ominousspectre's reviews
244 reviews

In the myths, asuras can be both benevolent or evil. Like gods or demons. If we have the chariots of the gods at our disposal, what use is there for gods? What if the next soldiers who go forth into space become demons with the power of gods?

I love Das so much and I NEED to get their new novella ASAP!!!!!

Cheat on your husband girl! Lock him in the bedroom! Feminism!!!

All jokes aside I enjoyed reading this even though I don't necessarily think it was...good? It's like watching one of those goofy Lifetime movies. Is this quality? No. Am I having fun? Weirdly yes. She should've ramped up the horror though, too chaste imo.

The World War 3 addition felt out of place. It's not what's keeping people on the island, so why?

The random love triangle felt very out of left field too. Like girl I also hate your husband but control yourself for five seconds!!

Even weirder when the thing that ruined her life previously was having an affair with a married man? I need you to learn some restraint bestie. And every man that validates you is not immediate relationship material.

I skimmed some of the ones I wasn't vibing with so instead of a full ranking, here's the ones I really liked:

The Third Bear
Felt very folktale, even with the

Mord

easter egg.
Finding Sonoria
I love places that don't exist.
Predecessor
This had Poe undertones.
Fixing Hanover
Def my second favorite. The maker meets its made.
Shark God vs Octopus God
Another myth type one. A little goofy at times honestly but I didn't mind.
Three Days in a Border Town
Easily my favorite. A moving city you can only catch in glimpses? You've sold me sir.
Surgeon's Tale
I mostly liked this because it felt like an alternate backstory to Locked Tomb series Jod if he somehow sucked in a different way. 

*dubiously* mind the tags

D: they matched each other's freak

I've been a fan of this illustrator for a while and I'm so glad I finally picked this up. I would've been sooo annoying about this a kid

So I'm on a quest to heal my relationship with straight romance because it used to cause me a horrendous amount of dysphoria, but now I understand I just wanted to be the boy the whole time lol.

This one is cute and gentle. I think the only reason I'm not rating it higher is because the love triangle started to get on my nerves. Every time there's a love triangle I'm like okay why don't you all just kiss about it? Or if I had a crush on a friend and they started dating someone I'd be like oh, good for you! And not be possessive and weird. But maybe I am just built different 

The premise of a darker retelling of Rumpelstiltskin drew me to this book. The first chapter is really well done, and I can tell this author likely excels in his short stories (where he's clearly acclaimed).

After that, I could tell right away this is Dad Book Horror. There was an almost confusing nostalgia reading this as it felt like stealing Stephen King or Dean Koontz off my dad's shelf at a Way Too Young Age™. However, I'm an adult now.

The way women are talked about? Breasting Boobily.

People of color? Not great! Indigenous people specifically? Now we're bordering on HP Lovecraft levels of 'primitives worshipping an evil old god'.

All THAT aside (if you can possibly do so for a moment), the story is incredibly meandering? Building tension doesn't mean spending an entire chapter regaling us with the mc's children's lives. You can build tension in a way that's purposeful. The scares are good, I'll give him that, but come on now. This was published in 2012.

these were my fave books as a kid and since I wasn't raised religious, all of those themes went lalalala right over my head so!!

I have a lot of nostalgia about this book