“It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.” #LiuCixin #TheThreeBodyProblem #RememberanceOfEartPast Genre: #Fantasy #SciFi #AsianLiterature #Futurism Books: 1/3 This is... Continue Reading →
"Once written, besides, Neapolitan seems sterilized. It loses passion, loses affect, loses the sense of danger it often communicated to me. In my childhood and adolescence, it was the language of coarse male vulgarity, the language of the violence of men calling to you on the street, or, contrarily the sugary-sweet language with which women... Continue Reading →
"Seems like everyone’s fucked up, only no one looks it from the outside." ~The Hollow Gods Genre: ~Paranormal ~ Urban Fantasy ~ Fantasy ~ Mystery My rating: 4,5 / 5 Books: 1 / 2 Warning: Deaths / Violence / Oncology / Mental triggers (depression, anxiety) / Swearing Some people are just meant to write stories for others,... Continue Reading →
“Funny how that worked; the innocent fragility of being human. There were so many ways to break and so few of them heroic or noble.” Genre: #Fantasy #DarkAcademia #SciFi Books: 1 / 2 Whilst reading this book I had a nudging feeling of reading/watching something similar before. And yeah, read a GR annotation later, it... Continue Reading →
“The Sea God isn't angry, Mina. He's lost. He's waiting, in his palace far beyond this world, for someone brave enough to find him.” Books: 1 / 1 Beautiful story set in the Korean alternate fairytale world. Every year a young girl from the village gets sacrificed for The Sea God and thrown into... Continue Reading →
“A forest in your bones, a graveyard beneath your feet. There are no heroes here.”"Wilderwood" #1 by Hannah Whitten Genre: Fantasy / Romance / Retelling My rating: 4.75 /5 Books: 1 / 2 Warning: Death / Grim moments / Self-harm / Anxiety Inspired by: "The Beauty And The Beast", "The Snow White", "The Blue Bird".... Continue Reading →
“I apologize for anything I might have done. I was not myself.” “I apologize for shooting you in the leg.” said Lila. “I was myself entirely.” Genre: #UrbanFantasy #HistoricalFiction My rating: 5 / 5 Books: 1/3 I might start a new topic: “Books that I’ve avoided for years, but then fell in love with”. I... Continue Reading →
“It might be fine for the one leaving, but the one who is left behind must feel very, very sad.” 🎈Genre: Asian Literature - Fiction - Mystery - Contemporary 🌟My rating: 4.5 / 5 Yet again, wonderful book that has been missed by many. I’ve read "The Perfect World Of Miwako Sumida" last year, loved that book,... Continue Reading →
“Don't underestimate youngsters today, especially in this sick society. From young age, kids must learn how to survive in a jungle of deceitful adults.” Genre: #Mystery #Crime #Detective #AsianLiterature My rating: 4 / 5 Warning: Suicide, cyber bullying, groping. What starts as a fairly typical story written by the Asian author, involving - poor family, orphans, suicide, becomes an eye... Continue Reading →
“Peace has a price. If your right hand causes you to fall, cut it off and throw it far away from you. That’s what I did, you know? When we change ourselves, little girl, we change the entire universe. Because what is outside is like what sins aside...what is inside.” Genre: #HighFantasy #SteamPunk #Romance My... Continue Reading →
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