Cinderella is Dead: A Review

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

My Rating: 5 stars!

Cover Rating: 10/10

Publisher: Bloomsbury YA

Publish Date: July 7th, 2020

Number of Pages: 400

Received: Netgalley provided an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

Purchase: Amazon

Synopsis:

Girls team up to overthrow the kingdom in this unique and powerful retelling of Cinderella from a stunning new voice that’s perfect for fans of Dhonielle Clayton and Melissa Albert.

It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl’s display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again.

Sixteen-year-old Sophia would much rather marry Erin, her childhood best friend, than parade in front of suitors. At the ball, Sophia makes the desperate decision to flee, and finds herself hiding in Cinderella’s mausoleum. There, she meets Constance, the last known descendant of Cinderella and her step sisters. Together they vow to bring down the king once and for all–and in the process, they learn that there’s more to Cinderella’s story than they ever knew . . .

This fresh take on a classic story will make readers question the tales they’ve been told, and root for girls to break down the constructs of the world around them.

Opening Sentence: Cinderella has been dead for two hundred years.

Musings:

I remember when this book was first released and everyone was talking about it. Cinderella is dead was highly recommended all over the blogging space and I managed to keep myself out of spoilers all the way till this day. So when I finally decided to start reading it, it completely blew me away with how the original Cinderella story was completely flipped on its head and turned into the way a whole society functioned.

Cinderella instead of being the story of one girls life becoming a princess, becomes a almost religious imprint of how every woman should behave and strive to have. This archaic society uses her story as a way to oppress women and keep them subservient to men. At first, it made me feel uncomfortable as I have always loved the Cinderella story and I never saw Cinderella as choosing to be subservient, but doing what she could to survive. However, when I realized it was a false version of the Cinderella story being used to manipulate the people, I became fascinated.

I loved following Sophia and I loved how loving another woman empowered her to dream big enough to take the grueling steps she takes to make a change in her world. She suffers much and so do her friends and family, but her love and differences make her realize that she had every right to dream for more.

I also love that her first love doesn’t work out. That it shows the kind of person in Erin who does what a majority of people do in life to keep things the same, simply want to survive and change nothing. That as much an Sophia wants to save her and offered her chances to fight for their love and freedom Erin doesn’t take it. She’s even incredibly upset at the suggestion. A lot of people in this life are that way. They don’t see another way and don’t believe that it can change and it’s sad, but everyone must be able to make their own choices. Erin clearly makes her choice and Sophia chooses the opposite.

I highly recommend this twisted Cinderella story about choosing yourself and those you love and fighting against great odds to make the changes you want to see in the world. It’s a beautiful and inspiring story.

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I see Your Face Turned Away 1: A Review

I See Your Face Turned Away by Rumi Ichinohe

My Rating: 3/5 stars

Cover Rating: 9/10 The cover is really beautiful and it captures the soft sadness on her face. It feels very melancholy.

Publisher: Kodansha

Publish Date: May 7th, 2024

Number of Pages: 198

Received: Netgalley provided an e-arc in exchange for an honest review

Purchase: Kodansha

Synopsis:

From the creator of My Sweet Girl comes a new manga about four teenagers and their four stories of unrequited love. When you don’t want to lose a friendship but long for something more, the only thing you can do is gaze at your beloved’s face, turned away…

A bitter and sweet tale perfect for fans of A Sign of Affection and In the Clear Moonlit Dusk.

One might call Hikari extraordinarily ordinary. One day, she takes up a new hobby–imagining what a romance would be like between her pretty friend Mari and the cute guy in their class, Ohtani. It’s all in harmless fun, until the roles start to get tangled in Hikari’s mind. Does she really have to be just the best friend in this love story? And just who is on Ohtani’s mind when his eyes drift away…?

