simonlorden's Reviews (1.38k)

 

Könnyed, aranyos kisregény, ami tulajdonképpen egy történelem órára emlékeztet. A jól ismert március 15-ei eseményeket meséli el, egy kis romantikával fűszerezve. Bevallom, a főszereplő kicsit idegesített, mert 16 évesen mindent jobban tud, és csodálkozom, hogy ennyire nem volt következménye annak hogy másfél napra eltűnt és idegen férfi lakásában töltötte az éjszakát. Érdekes volt a híres történelmi személyeket kortárs emberekként, megközelíthetőként, majdhogynem fiatal suhancként látni. 

Four kid siblings go to a seer who tells them the date when they're going to die. Then we follow their lives and deaths. The title is a bit ironic.

I liked the concept - the various endings really make you wonder whether things still would have happened the same way if they hadn't heard the future. I found the first two siblings a lot more interesting, the second two less so, but they all had twists and little details that I liked.

The presentation of Roma people in the book is... not very positive, though. Although there are some interesting sparks about the culture and the language, but overall they are seen as criminals and cheats by most characters.

I received an ARC through NetGalley and this is my voluntary and honest review.

(Side-note: the NetGalley reader stopped working around 75% in, and I had to finish the book in the badly formatted desktop Kindle app, because I can't read on my Kobo ereader since the last update. Yay.)

I always love ocean horror stories, especially if they are queer. Nhung and Covey are two girls with complicated parental relationships - Covey's mother is missing, and Nhung's mother is obsessed with bringing back their dead family members. Also, there is some kind of red algae drowning the water, and people are disappearing.

I liked Noon and Covey and their friends as characters, they were a fun bunch and said interesting things about life and parents. So they were kind of the heart of the book for me. The other big theme is of course Noon being uncomfortable in her body, and trying to find her place. I couldn't figure out if she was meant to be nonbinary or simply rejecting humanity, but it was an interesting character arc.

There is a lot about rape culture, trauma, Vietnamese culture, climate change, weird gender feelings, and body horror, so if you're interested in those themes and also water monsters, then this might be the book for you.

I received an ARC through NetGalley and this is my voluntary and honest review.

I liked the first book, but it didn't really grab me. Still, I decided to continue, mostly because I was attached to Saffron. This book though - it pulled me in and blew the first one out of the water, for me. There's several new characters, or old characters we get to know better, and they're all amazing. There's other worlds! TWO of the mains are trans! There's more dragons!

Also, Leoden's character arc is similar to that of one of my favorite characters, so of course I fell in love with it. Sue me.

I received a copy through NetGalley and this is my honest and voluntary review.

A fun high fantasy book focused mostly on queer women, trans included. Two of the main characters are from Earth who ended up in this fantasy world, while some of them are locals, and there's also variety in ages and situations which made them really interesting. Seeing how differently they handle situations was great, and also how they can be complex, like Viya is clearly kinda racist because she's young and she grew up in that environment, but hopefully she'll work on it.

There's normalized polyamory and female sexuality - explicitly it is said that there's no equivalent word to "vixen" in the local language because female sexuality isn't scandalous like it is on Earth. There's also a lot of politics and religious worldbuilding between two nations. I especially liked how the names were handled, and how it differed between Kena and Veksh.

I was a bit disappointed by the ending, it felt like a story being cut short when it was really just beginning. But I'm curious to see what Saffron will do next.

edit: I slept on it and I feel even worse about it, so I changed my rating.

This was almost perfect, except that I feel kinda baited with the whole Iana thing. You spend two and a half books setting it up, and then go "haha no"?

If it truly didn't mean to go anywhere, then they could have clarified that sooner.

Except for that, and my mixed feelings about the ending, it had the things I like about the series, and more. Thara gets to solve cases both big and small, deal with both dragons and bureaucracy, and we also had some great scenes with Csevet and Maia, whom I missed dearly.

I received an ARC through NetGalley and this is my honest and voluntary review.

The Lost Sunday is about a town where there is no Sunday, and the people just work and work without stopping on the six days of the week. Also the days of the week are wolves. So a girl called Nina gets fed up with this, and sets out to find the lost Sunday and bring it back so that they can rest.

Of course, it gets a bit more complicated, because it turns out that resting all the time and forgetting about responsibility hurts people too. You need a balance between hard work and rest, on every day of the week, not just Sunday.

I liked the imagery and the concept of the days being wolves, especially towards the end. There are also some cool notes about the fairytales used (there's several folktales that this story is based on) and concept art.

Very dense, basically retelling all of Greek mythology in order through women making cloth. I knew many of the stories, but it was sometimes hard to keep track of who was who, since there was simply way too much information everywhere, a lot of detours where they tell a story of X inside the story of Y, etc.

 

 Second book by this author that I just love. The characters are alive and colorful, the banter is funny, the time-travel is chef's kiss, and also it's full of queer women which is a neat bonus. 

Very difficult to understand tbh, it really wasn't for me. The writing style is... random? And most of it centers around the author's toxic relationship with this guy. This is my subjective opinion but it wasn't for me.