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Finished reading: Heaven Official’s Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 8
Aa-aa-aa-and done!
So I like Hualian better than the main pairings in SVSSS or MDZS (no shade on either, mostly just a personal preference thing), but the story itself I think suffered from being unfocused in places and with, honestly, a pretty disappointing villain reveal.
Still a fun read, and with some parts that will live rent free with me forever.
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER The blockbuster danmei/Boys' Love novels from China that inspired the animated series
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The second volume of the official Final Fantasy XIV lore books, written and compiled by the Final Fantasy XIV development …
The first volume of the official Final Fantasy XIV lore books, written and compiled by the Final Fantasy XIV development …
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Currently reading: Encyclopaedia Eorzea ~The World of Final Fantasy XIV~ Volume I
My actual physical TBR shelf is one of those floating IKEA LACK shelves and it, uh. Wobbled in the drywall when I tried to stack the two encyclopedias on it. So. Better read them I guess.
Just through the “history recap” section (covering “prehistory” to just before Stormblood) and, okay. That did clear up a lot of the timeline stuff in game I’d been confused about (the Allagans, the War of the Magi, etc.).
Still only like a quarter of the way through the book, though, and there are like . . . three? Four? Volumes of this thing! I guess no-one ever accused FFXIV of not being a lore-heavy world . . .
The first volume of the official Final Fantasy XIV lore books, written and compiled by the Final Fantasy XIV development …
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER The blockbuster danmei/Boys' Love novels from China that inspired the animated series
In this final …
Rogues, thieves, pirates and ne'er-do-wells abound in speculative fiction. Sometimes heroic, sometimes villainous, often somewhere in between, rogues are as …
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Finished reading: The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 2
First half a little slow (not to mention took me a little while to remember who everyone was and what was going on), but devoured the last third in a few hours when the mystery plot picked back up again.
The longer Mo Ran spends in his life reborn, the less he understands the man he once was, to say …
The second book of the Eisner Award-winning horror series from writer JEFF LEMIRE (Sweet Tooth, Black Hammer) and artist ANDREA …
