protovulcan's Reviews (440)

Hirotaka... I think I would kill to date him. Wake up Narumi!! 

Too many characters in this annoy me, including the MC. The plot is starting to get more interesting though.  

I'm reading this series because it's my boyfriends favorite, so far it's not for me. I do read like 100 female villainess/female isekai comics a day that are basically carbon copies of each other though so I know I'm not the target audience for this. Sorry ♡

I read this book when I was 14 and loved it and I still love it at 22. It’s a pretty easy read but still fun and I like everything it sets up for future books. I love Cinder, she’s such a good Cinderella interpretation. She wants to get away from her abusive family and focus on freedom but she’s not immune to falling in love. She has a job she’s good at but she’s not girlbossified *cough* Camilla Cabello *cough*. 

I love scifi and this is so far the only fairytale YA retelling I’ve really liked. Also, kind of a weird feeling reading this book in 2021. The plague and all. 

This book was so good until about page 250. I read this in two sittings, first because I really wanted to know how this ended and then because I only had a hundred pages left and I wanted to power through.  I think overall it was an interesting read and the system they lived in was interesting to read about. Nora, Dylan, Jess, Abby, and Elisha's parents were all characters I really liked.  My feelings for Alex went from intense dislike to neutral and my feelings for Elisha went from neutral/passive like to dreading every POV character of his post page 250. I never liked Alex and Elisha's relationship together (duh?) but I liked where they ended up.

I never bought either of them genuinely liking each other until the end of the book. 

Some of the reviews say the book is bad at handling race and I agree partially. Nora and Dylan are both well written black women (I definitely remember Nora being described as black, once, so I hope I'm remembering correctly) but

the fact that even after it's revealed that Onyx is not on dociline and in a consensual relationship with his Patron, he's never given a normal name... I understand the Opal+Onyx thing is fetishizing their looks and renaming them is another way rich people dehumanize Dociles but once there's the reveal why not learn their real names.

Eugenia telling Elisha to just stay a slave then because he doesn't want to risk his personal and family safety for her cause. Oof. 

Overall it was a good read but theres a ~100 page lull towards the end before anything interesting happens again. 

“But now we know there has been no one great disaster—only the slow motion disaster of capitalism converting every living thing and ideas into property.” 
Facts, bro.
There was a lot I liked (Medea Cohen) and a lot I disliked (Eliasz). The writing style is really good and the characters are well written shades of grey. Except Eliasz, who I hate. Both relationships in this book were truly ass. But they were interesting! Individually I liked everyone (except Eliasz) but in a relationship they were awful. Eliasz is “in love” with Paladin despite not understanding a single thing  about Paladin... Paladin allows this farce to go on because she wants to be with Eliasz... Jack engages in a fuckbuddy relationship with a “free” slave who just  considers Jack to be his new master...The book ends, unbelievably, exactly how I wanted... with Med and Threezed being BFFs. They are the only healthy relationship in the book <3 
Ok anyways very cool book about freedom and owning things and people and robots and there’s a lot of comparisons you can draw between all the couples and individuals and where they started and where they ended up. 

Pacat is so good at making me feel things. I was confused, angry, sad, happy. Not in that order. I sort of called the twist halfway through the book but that didn’t lessen the excitement/drama of it when it happened. And then everything after that!! I need the second book now please. The backstory, the reveals, the character motivations and interactions they had with each other are all really compelling. 

Favorite characters so far are Violet (who has an amazing arc that made me emotional), Justice, and Devon. Will and Violets friendship is so sweet, another reviewer said they’re platonic soulmates and that is facts <3

The women outnumber the men in this book, and it’s great. Each is unique and well written and I love all of them. 

I’m definitely rereading this when it’s officially out and my preorder arrives!

This book was only 200 pages but it felt like 200 years. 
The only reason this gets 2 stars and not 1 is because I did find a select few scenes funny,  and the last 20 pages pretty enjoyable. The rest of this just isn't for me. Though it might be effective propaganda for doing drugs.  This guy did every drug imaginable for a week straight and lived until 2005. Amazing. Less amazing is the obvious: racial slurs, the very real rape of a very real girl, all the random people they terrorized... nothing in this book was interesting enough for me to balance out the other stuff.  The art was cool.  

This book was so fun to read. I liked Soraya’s inner struggle between being “good” and then straight up wanting to murder people. 
Things I Liked:
The Persian Mythology, the fact that Soraya really struggled with wanting to be a good person but succumbing to her anger, lesbian moth demon.
Things I Didn’t Like:
Ramin
By 3/4ths into the book I was like, Ok Soraya stop flip flopping. Stick to a decision!! 


Moral of the story: if you let shame control you, it will fester and make you do stupid stuff. Everything in this book could have been resolved way faster if people stopped lying to each other and being ashamed of their choices!

I didn’t go in expecting a lot... and I guess that’s good. Jameson still annoys me. Avery’s security team is a joke even though it’s emphasized many times how tight her security is. There’s no substantial character development, all the side characters are very 2D. Grayson might as well be part of that cast. 
The only reason this isn’t a one star is because for the first 3/4 of this book I was enjoying the mystery. Then the family tree got way too twisted and there was a twist within a twist that didn’t impress me.