nadas's reviews
148 reviews

so rushed :/ 
this could be so much better as a series

The first part or two were fun. Towards the half when I realized we weren't gonna get any deeper into linguistics she kinda lost me.

This book is so bloated with anecdotes it might as well be a memoir. While I don't mind anecdotes in nonfiction, if anything I do like them,  this was just annoying after a while and frankly I don't care about all these people she was talking to. Where is the linguistics focusd research?? oh scattered here and there at an extremely surface level but let's spend a whole chapter talking about how she and her friend she thought was more confident than her was "kidnapped" (they were not) by Scientologists. 

I only enjoyed this because I listened to it. I would've probably dnfed after the first 2 parts if I read this physically 

a miss for me :( the dialogue was so boring and overall it was just very boring to read
but it's also satisfying to see how much his writing has changed since then what an icon 

Urban fantasy based on Filipino folklore and mythology! I think the story was really fun although alittle confuusing and disjointed at times. Some scenes reminded me of Junji Ito's work although alittle less visceral. 
I didn't like the sketchy artstyle at first but it grew on me but i LOVED the colour palette here.

Was even more impressive after reading the afterwords where there were different palettes for the different worlds

 
Overall I enjoyed it, despite the storytelling not being as seamless as I wouldve prefered but in a way it adds to the atmosphere of the story, makes you feel like the lead character so not necessarily a bad thing. Definitely underrated. I think this would be a great animated movie too. 

omg she did it again ily ml Wang  

Reading this was a foreshadowing to my day lmao. 
but yeah I could do with it's message of finding the good in a seemingly ruined day