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handove's Reviews (147)
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
Diverse cast of characters:
No
this was fun! not my favourite romance ever but the concept is interesting (though very romanticised. and also takes a very white perspective on things)
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
me talking on twitter about this book: well i'm in love with becky chambers, and, well i'm just in love with the world and sidra is so cute and it's like, beautiful, but in a pure way, i guess
dark
emotional
funny
sad
Of course I’m a fraud. The fact that I’m able to carry myself through life without being crushed beneath the psychological weight of being alive proves that I’m a con artist. Aren’t we all con artists?
I've got it all figured out. Humans are cancer / a parasite / bacteria.
oomf put it exquisitely: it's kind of like having a panic attack while reading your own diary. or something.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts
I want, Mahit thought, and with that phrase felt all the tumbling headlong desire to fall, and be subsumed, and be—oh, the Teixcalaanlitzlim she’d imagined herself in all those long-ago language instruction classes when she’d called herself Nine Orchid and thought poetry would be enough to make her the kind of person that a Teixcalaanlitzlim would automatically think of as a person.
NINETEEN ADZE GODDD arkady martine if you ever end up writing that novella about her i will donate my entire body to science
this had more actual action in it than book 1 but honestly i don't think i liked it quite as much? political intrigue is definitely my thing tho so that just meant amce appealed to me more. this had lesbianism and aliens and brain issues. i love you mahit dzmare
i have no idea when i read this or even what most of it is about, except at some point a girl runs off to mongolia and meets a boy named altan. like that's all i remember. i'm kind of pleased, as always, to find evidence that i read before 2023 but otherwise? nothing.
might do a reread but ?
might do a reread but ?
connected to this particularly bc of the parts set in china. beautifully written i see what clover was saying
[16/01/25] i don't rly remember much about this book anymore but. #dykesfortouraine
medium-paced
How did the saying go? Lord, grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man.
i knew this was ya going in but the writing still felt a bit juvenile at times? anyway a lovely read i would've liked more of the black water sister and what she's been doing since she died but oh well
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Sexual harassment
Moderate: Homophobia, Rape
attempted sexual assault on mc / implications of rape (side characters)
last 30% really sharpened up. leah pov > miri pov until then. gutting and beautiful but definitely more on the literary side of horror
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Body horror, Death
Minor: Sexual content, Lesbophobia