Reviews and Comments

I don't have a ton of thoughts about this book other than it being pretty good. The "metamagic" concept was really clever, honestly much more inspired than anything happening in the works being parodied here. The spicy parts were very hot. There were fewer of them than I was expecting, but definitely the right amount. It's a fairly personal story with relatively small stakes, more in line with the average romance than the average fantasy. That probably makes sense for book 1 of a series though. It does a great job establishing the world's rules, which are pretty intriguing. I'd love to read a followup with a grander, more far-reaching plot.

This is so neat, except you probably ought to have read at least some of the various source materials, and I haven't lol.

I'm only marking down this one comic, but actually I read the entire chronology of Miles Morales' Spiderman across all his appearances in the Marvel Ultimate universe. I'll read all his appearances in the prime Marvel universe too at some point.

Paulo Freire: You must meet people where they're at. Education isn't a one-way transfer, but a dialogue. You must always pair the abstract with the concrete, they are meaningless without each other.

Also Paulo Freire: Proceeds to spend an entire chapter using the most abstract language I've ever heard outside a phenomenology textbook

Despite being set in an alternate history, this book really felt like an extremely realistic depiction of everything going on with the left these days. It's pretty brutal and sad, honestly. I really wanted it to end on some utopian note, but it ends in an extremely probable way instead. Maybe that's more important.

I love this series, or at least the first 5 books I've read so far. Somehow it never takes itself too seriously, while simultaneously also being pretty heartwarming and dramatic at the same time. The premise plays out exactly as amusingly as you might imagine.