Jonica

Really loved the speculation. Makes me wish I could time travel and see what dinos really looked like

Bro Turkish delight ain't even good

The imagery of the leviathan rising from the waters was so visceral. I felt my breath speed up as if I was running with them.

I just love stories that dont spell everything out

Totally absurd

I loved how liminal the locations were!

honestly struggled to follow along with this one but the vibes were right so I grooved along

Hell yeah to evolution and surrealist paintings

Man that kid is so annoying

Did not expect to be digging on a teenage romance about rugby but I loved it! Also, I genuinely thought this was a stand alone book so that last sentence had me FUCKED UP

Feeling seen as hell as the weirdo who had a FAT ASS crush on Bill nye when I was growing up

Once again another banger from octavia e. Butler. This one is a bit bleak but so compelling

I read the whole thing but as a full collection online so im just counting this as my review for the whole thing.

I really loved the art style and found the homunculi so cool and creative. It felt very cinematic to me and id be curious to see what this would look and sound like through film cause I have a feeling the author has a very strong sense of all of those aspects despite it being restricted to one medium. Despite the craziness of this it felt relatable and I'll be wondering for awhile if he was really seeing hearts or just loony. Also I wish I looked like ito. What a diva

This thing was so racist that it knocked the air right out of me. When oolanga was talking to lady Arabella in the woods I thought I was having a stroke and hallucinating because I had never seen such overt and blatant bigotry written down in plain English before. Like I get that people were generally uncool about black people in the early 1900s but Jesus give it a rest bro like aren't you tired of being a hateful bitch? Also, there are simply not enough snakes. I was promised snakes and all I got was Bram Stoker using the n word with the hard r 1000 times

I think the idea that your compatibility can increase with someone as you grow together is really sweet and it made me smile

Im sorry but this book feels like they had one scene idea and then helplessly attempted to build the book around that one idea. The characters feel flat, all the interesting action parts are so short that I struggle to understand what's happened, and every problem feels like it has zero stakes.

I love whatever is wrong with this author

This feels like it would be such a good play

Yeah id go fucking crazy too if I was being stalked fuck that

I love stories where you don't know what to think 🤔 the agony of not knowing exactly what happened is so sweet

This story was so anxiety inducing, frustrating, real, sorrowful. The characters are so well written. A tragedy that could only happen to a 16 year old.

Was the shitty hand drawing of boobs necessary?

I'm a pretty avid horror reader but I didn't come into the genre easily. I spent most of my life being mesmerized by the mysteries and monsters but being so deeply afraid of being afraid that I couldn't bare to look past the cover of a horror book or watch more than few seconds of a spooky movie. The fear I felt of what "true" fear might feel like was so profound that I couldn't experience much of life at all. I couldn't stay the night at friends houses, go to museums, answer the phone, walk around a corner without anticipating the horror lurking just out of view. It would take some pretty intense antidepressants and a year of letting those marinate before I could dip a toe into the world of horror and when I finally did, nothing could capture the fear I felt for the unknown.

All this to say that this book and its weird little stories might be the closest anythings come to that feeling from when I was a kid. The stories aren't scary (to me), to be honest, the almost feel mundane but it's that mundanity that makes the approach of the unsettling so effective. These stories creep up slow on you and I love how it slightly gets more intense with each story till there's almost a release at the end. This selection of stories is it for me and I will be digging into whatever else Guadeloupe Nettle has in store!

Vibes. Weird vibes. But vibes all the same.

Such a strange and stirring book. There's a 2006 video game called Rule Of Rose that (for me) lives in the same universe as this. Both stories contain an outpouring of complex emotions from little girls who feel so far removed from everyone and everything. As a result, you end up marooned on an island with these girls and go back and forth between despair and tenderness for the experience.