Hiromi Goto
Birth date: December 31, 1966
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99. HALF WORLD, BY HIROMI GOTO Recommended by Juliana. It was a breath of fresh air after Three Princes... A book that promises something different and actually delivers it! Synopsis: Melanie, an awkward, chubby, and socially inept teenager, arrives home from school to discover her mother has disapp...
To start with, I love the cover of this book, but I remain confused: I believe the character on the left is Melanie in her mother's coat, with Jade Rat on her shoulder, and I'm guessing that the character on the right is her mother, though I say that only from the scarf and the facial similarities....
I almost gave up on this during the very flat (despite hideous monsters and grossness) prologue which explains the three worlds: Life (our world), Spirit (a heaven-like realm where souls are healed before being reborn), and the Half World, which is supposed to be like Purgatory but isn't because by ...
It didn't take long into this book for me to start getting a very fairy tale vibe from it. and now that I've finished it, I feel like that's the intended direction, and I sort of love it for that reason.In Half-World, reality encompasses three realms. First there's the living world (don't have the b...
Not all the stories in this collection are stand-outs, and not all, thankfully, have to do with brides. Datlow and Windling, however, should get a huge round of applause and much credit for bringing back the female beast and male looker instead of just staying to the whole typical Beauty and the Be...
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