Opening Page:

Musings:

Wanting what you can’t have is hard. I hope that in the future of this series that each person learns to see more then just that one person they like that doesn’t like them back. I read this because it is something I experienced in middle school and high school and I feel like at that age we can’t help ourselves. We fall in love with the idea of love and don’t realize that the person that doesn’t feel the same way as you do about them, is never going to be that right person for you.

The tone throughout this entire story is that hopeful sadness. It felt like reading the parts of high school you wish to forget. The cliques and the jealousy and wanting to fit in more than you stand out. I wish that it’s something that didn’t continue on and we started to celebrate individual talents more than fostering jealousy between students. Also, making student ability more then just about being the best at one thing or another, but encouraging each individuals growth.

Reading this I realized I don’t really miss high school at all. As much as I loved to learn, the emotions and the social rules and hierarchy’s that form were a source of frustration for me. It’s something that I hope everyone matures out of.

The story itself is a very realistic story of what high school is like. The way it made me vividly relive my own high school experience shows that the author very much remembers her high school experience. It’s not the fondest of memories.

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The Perks Of Being An S-Class Heroine: Volume 1: A Review

The Perks of Being an S-class heroine by Grrr and Irinbi

My Rating: 5 stars!

Cover Rating: 10/10 the cover is absolutely gorgeous. The dress is beautiful, the pose is so fun, her expression is “how the hell did I get myself into this mess”, it has so many details, and so much personality. I love this cover!

Publisher: Yen Press

Publish Date: May 21st, 2024

Number of Pages: 304

Received: Netgalley provided an e-arc in exchange for an honest review

Purchase: Crunchyroll Store

Synopsis: From cooking to alchemy to even brewing tea, Ailette Rodeline is a certifiable child prodigy—but she’s got a secret weapon on her side: she’s a transmigrator! Having purchased an insurance package at the moment of her untimely death, Ailette has the perks of a top-tier support system and item shop to fall back on…and she’s going to need all the help she can get! Will Ailette be able to survive in the world of a notoriously brutal time-loop novel or will she rise to the challenge and prove herself to be an S-class heroine?

Opening Page:

Musings:

I absolutely adore this Manhwa! This is beautifully colored and the art is stunning from beginning to end. It has such a fun and interesting premise and it really takes it and runs with that idea. It’s over the top, funny, and incredibly entertaining. I feel like I could live inside of this world for ages.

Ailette is dead, but she gets a second chance to live her life as a character in a webtoon comic. She gets to level up and obtain abilities to help her survive the events of the story and make it her own. As she has been tested as an S-class heroine, she obtains some insanely OP abilities and even creates a whole religion by herself.

The story is wild in the best way and it made me smile at all the ridiculousness of it. It has all the mixings of a great webtoon. It makes you feel you are truly living in this alternate reality with a heroine who truly has special abilities beyond all others.

I had a blast with this one! I cannot wait for more. I will definitely keep an eye out for the sequel and beyond when those eventually release. I highly recommend this!

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The Dangerous Ones: A Review

The Dangerous Ones by Lauren Blackwood

My Rating: 4 stars

Cover Rating: 8/10 this is a great cover. It has Jerusalem’s spear and I really like the composition around it and all the flower petals.

Publisher: Wednesday Books

Publish Date: May 14th, 2024

Number of Pages: 368

Received: Netgalley provided an e-arc in exchange for an honest review

Purchase: Amazon

Synopsis:

One vampire to kill. Another to love.

War doesn’t scare Jerusalem. She’s a Saint. Thanks to powerful demigod-style reflexes, endurance, and strength, she’s fearless. And she has one goal – revenge.

But she never expects to team up with the handsome, arrogant Alexei to accomplish it. He’s one of those Ancient Vampires. And ever since her family was enslaved and murdered by one, Jerusalem hates vampires. 

