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305 reviews
Le Horla by Guy de Maupassant
sad
fast-paced
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Uncanny X-Men #3 by Gail Simone
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.75
Fantastic, I love the characters old and new, this is definitely shaping up to be one of my favourite series of the new run
X-Men (2024) #5 by Jed Mackay
3.75
This was great, Cassandra Nova was rather unexpected for me I love seeing Psylocke and Quentin on some dark psychic adventure, and would love to get more, I'm sure the Psylocke miniseries will be right up my alley
Phoenix #3 by Stephanie Phillips
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
2.75
This could've been a bit better, I love Corsair but he just doesn't let go of his con-man schtick and it got boring during this issue
X-Men (2024) #4 by Jed Mackay
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
3.0
What are Beast and Cyclops planning? Where's Magneto? Psylocke and Quentin Quire nowhere to be found (spoilers X-Men #5)
Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
It's easy to say this is great Gothic fiction, one of the first and greatest pieces of science-fiction and a horror masterpiece. That's because it is, everything from the character work, the fabulous lines of dialogue ("I shall collect my funeral pile, and consume to ashes this miserable frame, that its remains may afford no light to any curious and unhallowed wretch, who would create such another as I have been. I shall die."), and in particular, taking centre stage in many of the passages, the descriptions of the wild pre-industrial European landscapes, with lush and dark forests of green, running rivers, castles in ruin. This all to evoke a sense of gloom and dark in the reader that so few works of fiction have managed to hold me by.
I was aware I'd like this, but not that I would absolutely love it, my library's copy has now been dogmarked to oblivion, and previously to mine reading it, some other lucky one managed to underline passages throughout the novel that help only to pay even more attention to the wording. It deserves every praise and every sense of worth as a great novel.
I was aware I'd like this, but not that I would absolutely love it, my library's copy has now been dogmarked to oblivion, and previously to mine reading it, some other lucky one managed to underline passages throughout the novel that help only to pay even more attention to the wording. It deserves every praise and every sense of worth as a great novel.
Les cendres a la piscina by Laura Gost
emotional
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
És preciós, aquest llibre; una història de la tristor i de crèixer, que relata les vides enreversades dels personatges que populen una Mallorca canviant. Em fa pensar sovint, llegint aquest text, en els meus amics i llurs contes i històries de llurs pobles, de la Vila Joiosa i de Burjassot, del Campello i Xàbia, del Cabanyal mateix, enfrontats tots a un món que canvia veloçment i deixa enrere a molts; la tragèdia d'en Sebastià n'és una d'un home excèntric i vividor, molts en dirien el típic "cunyat" espanyol, i ben potser sí, però és alhora una vida trista, plena de decepcions, de lloances a qui no se les mereix i de decisions que sovint no sabem ben bé pas per què les prenguem, però en fem tot i manera. Pocs llibres m'hauran marcat tan estranya i bellament com aquest.
Canto jo i la muntanya balla by Irene Solà
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Adore, m'encisa l'escriptura de la Irene Solà; possiblement la veu més interessant amb què m'he trobat els darrers anys dins de la literatura de l'estat espanyol (no puc parlar-ne de la catalana, car no n'he llegit prou, del modern). Reflecta una veu d'una Catalunya perduda, les dones oblidades arran de la guerra civil i la posterioritat a la dictadura, les seues novel·les em fan sentir el què un nou àlbum dels Manel, em dóna els aires d'una muntanya perduda al prepirineu català, amb què m'emsomnie i m'hi perc, als seus boscos eterns, amb llurs bèsties desconegudes. Mai no em cansaré de tornar a llegir la seua obra, i n'estic ansiós del què vindrà.