she engineered the whole thing??? the PSYCHIATRIST literally stood behind one-way glass and picked celeste because she ~wanted~ her?? this isnt even dubcon it's just straight up sexual assault. a portrait of a child abuse survivor who lacks all context for healthy relations being groomed and deluded into yet another abusive relationship. can you imagine a story where a male protagonist did this to a female protagonist and it was sold as a romance. actually yes i can imagine it it would be the movie Passengers with jennifer lawrence and chris pratt. that's a bad movie.
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satanicguava reviewed Alone by E. J. Noyes
Half a million dollars will be Celeste Thorne’s reward for spending four years of her …
bamboozling
1 star
Content warning I'm about to literally spoil the whole book
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Alone by E. J. Noyes
Half a million dollars will be Celeste Thorne’s reward for spending four years of her life in total isolation. No …
satanicguava wants to read The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the …
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@hexarchate guess i need to read this lol
satanicguava reviewed The One That Comes Before by Livia Llewellyn
gross gory lovely and very esoteric
3 stars
3.5/5 stars because the prose was lovely and poetic but i didnt have a single idea what was going on the whole time, like factually plot-wise.
i kept wondering if i missed something and this was a sequel to another work or set in a pre-existing universe. MC was kind of hard to understand. but i LOVED the world, grimdark urban fantasy where a cabal of thamaturges seeks to use the city to bring an ancient dark god back to life. urban fantasy is usually so spunky, this was a nice change.
satanicguava reviewed The silent companions by Laura Purcell
When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's …
it's alright
3 stars
atmospherically very good. well written, wonderful prose. logically not very sound. also, i think that in horror the use of an inherently evil child is just like. kind of tacky and cheap.
satanicguava rated Don't Pay Bad for Bad & Other Stories: 5 stars
Don't Pay Bad for Bad & Other Stories by Amos Tutuola
Don't Pay Bad for Bad includes selected out-of-print, rare, and never-before-published fiction by the iconic Nigerian author Amos Tutuola.
satanicguava finished reading Don't Pay Bad for Bad & Other Stories by Amos Tutuola
Don't Pay Bad for Bad & Other Stories by Amos Tutuola
Don't Pay Bad for Bad includes selected out-of-print, rare, and never-before-published fiction by the iconic Nigerian author Amos Tutuola.
satanicguava wants to read The origins of totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
The origins of totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was Hannah Arendt's first major work, wherein she describes and analyzes Nazism and …
satanicguava wants to read Light in Gaza by Jehad Abusalim
Light in Gaza by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, Mike Merryman-Lotze
Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a powerful contribution to …
satanicguava wants to read The Book of Disappearance by Sinan Antoon
The Book of Disappearance by Sinan Antoon, Ibtisam Azem
What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These …
satanicguava reviewed Sing Your Sadness Deep by Laura Mauro
decent
3 stars
a pretty nice collection of short stories. i have no criticisms, but none of them really grabbed me. they were nice, sweet and often sad, but none of them felt thorny or complicated- which i tend to like. still, i enjoyed them, even if i won't seek out more.
satanicguava started reading Red Sister by Mark Lawrence (Book of the Ancestor, #1)
Red Sister by Mark Lawrence, Mark Lawrence (Book of the Ancestor, #1)
"The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen's War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series …
satanicguava finished reading Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck
Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck
An award-winning debut story collection by Karin Tidbeck, author of Amatka and heir to Borges, Le Guin, and Lovecraft.
A …