But in the year they’ve been fighting alongside one another against the Confederate Army and the vampires who benefitted off slavery, Alexei’s never done anything but prove he’s on the Union’s side and hers. She may know the enemy better, hate the enemy more than anyone in her battalion, but so does he. And she’ll use that to her advantage. Because if she can get her revenge by helping Black people gain freedom and equality without having to steal it for themselves like she had to, then all the better.

Together, she and Alexei set out to change the course of the war, risking their hearts and themselves as they attempt to take down the vampire who destroyed everyone Jerusalem held dear. But for Jerusalem, it’s about more than love and justice.

It’s about killing a god.

Opening Sentence: “The sky was pitch, and my tears blinding, so outrunning them hounds was tricky.”

Musings:

This was a novel that was a lot about trauma, healing, and learning to not let pain take you away from feeling love. Both Alexi and Jerusalem were gravely traumatized by the actions of a vampire in the past. While, they both experience the trauma differently, a big part of the understanding between them comes from the shared experience of trauma.

Alexi greatly admires Jerusalem’s strength. She escapes slavery and fights as a saint to enact justice upon those who have treated her and her people unjustly. Even though Alexi is a Vampire, his vampirism was forced upon him and he does not hold loyalty to Vampires just because he is one. He too wishes to fight against them and make right the wrongs that have been committed against him and Jerusalem.

Jerusalem does not trust Alexi at first and Alexi understands why. He doesn’t get upset with her for the way she treats him because he knows she doesn’t know any better and she’s acting out of rightful fear and distrust. He continues to be there for her and he shows her he wants to protect her and fight alongside her and support her strength. He trains her in how to use her spear and understands why she uses it against him at times. It’s a long battle to break down her walls and get her to see him as not a threat to her.

As someone who has experienced trauma, it is lovely to read a love story where the partner is willing to accept the others pain and not get angry at them for it. Trauma is a years long process to heal from, and even Alexi hadn’t healed from what occurred to him hundreds of years ago. He’s willing to take his time with her and even provokes her in a teasing way until she accepts his friendship and then his love. It’s really beautiful.

I recommend this vampiric revenge story and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did!

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Manga Classics Frankenstein: A Review

Manga Classics Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; M. Chandler; Linus Liu

My Rating: 5 stars

Cover Rating: 10/10 the cover is both frightening and beautiful and of course very recognizable. It fits the classic Frankenstein story well.

Publisher: Udon Entertainment

Publish Date: November 10th, 2020

Number of Pages: 324

Received: Netgalley provided an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

Purchase: Amazon

Synopsis:

Obsessed with natural philosophy, the young Victor Frankenstein succeeds in creating life from its basic elements – and abandons the newborn monstrosity in terror when he cannot bear to look at it. The rejected creature vanishes, and Victor attempts to forget what he has done… But the monster survives. It learns. Deprived of everything, fated to forever be alone, it has nothing left but revenge.

Manga Classics® presents a frightening new manga adaptation of Mary Shelley’s famous tale of creation and destruction! Available in Hardcover, Softcover, and Digital Formats.

Opening Page:

Musings:

This is my introduction to the Frankenstein story. I have never read the book and I am only vaguely familiar with the story in the way that everyone knows of it and the part that a monster was created by scientist Frankenstein. It was cool to finally get myself a taste of what the true original story is kind of like. I don’t imagine this is a 1 to 1 recreation, but the language is in an older style and I feel that the essence of what I imagine the original to read like is kept.

I love the idea of making the classics more approachable to teens and adults alike by turning them into manga. A lot of the classics are intimidating and I feel like the shorter versions with beautiful artwork are a great way to introduce these stories and help with visual comprehension.

I had learned a long time ago that Frankenstein was the Scientist and not the creature that was created, but I didn’t realize how much depth the story actually had. That the monster himself had so much internal questioning and that he’d begged for his master to create a new monster for him as a companion and the scientist destroyed that creation. It’s one of those situations where everyone is in the wrong. Tragedy ultimately was of the scientists own creation and he is as much a monster as his creation becomes.

