Angela
i understand that it's someone's life and you can't really rate it and i did consider not giving a rating at all but it feels unfair to me
it was way too pretentious and self-obsessed for me (though i do think that the latter was often the point)
and i don't understand the format
i'm sorry, fight me but it's not a poetry if there's no rhyme
There are two quotes I really liked so I want to save them here
‘The strange thing is that in here I'm more alone than anywhere else, and yet it's the one place I don't feel quite so lonely.'
‘I am the first and the last and the in-between. I am Oz.'
My favourite chapter was #12. I think the story of how Oz came to be is so interesting and well-told.
Funny thing is that I liked this novella so much more than the actual story.
I was wrong about two things in my predictions and I couldn't be happier about it. First is Kei's adviser NOT being a traitor and a spy. I was sure he was. I'm glad I was wrong. Second thing is doctor dying near the end. For how many clichés there were in this book I was sure this one will occur as well. I'm glad it didn't.
But the whole foreshadowing thing... god! Really?! Couldn't it have been a little less obvious? And I don't mean the fairytale aspects of the story. I mean the lost princess trope. I'm sorry but it was too painful to read. It was all but spelled out with actual words.
My favourite part surprisingly was politics. I really enjoyed the scene of the Earth Leaders meeting. In fact, it was probably my favourite scene in the whole book.
Overall it was an okay book, like a 2 — 2,5 out of 5. Wasn't that great — especially for the amount of hype surrounding it — but still could have been worse, I guess.
oh, and there wasn't nearly enough cyberpunk for me. half of the time I didn't understand why it was cyberpunk in the first place. i expected more space i guess.
I don't know how I feel about it. On the one hand it was really disturbing and with some other atmosphere would have been even scary and creepy but on the other hand with the atmosphere we have, it seems... ok? I don't know, I felt like the whole thing was normalising abusive (or pre- abusive?) relationship and stalkering but then again as I always say manga does not portray anything, especially yaoi manga, it just tells a story, mostly for enjoyment. Like, you know, if you like the love stories with stalkers you should read it – it's got your kink or fetish or whatever you wanna call it in it. And I usually don't mind anything in manga because it's not supposed to represent anything or you know, spread any messages but this particular story just doesn't sit well with me. Maybe because one of the characters actually points out that this whole thing is wrong, but then again they seem to genuinely love each other and be ok with everything but then again the other guy was manipulated quite a lot and I can see how this can become extremely dangerous in the future. Ahhhh, I don't know. I'm so confused.
20.12.22
this is very different from what i remember. i think i actually like it now. also it reads much more like a romcom than i remember. like in my mind i thought there is a scene in this where the main character gets chained up to the bed. i guess it's from some other one
That was THE most awkward and facepalming manga I've ever read. And that's saying smth.
And i know that it's comedy and for comedy this art style is good but i didn't like it. Even more so when i noticed that the close ups to their faces were really beautiful so the mangaka can draw and i wish she showed it more.
I didn't understand the older brother's part like at all (i mean yukito) and considering the fact that he was the most interesting thing about the story I'm really pissed off. Like why add a character like that and not explain one bit about him? What the heck?
Also the point of Aruma was really wierd. Like what was it? An exposition guy? A guy characters gonna talk to so the story would progress? I mean really?
We practically have two characters here and they are not even so great. There's a potential for a deep maybe even tragic story but it's wasted. Like the ACTUAL brothers, there's smth going on between them or Kuruto himself like the way he treated Enishi and how he clearly have some trauma. But everything is only hinted and doesn't lead to anything.
I'm disappointed.
So finally got to reading it.
I liked characters in the tv series better. They seemed more likable, more mature. Same goes for the parents. I just hated them here. Well, more so Spenser's and Emily's but still.
Everything else is pretty much the same. I mean, I alredy know what's going to happen but it's still interesting to read.
We'll see how it goes.
Finally!
I don't know what it is about Clare's books but they are so hard to read for me.
And I thought it would finally be a three star book for me.
Yeah, right.
This is the book in which Alec makes stupid things and Magnus breaks up with him (you go, Magnus!).
This is the book in which stuff goes down and all characters think about is sex.
And even after that I found this one to be the most entertaining of the series yet but then I remembered what a struggle it was for me to read it and no, just no. I can't give it a three star rating.
I like the sarcasm but it was a little too sweet for me.
I wanted there to be some drama. Like for example some storyline with Robert or Scarlet or smth. We hear all those stereotypes about rich ppl bur then everybody are so nice, and even the grandparents who, btw, disowned their own pregnant daughter. Why should all of that be forgotten? Just because Susan is sick and grandad have the same sense of humour as Caymen has? I feel like this should take a lot more time and effort for Susan to form a relationship w/ her parents again.
I don't know, I just feel like it wasn't very realistic. I needed more actual life. It was nice and sweet and funny but not very believable.
i like hate to love stories
it was cute and i liked sarcams (i'm starting to understand that it's kasie's distinctive feature)
i could relate to this one quite a bit though. i do write song lyrics on the desks and in notebooks. i like doing that and it's a way for me to get a song out of my head (not really helpful but still).
i hated Lyli's friend and family in the beginning, they seemed so selfish and i just wanted Lily to say smth like “piss off, i need to smth for myself”. i hated how they made her feel guilty about wanting smth for herself when she always did what she was asked to. like when her guitar was broken and she wouldn't hug her brother (who supposedly has broken it) and then her mother was seeing it as wrong and making her feel guilty. no! yoг have every right to be angry, you should be angry. i would give him a silent treatment and not even think twice about it.so yeah, i didn't like how other charecters would make her feel guilty and then use it. and it doesn't matter if they are aware of it or not.
the romance i was fine w/. ae i said, i love hate to love stories.
So, i wasn't sure if i wanted to write smth here or not. I mean i do have some things to say but at the same time there's nothing particularly interesting. Probably because the book itself wasn't that interesting. It somewhat reminded me of reading someone's twitter conversation. Like if i was following four people and they would talk about each other and post their thoughts and sometimes i would read different people talking about the same ‘event' so to speak. So, i guess if we were to talk about the writing of this one i would say there wasn't one. There were a bunch of dialogues and a bunch of inner thought monologues and that's it.
But then on the other hand i think there was a quite accurate depiction of some thoughts and struggles ppl might have. Like i did believe that was exactly what a biofobic person would think or a person who questions ones sexuallity. I did believe in fears and doubts characters were having. Like the commitment problem or the should-we-stay-friends-or-should-we-try-and-become-smth-more problem. I think it all was shown pretty well. And maybe the writing did help because i was feeling like being a part of a conversation, part of a story. Like i was the one on the other end of the phone trying to come up with some advise to a friend or like i was having a lunch with a friend and talking with him about that guy he met the other day. So i don't know. It was a weird experience but i liked it ok.