saint_eleanor's Reviews (295)

The Girl Aquarium

3.5

emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced

This was lovely i definitely didnt like every poem but the namesake one was so beautiful and so were a lot of others. Lovely 💌🐬

What Moves the Dead

T. Kingfisher

3.0

adventurous dark funny 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: No

Ok honestly this didnt blow me away i was expecting a little more i think. But in terms of classic straight up gothic horror it was pretty fun bc it got a little sci-fi-y. Pretty much like exactly what you would think it’d be about.

BLAME! Academy and So On

Tsutomu Nihei

5.0

funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

This is literally so cute
Mensab sensei and p-cell chan I’m dead

Biomega, Vol. 1

Tsutomu Nihei

4.0

This was so sick
I feel like i like the art of Blame! Better even though they are the same universe but this story is a bit more exciting and i love the bear

Vampire Knight, Vol. 1

Matsuri Hino

4.5

dark funny lighthearted relaxing 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: Yes

Love

Lapvona

Ottessa Moshfegh

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Ok sorry everyone but i actually love this book so much.
Opening with a demi lovato quote is craaaazy, especially because of what followed. This was so bleak and upsetting and so complicated and complex even though the writing and story were so straight forward. It felt so incredibly haunted even though there was no supernaturalness, just madness.

I'm so curious to know what people thought of the fact that the servants seemed to be worshipping a completely different deity the whole time, and also what it meant at the end when ina 'put god' into grigor. Assuming that ina killed Agata by slowly poisoning her with tansy, but still kind of uncertain how she got younger (maybe just eats more) and why all of a sudden she cares about god.

This book is kind of abt love in the time of capitalism

Content Warnings

Thicker Than Water: New Writing From The Caribbean by Peta Gaye V. Williams, Xavier Navarro Aquino, Sharon Millar, Lynn Sweeting, Lisa Allen-Agostini, Nicolette Bethel, Lelawatee Manoo-Rahming, Zahra Gordon, Richard Georges, Vashti Bowlah, Hazel Simmons McDonald, Diana McCaulay, Philip Nanton, Monica Minott, Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, Funso Aiyejina, Barbara Jenkins, Ira Mathur, Judy Raymond, Shivanee Ramlochan

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

This was so beautiful
Some of the stories were pretty dense and slow but not all of them and the poetry was so beautiful.
My favorite authors were Sharon Millar, Lynn Sweeting, Lelawatee-Manoo, Boodoo-Fortuné, Shivanee Ramlochan 🩵