As a person who loves horror this story is a quintessential example of what good horror looks like. It’s the horrors that man creates on his own that are the most terrifying. I recommend this version of Frankenstein if you enjoy classic literature or horror movies and books.

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Tied To You: Volume 1: A Review

Tied To You: Volume 1 by WHAT and Chelliace

My Rating: 4 stars!

Cover Rating: 9/10 it’s super beautiful and it fits the manga perfectly. It’s very romantic.

Publisher: Ize Press

Publish Date: May 21st, 2024

Number of Pages: 336

Received: Netgalley provided an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

Purchase: Yen Press

Synopsis: Wooseo Shin was never one to believe in fate…until a ring of red thread appears around his finger, that is! This ring marks a person’s meeting of their soulmate, and with it, neither can fall asleep if the other is absent. This development is not a welcome one for Wooseo, who decides to keep it from his close friend and crush Jiseok Kang at all costs. Because as fate would have it, the person with Wooseo’s matching set is Jigeon Kang—Jiseok’s older brother! When Jigeon proposes that they start sharing a bed, if only to combat their joint insomnia, Wooseo reluctantly accepts…but as the two spend more and more time together, feelings start to get messy. Will Wooseo be able to survive his new life tangled up in between these two brothers?!

Opening Page:

Musings:

This fantasy romance manga was cute, but also sad at times. What if the person you were destined to be with was in love with your own brother? Yet, since you have always known them you have wanted that person. Later discovering that they are the other end to your red string of fate and they also know that too, but still they pine for your brother who only sees them as a best friend. The quiet love and pining was aching to read about.

After reading, it also gave a lot to thinks about. What would it be like if we all knew from the moment we were 18 who our red string of fate soulmate was? Would life be easier? Would it become more complicated? How would it feel to know that your destined person was in love with someone else?

The idea should be so sweet, but in this manga it becomes something bitter at times. Sometimes it becomes dark even. There was a short mention of people killing their partners after being rejected by them due the red string of fate. One you know who your partner is if you sleep without them your nights are restless and sleepless. It sounds as much of a burden as it could be potentially something amazingly beautiful.

I definitely recommend this manga and I look forward to seeing what comes in the future of this story.

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The Backwards Hand: A Review

The Backwards Hand by Matt Lee

My Rating: 5 stars!

Cover Rating: 10/10 I think this is the perfect cover for this book. It’s the grotesque hands in that old feeling monster flick way. It matches this book well.

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Publish Date: May 15th, 2024

Number of Pages: 272

Received: Netgalley provided an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

Purchase: Northwestern University Press

Synopsis:

Fear. Disgust. Pity. The cripple evokes our basest human emotions—as does the monster.

Told in lyric fragments, The Backwards Hand traces Matt Lee’s experience living in the United States for more than thirty years with a rare congenital defect. Weaving in historical research and pop culture references, Lee dissects how the disabled body has been conflated with impurity, worthlessness, and evil. His voice swirls amid those of artists, criminals, activists, and philosophers. With a particular focus on horror films, Lee juxtaposes portrayals of fictitious monsters with the real-life atrocities of the Nazi regime and the American eugenics movement. Through examining his struggles with physical and mental health, Lee confronts his own beliefs about monstrosity and searches for atonement as he awaits the birth of his son.

The Backwards Hand interrogates what it means to be a cripple in a predominantly ableist society, deconstructing how perceptions of disability are—and are not—reflected in art and media.

Opening Sentence: The year is 1990.

Musings:

This was one of the most eye-opening books I have read in a long time. Every time I took some extra time to sit down and read a little more of it it revealed to me something I didn’t know or hadn’t thought about. I was aware of the more heinous history of Nazi Germany’s eugenics. I was not aware of Frida Kahlo being disabled or the passage in the Bible that discussed anyone who is disabled not being able to take communion. Leviticus 21: 16-23. It’s something that brought great discussion and disbelief between me and my mom and my sister. They didn’t believe it was real until I pulled out the Bible that’s been sitting on our shelves reading the passage and watching the pure look of shock and denial cross both their face. The hilarity that ensued at the end of it at the mention of crushed testicles. My sister asking, “What are they going to do? Pull down your pants check if your testicles are crushed or not?” It was a very enlightening and funny moment for all of us.

