ominousspectre's reviews
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I skimmed some of the ones I wasn't vibing with so instead of a full ranking, here's the ones I really liked:

The Third Bear
Felt very folktale, even with the

Mord

easter egg.
Finding Sonoria
I love places that don't exist.
Predecessor
This had Poe undertones.
Fixing Hanover
Def my second favorite. The maker meets its made.
Shark God vs Octopus God
Another myth type one. A little goofy at times honestly but I didn't mind.
Three Days in a Border Town
Easily my favorite. A moving city you can only catch in glimpses? You've sold me sir.
Surgeon's Tale
I mostly liked this because it felt like an alternate backstory to Locked Tomb series Jod if he somehow sucked in a different way. 

*dubiously* mind the tags

D: they matched each other's freak

I've been a fan of this illustrator for a while and I'm so glad I finally picked this up. I would've been sooo annoying about this a kid

So I'm on a quest to heal my relationship with straight romance because it used to cause me a horrendous amount of dysphoria, but now I understand I just wanted to be the boy the whole time lol.

This one is cute and gentle. I think the only reason I'm not rating it higher is because the love triangle started to get on my nerves. Every time there's a love triangle I'm like okay why don't you all just kiss about it? Or if I had a crush on a friend and they started dating someone I'd be like oh, good for you! And not be possessive and weird. But maybe I am just built different 

The premise of a darker retelling of Rumpelstiltskin drew me to this book. The first chapter is really well done, and I can tell this author likely excels in his short stories (where he's clearly acclaimed).

After that, I could tell right away this is Dad Book Horror. There was an almost confusing nostalgia reading this as it felt like stealing Stephen King or Dean Koontz off my dad's shelf at a Way Too Young Age™. However, I'm an adult now.

The way women are talked about? Breasting Boobily.

People of color? Not great! Indigenous people specifically? Now we're bordering on HP Lovecraft levels of 'primitives worshipping an evil old god'.

All THAT aside (if you can possibly do so for a moment), the story is incredibly meandering? Building tension doesn't mean spending an entire chapter regaling us with the mc's children's lives. You can build tension in a way that's purposeful. The scares are good, I'll give him that, but come on now. This was published in 2012.

these were my fave books as a kid and since I wasn't raised religious, all of those themes went lalalala right over my head so!!

I have a lot of nostalgia about this book

RIP to people on my community timeline seeing me update old books I read with reviews consecutively lol sowwy everyone

basically? this book is almost 4 stars but the filmmaker is so gotdam selfish that it sets it back a bit