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In this story you follow a Tea Monk and a Robot who end travelling together to find the answers they both need. This is also a story about accepting that what you believe to be your purpose in life can change in time and that you don’t need to hold yourself accountable to find a purpose.

I’ve seen this series get recommended so many times and heard it get hyped up. And to be honest it fell flat for me. I get what the message of this book is and I think others will love this but I was just wanting more. But, I’m also a person who needs to either get amazing world building or fall in love with a character for things to work for me. 

This is a cozy fantasy novella with some great quotes like this one, “it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.” But, it’s just not for me.

I was really excited to get to this as natural disasters have always intrigued me. But, I probably should have paid attention to the subtitle and realised that I would be getting more than the storm. As for the actual storm it doesn’t arrive until the 65% mark. Which is not what I thought going into this book. There was also a word used that made me clock this book as being released in the early 2010s (or prior) that happened around the 70% mark.

If I hadn’t expected the book to be mainly about the storm I mostly likely would of enjoyed this more. It focuses a lot on flaws made during this time by humans and serves as a warning. 

An imperial prison barge named Purge ends up breaking down and their only hope is a Star Destroyer that is drifting and seemingly abandoned. But, when half the boarding party comes back everything starts to go wrong as they all start to fall ill.

Star Wars mixed with zombies I didn’t enjoy Red Harvest that much but I did like Death Troopers a little more. I appreciated how Joe Schreiber wrote two well-known characters into this cast of new ones. That being said if you aren’t going into this book just looking for a fun time you aren’t going to like this. And I will admit the first maybe a hundred pages weren’t that entertaining. The audiobook was phenomenal and added so much to the story I highly recommend consuming this book in that format.

Cherry Magic is a bl manga series about a 30 year old named Adachi who acquires the ability to read the minds of others by touching them after his birthday because he’s a virgin and discovers one of his coworkers has a crush on him (weird premise I know). I have to admit that this manga series is challenging for me. Don’t get me wrong I still enjoy it and plan to finish it. But, like with a lot of books when I start to feel second hand embarrassment it becomes a struggle to continue reading. I’m hoping that the farther I get into this series the more I’ll enjoy it.

As for this volume it took me nearly 3 hours to get through this which is pretty normal for me with this series as I tend to read a chunk, put it down and repeat until it’s finished. There were quite a few scenes that I found adorable and made me smile which happens with every volume and is the reason I continue to read them. The good continues to outweigh the embarrassment but I’m glad I’m borrowing these from the library.

I was expecting a little more from this volume since it’s the final one. The artwork was great and the story kept me captivated but I’m glad I borrowed these volumes from the library as I don’t know if I’d read this again.

I feel like the farther I get into this series the more I’m going to enjoy it. I’m looking forward to reading the rest that’s out.

I’m interested but I’m not fully sold on this yet.

I soft dnf’ed this for almost two months because Ginny annoyed me so much and to be honest I had no plans to pick this back up but I decided I would finish the last ten chapters just to say I finished the book. I ended up enjoying the last part but if I read this without the break from it I don’t think I would have rated this higher than one and a half stars.