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...
After signing up for the Worlds Without Ends Women of Genre Fiction year long reading challenge, I had to choose who I wanted to read and what I wanted to read by them. Conveniently, the website had a list of authors and their books. I tried to choose authors I hadn’t heard of or read before. Among ...
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"Love Bucket"p 141"She was responsible for the things she chose. That was all."p 201"There are never guarantees in life. But for those who strive, who dream and believe, who live with an open heart, and dare to love, it is almost certain that joy will come to you."p 219"How is anyone 'really' more...
Picked this up only because the cover and inside illustrations were done by Jillian Tamaki, whose art I really like. It was a good story and decent read, though I'm not really into fantasy or magic, so I can't say I liked it all that much. It just wasn't my genre, even though I generally like dark A...
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