koolkas

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It was okay. Pissed me off a bit because Odessa did all the heavy lifting for the family and ended up being dead.

I thought it was pretty good. Not very scary but it was fun.

Very fun book! Mexican mythology with superpowers and cutthroat competition. Light weekend read that has you rooting for Teo.

A gay drunkard priest; a buff, sarcastic knight; and their adoptive Jesus daughter go demon slaying. Lots of detached hands.

Don't burn me at the stake for this. I think it's overrated. Shock factor pulls most of the weight here. I'm not a huge fan on how masculinity is defined in this book. It feels very... bioessentialist? I really did not enjoy the first ten pages of cock and ball torture and I failed to empathise with him at all.

The fight scenes were alright. That was its saving grace. But if I have to read another penis penis penis scene that's only in the book for the shock value I think I'm going to hurl. I don't mind sex scenes if they explore the character and how they communicate, but it's all the same. Just rough fucking and fighting. It's meh.

Some really good stories here written by underrated Indonesian talent.

Made me cry like a milkless baby.

Nearly dropped because I thought it was going to be predictable, turns out I was dead wrong. Pun may or may not be intended.

Read in one sitting.

A weekend read. Not long and not heavy. Really enjoyed reading this book.

Typical Marvel movie - everybody makes witty quips and pop culture references, everybody is intelligent and plot remains fun and lighthearted. Some of the descriptions are lacking and if I didnt know what kaijus looked like I'd be stuck and confused trying to imagine it

If you take this book as-is it's very unrealistic, like what are the statistical chances the fate of the world rests on an American couple? Specifically gay couple with an Asian child.

The book kind of works as a metaphor on religions being homophobic and regular people unknowingly becoming complicit with oppression. If you ever heard the phrase “gay people causing the end of the world” this book takes it up a notch. The execution is a bit meh though and I don't see much of an appeal of a narrative built around torturing the main characters. I feel like the execution ends up as torture porn on an already marginalised community.

A24 movie in book form - dialogue is excellent and the conflict is quiet and introspective. Could have benefitted from a more prosaic writing style to suit the mood but is otherwise a very engrossing read

DNF. Feels so secondary school. Nothing subversive or ground-breaking, just rehashing discussions you would have a month after having interfaith friends. The book isn't brave enough but also isn't introspective enough, in the end it's just pop fiction with an embellishment of religion on it as a selling point. No novelty just weak satire.

What an excellent book. It was the just the perfect amount of philosophical musing; neither highbrow nor juvenile, very conversational, very comforting, and a very good weekend read after a long week.

DNFed.
I have to declare that I'm biased here as an Indonesian whose country was occupied by the Dutch during the setting of this book, dunno why I started reading this book that tried to depict the Dutch as the victims of war when they have been perpetrators of villainy in the Dutch East Indies. I got to Chapter 2 where the Dutch characters of the book mentioned “they should have gassed us like the Jews” and God the victimhood irked me so bad, they still got to go to school and wanted to be gassed? None of the characters intrigued me, the book forces you in the perspective of Isabel who is an insufferable jobless bum.
Truly sorry, I cannot personally read this, not even lesbianism could keep me here.