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Dark and Deepest Red
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bookshelves: diverse, fairytale, fantasy, ya, retelling, from-publisher-author, arc, 3-stars, unpopular-opinion, eh, reviewed, historical, project-pride, lgbt-plus, authors-of-color
Jun 10, 2021
bookshelves: diverse, fairytale, fantasy, ya, retelling, from-publisher-author, arc, 3-stars, unpopular-opinion, eh, reviewed, historical, project-pride, lgbt-plus, authors-of-color
Considering: giving up on historical fiction forever.
There is just something about the way that old-timey-but-actually-it's-new-timey-it's-just-pretend stuff is written that I cannot cope with.
This is only 50% set in forever ago times, but that fifty percent was so snooze worthy that it actually permeated throughout the wonders of modern life.
This was only my second Anna-Marie McLemore, but the other one was so much more magicky and lovely and fun.
This was none of that. But then maybe I'm just cursed to dislike every ARC I receive until I'm blackballed by the publishing industry. (Speaking of...thanks, publisher...also sorry.)
Bottom line: Honestly I don't even know why I 3 starred this!
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pre-review
currently: yawning very hard.
both because i keep forgetting to drink my coffee and because this was kind of a snooze?
review to come / 3ish stars
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currently-reading updates
reading my second anna-marie mclemore book just days after my first. that's pride, baby
also this is an ARC i'm reading a year and a half late.
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reading all books with LGBTQ+ rep for pride this month!
book 1: the gravity of us
book 2: the great american whatever
book 3: wild beauty
book 4: the affair of the mysterious letter
book 5: how we fight for our lives
book 6: blue lily, lily blue
book 7: the times i knew i was gay
book 8: conventionally yours
book 9: the hollow inside
book 10: nimona
book 11: dark and deepest red
There is just something about the way that old-timey-but-actually-it's-new-timey-it's-just-pretend stuff is written that I cannot cope with.
This is only 50% set in forever ago times, but that fifty percent was so snooze worthy that it actually permeated throughout the wonders of modern life.
This was only my second Anna-Marie McLemore, but the other one was so much more magicky and lovely and fun.
This was none of that. But then maybe I'm just cursed to dislike every ARC I receive until I'm blackballed by the publishing industry. (Speaking of...thanks, publisher...also sorry.)
Bottom line: Honestly I don't even know why I 3 starred this!
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pre-review
currently: yawning very hard.
both because i keep forgetting to drink my coffee and because this was kind of a snooze?
review to come / 3ish stars
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currently-reading updates
reading my second anna-marie mclemore book just days after my first. that's pride, baby
also this is an ARC i'm reading a year and a half late.
--------------
reading all books with LGBTQ+ rep for pride this month!
book 1: the gravity of us
book 2: the great american whatever
book 3: wild beauty
book 4: the affair of the mysterious letter
book 5: how we fight for our lives
book 6: blue lily, lily blue
book 7: the times i knew i was gay
book 8: conventionally yours
book 9: the hollow inside
book 10: nimona
book 11: dark and deepest red
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Nahaylem wrote: "Dang."lol
Makes my TBR incrementally more manageable, I guess.
Nahaylem wrote: "Makes my TBR incrementally more manageable, I guess."bright side!
For historical fiction, you should try An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro! The narrator is unreliable and so interesting. The characters are fantastic.