Just that one piece of information had me thinking about how it mentions any broken bone or any affliction where your vision isn’t perfect and you can’t take communion. While modern Christianity doesn’t take that verse to heart it is very telling of why a lot of people who actually read the Bible and take every word as law can become horrible people.

Another big theme in this memoir is what truly makes a monster? As well as the connection to monstrosities being disfigured often in film to portray someone as evil. Even tiptoeing into the idea that maybe the treatment of those who are disfigured causes the trauma that makes them want to hurt others. Ultimately though, the message is that it is our actions that make monsters of us. Not the afflictions for our bodies.

I was truly fascinated to learn more about the history of disability and the stories of people making their choices in their lives to become monsters or not. The ideas of eugenics and the true horror that those who are able bodied can decide to rob the disabled from their lives just because they think that the disabled are a waste of space and resources. How even some who have been disabled share in the idea like Hellen Keller advocating for babies born with disabilities to be euthanized.

Sometimes reality is truly more monstrous than fiction.

I highly recommend “The Backwards Hand” it’s truly enlightening and a fascinating read.

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The Beast Player 1: A Review

The Beast Player 1 by Nahoko Uehashi & Itoe Takemoto (artist)

My Rating: 5 stars!

Cover Rating: 8/10 The cover is really pretty and the coloring is so soft and it feels like a painting.

Publisher: Kodansha Comics

Publish Date: May 14th, 2024

Number of Pages: 190

Received: Netgalley provided an e-arc in exchange for an honest review

Purchase: Kodansha

Synopsis: Ten-year-old Elin loves her brave and beautiful mother, a gifted beast doctor charged with the care of the Toda—the fearsome giant serpents that the kingdom’s warriors ride into battle. Their modest but happy life together is shattered when a mysterious illness fells the entire stable of the prized serpents overnight, and Elin’s mother is saddled with the blame. Before she knows it, Elin finds herself cast out from all she has ever known, alone in a faraway land, with only her mother’s words and the kindness of strangers to guide her. A sumptuous manga adaptation of the hit fantasy novel series, The Beast Player, by Nahoko Uehashi.

Opening Page:

Musings:

I love the unique world to be found in this manga. It has its own unique peoples and ways and it feels like your scratching the surface of something so much larger and you’ll only ever get to explore that smaller part of it.

Of course a huge part of what I love about this manga is the artwork. I find the pieces that have watercolor to be stunning. It really fits this world with dangerous yet useful creatures that make up a central part in the ways of the world in this story.

There is a prophecy of calamity relating to our little heroine Elin and a feeling that her innocence won’t remain to be as it is as she gets older due to what happens in the beginning of this manga. This is a story I wish that I was able to read so many more volumes of because I know there’s so much potential for depth. I feel that the story may become darker as it goes, but it also could potentially show that fate may not be totally as set in stone as it seems to be.

I really enjoyed this read and I look forward to so much more!

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The Poisons We Drink: A Review

The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste

My Rating: 5 stars

Cover Rating: 10/10 this is such a powerful cover. It fits the strength that Venus has as the love Witcher. It’s stunning.

Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire

Publish Date: April 30th, 2024

Number of Pages: 480

Received: NetGalley provided an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

Purchase: Barnes & Noble

Synopsis:

In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family.

Love potions is a dangerous business. Brewing has painful, debilitating side effects, and getting caught means death or a prison sentence. But what Venus is most afraid of is the dark, sentient magic within her.

