literatureaesthetic's Reviews (540)

Rating: 2.75

This was just pure smut, I kinda wish it had more depth to it and focused more on developing the relationship.

This reread was everything I wanted and more! I fell in love with The Night Court all over again, Rhysand his inner circle were just as hilarious and lovely as I remembered. In my opinion, this is the best book out of the whole trilogy. It had me laughing and crying, and raging over a specific character (I think we all know who I'm talking about). Even though I just finished it, I want to read it all over again. My only problem is that it isn't longer!! ❤

I'll write a complete review at some point, but for now... I loved this!! It's my favourite book in the series for sure.

Wow. This book was surprisingly incredible. So incredible, that I went into this book despising Chaol, and finished the book loving him. What is this world?!

I give this all the stars, a million fricking stars.

There is absolutely no way I can write a coherent review. With every plot twist, I swear this book damaged me a bit more. The last 200 pages were too much, I was crying and screaming and then laughing and then crying again. This is, by a mile, my favourite Sarah J Maas book (I'm sorry Rhysand). And it's definitely my favourite book of 2020 so far. Now excuse me, I'm going to go lie down and stare at the ceiling, hating life because I'm not a Fae in Crescent City

This was great!!!
I am no expert at Manga, in fact this is the first manga series I have ever read. I admit, the first volume in the black editions, wasn't my favourite. I found it difficult to adjust to and found it slightly boring. This volume, however, was the complete opposite. It was delightful reading the exchanges between L and Light. I loved Misa, even though she was slightly stupid. I'm excited to see what Light's plan is, and where things will go from here. Because I must say, I was not expecting Light to make that decision at the end, and do what he did.

I actually loved this collection. I thought the artwork was brilliant, and I loved that as you continued reading the srories got darker and creepier. I don't usually get scared by books or movies, but some of the images in this book were actually really unsettling and were almost haunting.

I really liked the metaphorical aspect of this manga. Through the creation of the girl, Tomie, Junji Ito reflects on society's tendancy to prioritize beauty, as well as comments on humanity's urge to possess and destroy everything we find beautiful. It represents how men's pursuit and desire for beauty often results in self-destruction. I thought the concept of beauty literally driving men to madness was interesting and unique.

Also, Tomie herself is ruthless and vain and just generally a bitch. I love it. I think there was something satisfying about Tomie killing all these men (or at least being the root cause of their deaths). Although Tomie is obviously the central "villain", I actually believe men are depicted a lot worse in this manga. Their overwhelming need to possess Tomie, and their desperate urge to kill Tomie to prove their masculinity and in hopes to regain some semblance of control, was pitiful and even disturbing. I found myself cringing more at the males than I did Tomie, which is saying a lot.

I did think some of the stories were slightly repetitive so I knocked off a star.

The characters were okay, however I hated everything else?

The plot was boring, eveeything moved way too fast, and the relationship... That relationship was infuriating. There's literally a part where the boyfriend says the lead female,e isn't allowed to swear because she's too 'innocent'. Honestly, I wanted to launch my tablet across the room.