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man this is hurting my feelings

"he might come back as a monster" transition to tenma telling atom that the real tobio died is seamless and INSANE. URASAWA'S MIND...

the debt to (or possibly ripping off, if i may be so bold) anne rice is obvious but victor and francoise remind me of crimson peak more than anything

tenma you PIECE OF SHIT.

"people don't understand the word ruthless" you will always be famous

lup is still the momentttttt

i liked the style and main character of "sugary deaths," they had attitude. the rest were just fine.

marie fucking howe, man

bloodstained hands like yours: strong beginning but anticlimactic
the boy from hell: good concept but the prose ......
la patasola: actually painful to me, in a good way

dismembered & blood kin didn't grab me, but la boca del lobo did - i feel like it could have been fleshed out into something more than a short story

beware the empty subway car: not sure 2nd person pov was doing much for this but i liked it quite a bit

el viejo de la bolsa: ohh i liked this one a lot. great prose

the nightingale and the lark: fun twist on romeo & juliet
¿dónde está el duende?: slow burn but spooky at the end

"what beauty and the beast needs is more instant attraction" said anna never

darby's partner is DEFINITELY van helsing, right???

get out of there bored gay werewolf. they're going to kill you bored gay werewolf

i shouldn't have read this right after hollywood, ending. that's on me.

i just feel like the critique of parasocial relationships is incompatible with the wish fulfillment romance here and that's actually intensified by the lycanthropy bc the character she fell for was Also A Werewolf and she keeps saying stuff like he's just like colby. well

how many more times can devin possibly tell me about his repression while getting a boner

this book might actually have something interesting to say with its themes if it turns out that someone made devin a werewolf on purpose to manipulate and control him

fairly certain i just read "keyword bouillon" when the author meant boolean.

not only did she actually break up with him but she did it off page. well, ok

i like the way lim writes budding romance. which i can't say about everyone

don't believe anyone who tells you the oxen of the sun is boring unless you don't obsessively love surveys of english literature. but who doesn't love that?

forgotten beasts of eld reference? on page 7?

"she has good news, she says
she has seen him, she has spoken to him
and he has told her
that all their fears were for naught
their understanding of themselves was correct and true
and the shame, the mountains and valleys of shame, were not needed."

i take a brutal hit emotionally whenever i remember that no one else knows about this book. and yeah maybe it was JUST written for me and other odyssey-beowulf-hdmheads who love intricate plotting and reading the same sentences 3 times to get all the hidden meanings BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULDN'T READ IT TOO.

well I'm doing my best but now that i'm past the lestrygonians i might truly be lost (things odysseus could also have said but let's not worry about that)