sup3r_xn0va_maya's Reviews (387)

This manga was funny, sweet, and sad. It's just too good, honestly. I really love Takeo as a main character, he is so wholesome and has so much heart. His best friend, Sunakawa, is considerate and thoughtful and his girlfriend, Yamato, is so sweet and adorable. I got emotional twice while reading and I couldn't help but to get teary eyed, this story is written and illustrated so well! I really enjoyed the story. 

Overall I'm giving this 5 stars out of 5
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I read this for free on the library app libbyapp.com

This was an okay intro to Abolition feminism but the language was very dense, dry, and the text felt very academic. Despite those complaints, I still learned a fair amount. Thought, I still have basic questions like, "if we get of prisons, what do we do with the repeat rapists and murderess? The repeat violent offenders?" At one point the text even says something like, hardcore abolitionist are always criticized and asked what should be done with police officers who are repeat offenders and there was no answer, so like? What do we do with them? 


Overall I liked what I read but I still have that one burning question left, I didn't get an answer that satisfied me unfortunately. 

Overall I'm giving this 4 stars out of 5
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I listened to this for free on the library app libbyapp.com

This was really cute, I really liked the art and the story but there were a few things that I didn't like.

Here are some things I didn't like.

I didn't like how Sunakawa's sister has been waiting on Takeo since he was in 3rd grade and she was in 6th grade. A 3rd grader (at least in the USA) is 8-9 years old, a 6th grader (in the USA) is 11 to 12 years old. So she wants to wait until he's in college, but doesn't that become grooming? I don't know, I just know that I didn't like that situation. 

There were a few parts where one or more characters said that men doing feminine things was "wrong" and I didn't like that. 

Lastly, towards the end of the manga it's implied that the main character, Takeo tries to forcibly kiss (for kissing practice) his friend Sunakawa, even though he expressly said he was not interested. Sexual assault and harassment shouldn't be used for humor or jokes.

Overall I'm giving this 4 stars out of 5
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I read this for free on the library app libbyapp.com

The twists and turns in this were just too good. At one point I even started crying, and this was all within volume 1. Ooku is the story of an alternate Edo-period Japan where there was an outbreak of a disease that killed off 3/4th of the men. The men are revered and protected since there aren't many of them. The Shogun, who is always female now (because women took up all the "male" roles in society) has an inner chamber with societies 800 most beautiful men. 

There is so much drama in this one story, I really loved it. There was one thing that I didn't like and that was how

the characters in the book knew about the attempted rape of the main character and they just gloss over it because it's apparently a thing that happens often. That pissed me off, this needed to be handled better.

Overall I'm giving this 4.5 stars out of 5
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Wow, I really liked this short novella even though it was sad and a bit predictable. I never trusted or even liked Aidan so this gives me further reason to hold a grudge against him. This was short, only about 80 pages or so. I recommend this be read after you've read The Illuminae Files.

I enjoyed this so I'm giving it 4.5 stars out of 5. 
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This was a quick listen that I plan to go back and listen to this audiobook again. I really enjoyed the poems in this book, they were so moving and they perfectly depicted life as a Black queer femme in the US. Some of them were hard to get through,

the one about Sandra Bland made me tear up, the one about the mentally ill victims of force sterilizations made me cry.

Actually, a lot of the poems on this book left me feeling sensitive and vulnerable. 

Overall I'm going to give this 5 out of 5 stars 
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This was really a quick and easy guide to sex and disability, just like the title says. It talks a little bit about consent, how to ask for permission to handle your partner as an able bodied person, how to incorporate toys into the bedroom fun, a reminder to use lube consistently, as well as some other pointers. 

I enjoyed the art and the message the book shares. There was a little information about the different types of disabilities and I wish the book could have gone more into that but I understand that it's called "a quick and easy guide" for a reason. 

Overall I wish this could have been longer but I understand why it wasn't. I'm giving this 4 stars out of 5. 
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Okay, wow. This was a thing. I know Cassandra Clare used to write Harry Potter fanfic in her LiveJournal days (and she used to bully teens on LJ as well), and in her some of her HP fanfics she would write Ron and Ginny as being in a romantic relationship, even though they're siblings. So she obviously has an interest in incest because this whole incest plotline is just a replay of her Ron/Ginny fanfics. I can't stand it, it makes my skin crawl. 

Ignoring the incest issue, this book was really boring for about 60% of the way through and then after that point the action started to pick up. When the action picked up I just remember thinking "why should I care about these characters?" Most of the characters, like Alec and Isabell, are one dimensional characters and I have no interest in them. 

Isn't Magnus a 1,000 year old Warlock? Why is he dating a 17 year old Alec? Why is he interested in dating a teen, he's old as hell. He's way too old to be dating Alec, that's worst than some Bella and Edward, Twilight shit. 

I might continue this series because I recently found 20 Clare books at a thrift store and this series was among the books I found.

I want to see what happens when Jocelynn wakes up and I want to know what it means now that Simon can go into the light despite being a Vampire, after he drank Jace's blood.

I don't know if it's worth it to read the rest of the series to find out or if it would be better to just look up spoilers. 

This book was a miss for me. 

I'm giving it 2.5 (rounded up to 3) stars out of 5 stars 
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The Gargoyle's Captive is the third book in the "A Deal With a Demon" series by Katee Robert. I liked this a little better than the second book, The Kraken's Sacrifice, but I didn't like this as much as the first book, The Dragon's Bride. 

There's too much trauma and drama in this erotica for me.

At one point the main female love interest, Grace, sets the Gargoyle on fire, and then she yells at him saying that he shouldn't pull such dangerous stunts. It was bizarre. Then there's the whole bit where we all find out that Grace's mother was the one that killed the Gargoyle's family that he's still mourning. Just too much drama and not enough sex.

The spice was okay, I'm giving this 3 chilies out out 5 chilies 🌶️🌶️🌶️ worth of spice. 

Overall, this was okay. It wasn't great and it's not something I'd read again, but it was alright. I'm giving it three stars. 
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Why are her werewolves trash? They hate gay people and don't accept them because "they're actual predicators and even MORE aggressive than the straight werewolf." Then the wolves are misogynistic and they view women poorly and as the weakest links of their packs. Why though? 

This was just as boring as Alpha and Omega and Cry Wolf. Someone promised me that Mercy Thompson was THEE paranormal urban fantasy series to get into. I read Cry Wolf and it's prequel novella and gave them both 2 stars. 

There's little to no action until about 60% of the way through the book, it took me 10 days to finish this, it was so boring. 

This is the last Patricia Briggs book I'm reading, I tried three separate times and all three reads got 2 stars from me. 

I'm giving this two stars. 
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