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The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
4.5
saying that this is "more horrifying than i ever would have expected" when this is a book about war feels ridiculous, but it's true.
this book is terrifying and brilliant and its about trauma and i think its really really good and you should read it.
this book is terrifying and brilliant and its about trauma and i think its really really good and you should read it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Faebound by Saara El-Arifi
5.0
“‘How can something from nature be a commodity? Do you tax your rivers for running? Do you pay the trees for their leaves in autumn or charge the sky for its rain?’”
im so normal about this book i promise i promise (im not normal at all about it.
love that in the character guide it had pronouns listed !! never seen that in a book before that was so cool
love that in the character guide it had pronouns listed !! never seen that in a book before that was so cool
Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield
4.0
cute book, i feel slightly nitpicky about the time loop aspects (wouldve been cool if it were more explained) but overall i quite liked this :D
Ode to My First Car by Robin Gow
1.0
:/
the synopsis and the actual plot really dont match:
•i don’t understand why claire and chris are so scared when, like,,, claire has known her best friend, sophia, since they were both four. sophia came out as trans when she was six. if claire’s parents never were weird about that i feel like its a pretty good assumption that they aren’t homophobic.
•claire being “caught between two loves” or whatever the synopsis says really just doesn’t happen. there is no major conflict with Pen and and Pen just gets forgotten about in the plot pretty much.
•Lena was barely there, and she tells no stories about “growing up gay in the fifties and sixties”. she tells maybe two stories, and they both take place when shes an adult.
just in general a frustrating book where i had a very difficult time really caring about any of the characters.
the synopsis and the actual plot really dont match:
•i don’t understand why claire and chris are so scared when, like,,, claire has known her best friend, sophia, since they were both four. sophia came out as trans when she was six. if claire’s parents never were weird about that i feel like its a pretty good assumption that they aren’t homophobic.
•claire being “caught between two loves” or whatever the synopsis says really just doesn’t happen. there is no major conflict with Pen and and Pen just gets forgotten about in the plot pretty much.
•Lena was barely there, and she tells no stories about “growing up gay in the fifties and sixties”. she tells maybe two stories, and they both take place when shes an adult.
just in general a frustrating book where i had a very difficult time really caring about any of the characters.
Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
5.0
two favorites of 2024 finished in one day??? i am on a roll
no but seriously this is a strange surreal fantasy masterpiece and i adore it
no but seriously this is a strange surreal fantasy masterpiece and i adore it
The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
5.0
i barely know what to say about this book, but it has destroyed me.
the marketing for this failed spectacularly, i put off reading this for so long cause it just seemed like a quirky gay astronaut romance set in space and ITS NOT THAT. yes the romance is lovely (look im ace and on the aro spectrum but MAN i have a thing for kodiak. my god what a guy) but its also philosophical and a thriller and i fucking love this book so much i cried and also THE AUDIOBOOK NARRATION IS FANTASTIC
honestly its not surprising that i love this cause i also love stucky :))) so not surprising at all that im unwell over kodiak i love him ohmygodohmygodohmygod
the marketing for this failed spectacularly, i put off reading this for so long cause it just seemed like a quirky gay astronaut romance set in space and ITS NOT THAT. yes the romance is lovely (look im ace and on the aro spectrum but MAN i have a thing for kodiak. my god what a guy) but its also philosophical and a thriller and i fucking love this book so much i cried and also THE AUDIOBOOK NARRATION IS FANTASTIC
honestly its not surprising that i love this cause i also love stucky :))) so not surprising at all that im unwell over kodiak i love him ohmygodohmygodohmygod
I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call by Jamison Shea
Did not finish book. Stopped at 8%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 8%.
dnf’ing because i desperately need to go back and reread i am the beast and the beast is me so i won’t be so confused
These Letters End in Tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere
4.5
gorgeous, gorgeous writing oh my god
i love the format of this book, the usage of second person and the fact that its all addressed to fatima
not my favorite book of the year but easily in my top ten
i love the format of this book, the usage of second person and the fact that its all addressed to fatima
not my favorite book of the year but easily in my top ten