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thenerdybookwitch's Reviews (678)
Last year Yuu Watase blew me away with Fushigi Yugi, which became one of my favourite manga series immediately after finishing it. Well, here is another one and it is just as great if not a little better. Imagine you and your twin brother having a wonderful teenage life. You've got friends, loving parents, and the whole world is your oyster. Then it's both of your birthdays and you're turning 16, which you're very excited for. Your family wants to celebrate so you both go to the family estate and then..they tell you that you need to die so they all can live. Why? Because you are the reincarnation of Ceres, a vengeful celestial maiden that is endlessly reborn to into the women of your family to seek revenge.
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This series is amazing, I didn't expect anything less from Yuu Watase. She knows how to create interesting, heartbreaking, and beautiful stories to perfection. Her art is always gorgeous, her writing always powerful. And her characters of course are all great. I cared for them all, and the amount of development they all go through makes me so happy. This was way more mature than I was expecting and I loved it. I cried, I laughed, I screamed with joy and yelled in frustration. Everything I could experience as a reader, I experienced with Ceres Celestial Legend.
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My only warning, which is the same warning I gave for Fushigi Yugi, a lot of mature subject matter. Very heavy mature subject matter. The main character is older than the one from Fushigi Yugi but is still a teen so if that bothers you then don't read Ceres. But if you all give this series a shot, I think you are definitely in for a very unique and powerful manga series. I highly recommend Ceres Celestial Legend.
5/5⭐️
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This series is amazing, I didn't expect anything less from Yuu Watase. She knows how to create interesting, heartbreaking, and beautiful stories to perfection. Her art is always gorgeous, her writing always powerful. And her characters of course are all great. I cared for them all, and the amount of development they all go through makes me so happy. This was way more mature than I was expecting and I loved it. I cried, I laughed, I screamed with joy and yelled in frustration. Everything I could experience as a reader, I experienced with Ceres Celestial Legend.
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My only warning, which is the same warning I gave for Fushigi Yugi, a lot of mature subject matter. Very heavy mature subject matter. The main character is older than the one from Fushigi Yugi but is still a teen so if that bothers you then don't read Ceres. But if you all give this series a shot, I think you are definitely in for a very unique and powerful manga series. I highly recommend Ceres Celestial Legend.
5/5⭐️
Hunting Prince Dracula was a breeze to read, Escaping From Houdini took me a few months. Let's get right to the review:
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What I love about this book is the characters. Especially Audrey Rose and Thomas Cresswell, they carry the weight of the story as well as they have in the other two installments. Old and new characters in short are as wonderful as Kerri Maniscalco writes them. Speaking of which, the writing is great! It kept me going until the end even though it took me so long. This book had a lot of fascinating ideas that I loved and the suspense was as good as ever.
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My biggest issue with Escaping From Houdini was it's very shoehorned subplot. It was absolutely unnecessary. If the subplot had existed in the second book, I may have understood it and been more accepting of it being there. But this is the third book. Everything to deal with characters is already established and this weird subplot just made it stick out like an unwanted sore thumb. It was the main reason why I struggled with reading this book, and if it was not in it I would've loved it as much as Hunting Prince Dracula.
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There was a lot of qualities that I really loved about Escaping From Houdini that I think is worth checking out. I wouldn't recommend it for the subplot but for everything else, it is worth a read.
4/5⭐️
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What I love about this book is the characters. Especially Audrey Rose and Thomas Cresswell, they carry the weight of the story as well as they have in the other two installments. Old and new characters in short are as wonderful as Kerri Maniscalco writes them. Speaking of which, the writing is great! It kept me going until the end even though it took me so long. This book had a lot of fascinating ideas that I loved and the suspense was as good as ever.
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My biggest issue with Escaping From Houdini was it's very shoehorned subplot. It was absolutely unnecessary. If the subplot had existed in the second book, I may have understood it and been more accepting of it being there. But this is the third book. Everything to deal with characters is already established and this weird subplot just made it stick out like an unwanted sore thumb. It was the main reason why I struggled with reading this book, and if it was not in it I would've loved it as much as Hunting Prince Dracula.
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There was a lot of qualities that I really loved about Escaping From Houdini that I think is worth checking out. I wouldn't recommend it for the subplot but for everything else, it is worth a read.
4/5⭐️
I've been a huge fan of Dracula for many many years. This is my fifth time rereading this wonderful classic and it holds a special place dearly in my heart. It occurred to me that I have never reviewed Dracula despite my reading it once every year. So here I've finally sat down and typed up this review for you guys of one of my favourite books, let's dive in:
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I love Dracula. It is a very unique book with wonderful writing and clever ideas. Most of what Bram Stoker has brought to horror has carried on into the 21st Century with his vampire novel. The journal entries brought a sense of realism and you care about the characters a lot more because you read through their own experiences. The character developments and plot is amazing, beautifully detailed. The imagery is so precise that you can perfectly imagine what the settings look like. And Whitby itself is written into nearly an exact replica of the one in real life in modern England (I have been there myself and I instantly recognized it from what Stoker wrote which made this book even more special to me). The moods and atmosphere of suspense is amazing as well.
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I could truly go on and on about Dracula, hell even write a book about why I think it's great. This book molded and shaped a lot of what we see now in the horror genre and vampire novels today. It is such a unique book and a great experience, I highly recommend it to everyone. It's also worth reading just to say you did, really it is a fantastic book.
5/5⭐️
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I love Dracula. It is a very unique book with wonderful writing and clever ideas. Most of what Bram Stoker has brought to horror has carried on into the 21st Century with his vampire novel. The journal entries brought a sense of realism and you care about the characters a lot more because you read through their own experiences. The character developments and plot is amazing, beautifully detailed. The imagery is so precise that you can perfectly imagine what the settings look like. And Whitby itself is written into nearly an exact replica of the one in real life in modern England (I have been there myself and I instantly recognized it from what Stoker wrote which made this book even more special to me). The moods and atmosphere of suspense is amazing as well.
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I could truly go on and on about Dracula, hell even write a book about why I think it's great. This book molded and shaped a lot of what we see now in the horror genre and vampire novels today. It is such a unique book and a great experience, I highly recommend it to everyone. It's also worth reading just to say you did, really it is a fantastic book.
5/5⭐️
