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This book works best if you can read in long stretches, but man, it gets dense and weird.

This is a fairy story. You can't fool me. This is an old-fashioned fairytale.

I've already admitted I'm biased, but Idk if having your Native character admit that he's a little stereotypical as a character makes the writing better.

ARE YOU JOKING

I love a journal as a storytelling device as much as the next guy, but I HATE "oh no, something's happening, better write until it gets to me and this entry ends abrup-" chapters. NO ONE does this!! Call the cops!!

Coupled with "guy reads that kind of entry and thinks 'Hm what does this mean'" is infuriating! This dude is a bad therapist and a worse detective who just puts people in danger.

I'm always hesitant to read works "inspired by" the beliefs or culture of a group the author does not belong to, and even more so when that's Native beliefs, which are already hit by both "wow so mystical and mysterious" and "constantly being butchered."

The note on why he wrote this in this way does make him appear well-meaning, but it's also got an undercurrent of "because I wanted to," which isn't reassuring.

Supposedly, the author was a psychotherapy student, and that inspired some of this setting and plot. I'm not sure he was a very good one.

The hallway makes my stomach hurt.

So immediately sad. Just. Damn. What a start.

I have the sneaking suspicion that this book sucks.

Can't tell if the narrator is a secret bad guy or the author just has an insufferable voice.

I adore Selena and Copper already.

21 pages in, and I absolutely understand why reading this digitally would be a different experience entirely.

John Green is excellent at alternating between the enormous scope of the history of tuberculosis and the personal tragedy of those infected.

Kirie is finally getting a clue just when Shuichi is, completely reasonably, going totally insane over all this.

He's a great narrator. I didn't realize how far into this I had gotten.

Reading this is crazy because every now and then, it has something super cool that I love, which is immediately followed by something incredibly boring.

"Horrors beyond my comprehension! Neat!" - Kirie, apparently.

Parts of this are fascinating, but they just don't get explored enough.

This is...pretty basic. A little bland, even.

This is fine so far. Lots of abuse very early on. The horror is partially due to that with plenty of extra supernatural-related wiggling room. Guess we'll see how it goes.

I want to like this so much, but every time something I'm interested in happens, they immediately change the subject.

This is just thiiis close to being interesting.

This I'd just thiiis close to being interesting.

Just can't put this down. I keep pausing my game or music or whatever else I'm doing to read a couple of pages.

Damn, it's sad, though.

This has been on my TBR for a while, but the movie has me worried for spoilers, so I bumped it up the list a bit.

Already really in love with the writing style and concept.

Some of these are great. Some of them are boring. They're all pretty short, though.

It's an interesting setting for what we've seen. Long enough book that I'm hoping they get really into it.

Very mixed bag, so far.

I very rarely prefer an audiobook, but this narrator does a truly perfect job.