Reviews and Comments

Most stories have some kind of gruesome supernatural component, I really enjoyed that. One I thought started out looking pretty ableist but then it took a turn that I also thought was cool but probably didn't really make up for the "blindness as a metaphor" thing.

Uhm this is pretty cool so far but I'm not sure if I'm in the mood for it

Uuuhm. I enjoyed it, and for a "men doing things while talking in a complicated way" fantasy story this is very very good. Still... I asked myself why a few times.

I suspect this might be my least favourite Lauren James book so far. But it's too early to tell.

I didn't like this one as much. I found it hard to follow the plot and I disliked how a lot of characters were .. characterised. I also suspect that a lot of references went right over my head, since I haven't really read any Shakespeare, and I've ignored all summaries of Shakespeare that ever showed up in my life.

I'm reading this in German and neither the translation nor the audiobook narration are terrible – that's already a great start! Also the story already made me laugh out loud once. (It was the bit about which gifts a witch could give a child.)

It is a story where bad things happen to the queers, but it's not a tragic story. Things go on, people can leave, and find each other again.

I'm often easily bored by historical fiction (idk why!) but this worked very well for me.

Ich mag ganz vieles an den Geschichten.

Ok it's been some time now since I finished this. Uhm.... I thought the beginning was pretty slow, then halfway through it got scary in a way that I liked, and then later... it was just the characters getting hurt more and more and I disengaged emotionally.

Ok, so far it's both annoying and really scary.

It took me a while to start to appreciate it, but now I'm at half and things are starting to move. Uh, more than before.

I noticed so many Harry Potter parallels that i started to doubt my perception, because the world and setup of this book is quite different and everything. But I mostly thought they were fine because they are so messy that they seem a bit satirical.

Sadly there were a few things that really didn't sound convincing to me, from minor logistical details to big character motivations.

Also, why does the Greenwild do nation states?

But it's sweet, I like the world and the atmosphere.

Jetzt hab ich es also endlich fertig gelesen. Was ich mag ist wie detailreich die technischen und bürokratischen Zusammenhänge geschildert werden, meistens ohne fad zu werden. Besonders den Cybre-Kram fand ich sehr anschaulich. Und dass es manchmal fast ein bisschen lehrbuchhaft und "natüürlich passiert jetzt das auch noch" wirkt hat mich auch gar nicht gestört, das macht es noch ein bisschen spaßiger für mich. Es gibt viele Sachen die ich nicht dran mag, nicht zuletzt auch wie das Hörbuch gelesen wird mit diesen unnötigen Akzenten. Herausheben weil ich nur eins: Die Bösen sind ein Bündnis aus Anarchist_innen und Faschos 🙃

Read it again :) there was again more terrible stuff than I remembered, but also more sweet stuff. I think I can just read it again and again.

I like this one :) a story about a bunch of girls negotiating being kids vs teenagers and I really like how it turns out to be a fluid thing that's more fun when the stereotypes get dropped. And the definition of "bisexual" does not limit itself to the gender binary, so extra points.