife

Yangsze Choo

3.0

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

i have a handful of specific complaints i could rattle on about but ultimately this was twice as long as it should be, wasn’t necessarily written that well, and left me unsatisfied. it was just fine.

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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

2.0

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

i wanted to give this book another shot after just hoe badly i hated it in highschool english. it’s been 16 years and it’s definitely not as a bad as it used to be, but i still just do not like this damn book. the people are all unlikable which is fine by me, but the narrator does no favors to how this story is told. buried under lists of names of people who don’t matter, nonlinear memory, and 1920s excess is a honestly good story about rage, infidelity, grief, and a whole lot of entitlement. but god it’s a miserable read.

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