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SPA by Erik Svetoft

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dark medium-paced

4.5

so awesome and sick . grotesque!!
Y/N by Esther Yi

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funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

5.0

so beautiful and strange, like a combination of Perfect Blue and Paradise Rot. Delicious prose on parasocial relationships and fanatic stans! The ending was so horrible.
The Guest by Emma Cline

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slow-paced

2.0

idk this was pretty boring. Not super fun to read about a pedophile woman just like being annoying and stupid for this long. I absolutely loved 'The Girls' so I'm disappointed but w/e.  

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His Black Tongue by Mitchell Lüthi

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 45%.
boring
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

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dark emotional mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Late review— i loved this book it was really disgusting and sad and the way eileen was written was unfortunately really relatable (not all of her!!!) but Otessa Moshfegh always seems to be able to say what other authors are too ashamed to. Really incredible read. Short but will stick to you like a bug.

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Audition by Ryū Murakami

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dark slow-paced
  • Loveable characters? No

1.0

I’m ngl this was so boring
Def a movie better than the book situation
Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele, John Joseph Adams

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dark emotional mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

definitely one of the best anthologies I've read so far, each story was so well written and so many of my favorite authors had stories in here which was awesome. There was also a fuckton of queer authors featured in this anthology which is always lit. So many of the stories were really really scary! My favorites were

Reckless Eyeballing - NK Jemison
Invasion of the Baby Snatchers - Lesley Nneka Arimah
Aesthete - Justin C Key
Flicker - LD Lewis
Grief of the Dead - Rion Amilcor Scott (insane)
A Bird Sings by the Etching Tree - Nicole D Sconiers (reminded me of the movie The Dark)
Your Happy Place - Terence Taylor (THE LAMP IS WRONG)
Origin Story - Tochi Onyebuchi (writing on this one was insane, reminded me kind of No One Dies Yet)

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

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dark inspiring mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes

4.0

I loved this it was very sick 
Classic feral feminism book with very cool magical realism undertones. I loved how it was also really about art and performance in addition to motherhood. Very Organ Meats vibes and also really reminded me of A24's BEEF actually?  The plot is kind of similar just without Danny. 
1 star off because I felt like it was missing a little something but i can't put my finger on exactly what.  I really liked
that we don't really know how much of it was "real" but i kinda wish it went more in depth into her 'transformation'? idk.
Neon Genesis Evangelion 3-In-1 Edition, Vol. 1, Volume 1: Includes Vols. 1, 2 & 3 by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

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3.5

love evangelion sm -
Wish the manga was a little different but I’m excited for the later volumes where things in the anime got more crazy