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Road to the country was a tough read. The best I’ve read on Biafra including its horrors. Now finishing up ‘the fishermen’ by same author and without a doubt, Chigozie Obioma is one of the best story tellers on the continent. This particular book feels like a modern day fable.

A book with the unenviable task of making sense of New York by personifying its unique borrows and doing a pretty good job of making a cosmic threat tale out of it.

The panels are some of the most interesting ones I’ve seen in recent times and while the story does seem familiar, the way it is drawn and depicted makes it a pretty unique experience.

Devil’s reign feels like marvel’s attempt at addressing what they didn’t get right with Civil War II.

More fluid story, pacing and action … better villain(s) too, at least motivation wise.

The world building is impressive. I mean who isn’t intrigued by an apocalyptic world where mechas wrought carnage as they please and a group of rag tag humans have to dismantle this messed up order.

No seriously, this book is a fun read but I must point out, there are some tropes that fell flat to me. Mostly the love angle and how easily disposable a certain character/love angle was. In fact it felt hollow

The world building is impressive. I mean who isn’t intrigued by an apocalyptic world where mechas wrought carnage as they please and a group of rag tag humans have to dismantle this messed up order.

No seriously, this book is a fun read but I must point out, there are some tropes that fell flat to me. Mostly the love angle and how easily disposable a certain character/love angle was. In fact it felt hollow

I love this series. Beautiful written and some of the best artwork I have seen in print. Highly recommended.

It’s peculiarly unique, and it excels at delivering a pretty good story whilst dissecting the role of stories in our lives.

Authors like Colson whitehead and Donald Goines write about the inner city in such a way/perspective that breaks down go interconnected things are, including the way crime thrives based on dysfunction. All systems end up being exploited, especially when people are so corruptible.

What fascinates me about this book, is how it critiques American bureaucracy from a perspective of a mental healthy asylum and how said administrative inadequacies affects everyone associated with it.

Galgut writes about grief so beautifully better yet he writes about human dysfunction in such a somber manner. Hard not to be enchanted by the story and its characters.

Having difficulties with this. Not because of the grand ideas, but because every fiction book is a forced perspective, given from author to reader and I seem to disagree a lot with how this particular story is told so far.

The controversies about the book have been interesting to follow. I listened to the audio version instead of reading it, so a character like Liu for instance I didn’t pick up on the spelling of the name until much later on. I have read some of the takes on the book including tackling topics such as diversity and racism. I’ll leave that to others, but my main qualm with the book is how unlikable El really is.

Simply looking at this book, when it was written, the problems it highlighted and how much of said problems are still prevalent, in terms of progress, have we really made much of those? Especially in the lives of low wage workers.

This was a sad book to read, primarily because I could relate to so many aspects of it, knowing how exploitative low wage work is in the country.

The plot in itself is intriguing enough. Typical King, another instance of the real world clashing with the supernatural. The problem with this book being every character is pretty much unlikeable most notably its protagonist.

I listened to the audio version, so the main character and his woes were particularly grating.

So many quotables in Tanehisi’s ‘between the world and me.’ Such beautiful writing. Not sure calling it a coming of age story does it justice but I love how he takes us through the different phases of his life and how he becomes the person he is now.

The end was unexpected but it's fantastic reading as usual

The final book of the series (that I've read so far) which also happens to be the final book that I read this year. Thankfully it's my favorite. I love or have noticed how this series tries to dissect humanity and the various belief systems that guide and in a lot of instances, divide us.

I love what's being done with this book, building on events of the last. Jensen continues to be a thorn in the sides of the illuminati though it seems even he has limits.