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Sieghart

Sieghart

"Plough the lilies"
After 15 years, Naruto finally officially ended it's serialization. Been following the series for 10 years so i got a pretty emotional reading the last chapters. It's been a pretty fun ride really only the roller coaster in the end wasn't quite so thrilling.
 
Loopy

Loopy

Devil hunter in training
Prince Lestat by Anne Rice. I was really excited for it having waited so long for a new Vampire Chronicles book, but this one seems to have lost the charm of the first few books. It was still a good read, just not what I expected.
 
Shadow

Shadow

the horror was for love
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^ Eeeeeeee! :happy:

Reading:
Just finished Blue Morning volume 1 by Shoko Hidaka. Feel all the feels! :'( This series is gonna kill me, I can just feel it. It follows Akihito Kuze, who inherited his father's Viscount-ship as a child, and Tomoyuki Katsuragi, who was appointed Akihito's butler (more like a steward/tutor, really) by the late Viscount. If I say much more I'll ruin it, but...it's so sad.... (It's also straight up shonen-ai/bl/yaoi/whatever you wanna call it, so here be warnings for you. ^^; )

Also just finished Black Butler volume 18 (Yana Toboso) and Devils and Realist volume 2 (Madoka Takadono and Utako Yukihiro). I got them in the mail a couple days apart, but I made a point to read them together for comparison's sake. For D&R, I'm finding the mythology even more interesting; some of the little touches are really nice. William is starting to grow as a character (though he still reminds me of Ciel and Alois's lovechild >_>), though it...kinda ticks me off that even with demons in front of him, showing what they can do, he still doesn't believe in them. Dantalion is quickly becoming my favorite character in the series (now that he's starting to shake off the trying too hard thing) and even Sytry's growing on me, though I keep forgetting he's not a girl. ._. However, I wish the series would take itself a little more seriously. I understand it's only two volumes in, but...no one seems in a particular hurry to get the next king of Hell elected, despite what some of the characters are saying. :/
For BB, I was happy to see the school arc wrapped up (Undertaker! My, how you've changed! :inlove:), though the next arc has a really slow start. I think Toboso's scared of getting into the heavy stuff (demon mythology, stuff about the Reapers, Undertaker's connection to the Phantomhives...who killed Ciel's parents...) because she has the tendency to hint at it and then pull away until it's not mentioned again for several chapters. Now, this could just be a clever way of keeping readers around, but it's also frustrating. XP Because I wanna know! Gah, stress! That said, I find that the arcs (particularly the transitions) flow really well and I find the characters more appealing than the ones in D&R. I just wish Toboso wasn't so hesitant to give a little more insight into her world.

Currently reading Splintered by A. G. Howard. I admit, I bought it for two reasons: the sequel's cover is awesome and the story says it involves Alice in Wonderland. And it does. It does a lot. The story follows Alyssa Gardner, Alice Liddell's great-great-great-granddaughter. Since she was a child, Alyssa's been able to hear plants and bugs and has, to the best of her abilities, hidden this trait from everyone around her. Her mother, however, also has the same ability and hasn't been so lucky. The family seems cursed with insanity and, in an attempt to save her mother, Alyssa (and her friend/crush Jeb) ventures down the rabbit hole to set right her great x3 grandmother's wrongs against Wonderland. This has been a paraphrasing of the cover summary, now onto your regularly scheduled review. So far...I like it. I feel it's really rushed, though. I think it needed about another 100 or so pages before they got to Wonderland (could just be me, though, but I felt it was strange for Alyssa to go from denying everything her mother told her to suddenly believing her in the span of one day). That said, I do like the way Wonderland has been approached--it's not some whimsical place, it's dark and nothing is what it seems. I...do think the love triangle aspect was a little too obvious, though. On one hand, there's Jeb--he's a really nice guy, caring, artistic, brave--and, on the other, there's Morpheus, fulfilling the blue caterpillar's roll--how to describe him...um...Forbidden Game fans! Remember how Julian would get really sweet and seductive, but you always knew he could turn around and...I dunno, set the entire game on fire? Yeah, that's Morpheus. ._. Still, I've already ordered the second book, so I'm definitely thinking the book's going in a good direction. I just think it needs a touch of subtlety.

(...if only I could add all this to my word count. >_>)
 
Innsmouth

Innsmouth

Sleeping DMC Fan
Supporter 2014
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berto

berto

I Saw the Devil
Moderator
Innsmouth said:
oh, there is one?
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A movie just came out in Japan based on the novel. I haven't seen much good out of Japan's mainstream in a long time but I'm willing to give the novel a read since it just came out in theatres.

I don't know much about the plot but I'm going to start reading and see if it's any good.
 
Innsmouth

Innsmouth

Sleeping DMC Fan
Supporter 2014
berto said:
A movie just came out in Japan based on the novel. I haven't seen much good out of Japan's mainstream in a long time but I'm willing to give the novel a read since it just came out in theatres.

I don't know much about the plot but I'm going to start reading and see if it's any good.
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tell how it turned out afterwards :)
 
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