Then an enemy’s iron bullet kills her mother, Venus’s life implodes. Keeping her reckless little sister Janus safe is now her responsibility. When the powerful Grand Witcher, the ruthless head of her coven, offers Venus the chance to punish her mother’s killer, she has to pay a steep price for revenge. The cost? Brew poisonous potions to enslave D.C.’s most influential politicians.

As Venus crawls deeper into the corrupt underbelly of her city, the line between magic and power blurs, and it’s hard to tell who to trust…Herself included.

Opening Sentence: “An internal gift exists within all breathing things to recognize where one stands in the food chain.”

Musings:

The Poisons We Drink is an intense novel where pain is one with magic. Magic itself takes on many different paths, but as a Witcher you are only sworn to one of those paths and if you should break it there are physically painful consequences.

Reading this book it brought me to think about the idea of what it takes to make a change in the world. While the events and actions Venus takes may at times feel extreme, the history of protests, and the actions people take to make real change in their communities is a painful and extreme endeavor. Often times people are not noticed when being passive and in this novel Venus and her loved ones go to drastic measures to ensure the safety and future of their community.

Sometimes, in order to create the change you wish to see in the world you must become a monster in someone else’s eyes. Sometimes doing the right thing isn’t easy and sometimes it isn’t nice, but some things do just need to be done. In a better world things would just be right, but in this world and in the world of this novel immoral acts must be done to fight for the rights people deserve.

As the love Witcher when Venus brews love potions it is an act that causes her great physical pain everytime she performs one especially depending on how powerful that potion needs to be. It causes her broken bones, the loss of teeth, internal bleeding, and more. She then has to take a healing potion and feel the pain of being remade and she does this everytime she brews love potions. Majority of the time none of her love potions are for romantic reasons. Their for a love of an idea, familial love, repairing a friendship, or to love something else more to give up an addiction. The breath of what can be done under just her wheelhouse is incredible. The details of the different paths witchers can take fascinated me.

A huge amount of sacrifice for the sake of something greater is a huge theme of this book and I find it beautiful. Venus actively pushes people away because she knows she makes some of the most difficult decisions in life and she hurts the people she loves taking those actions. Yet those who truly love and understand her stick around. I especially loved the friends to lovers situationship she gets with Presley. They’re a non-binary cutie who also makes some hard choices themselves.

There lives so much depth in this novel. The magic systems and the political system is so well thought out. It’s an incredible read. I 100% recommend this book!

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Sketchy 01: A Review

Sketchy 01 by Makihirochi

My Rating: 4 stars

Cover Rating: 7/10 it’s a really nice cover and it has a softness to it that I really like. I wish it was a bit more related to the manga itself, but it’s still pretty.

Publisher: Kodansha

Publish Date: April 9th, 2024

Number of Pages: 210

Received: Netgalley provided an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

Purchase: Barnes & Noble

Synopsis:

As her twenties slip by, Ako feels like she’s falling behind. But a group of skateboarding girls will bring a newfound passion into her life in this reflective, relatable josei manga from the creator of Is Kichijoji the Only Place to Live?

Ako finds herself coasting along, watching her twenties pass her by. Work at the video rental store, see her boyfriend, repeat… Her days are becoming an indistinguishable, listless blur. Until she encounters a skateboarder practicing a trick–and she’s a girl! For some reason, Ako feels a pull toward the sport. Slowly, all the dreams and ambitions she gave up on and the futures she imagined for herself come flooding back, and Ako resolves to change herself now, before it’s too late. But is it ever really too late to discover something new?

From the creator of the digital fan favorite Is Kichijoji the Only Place to Live? comes a portrait of young adulthood that will attract fans of Inio Asano, Akiko Higashimura, and Taiyo Matsumoto.

Opening Page:

Musings:

This story is a love letter to women in skateboarding. It talks about many different women in different stages in their lives getting introduced to these amazing skateboarding women who inspire them to try and learn a new skill. I love that the women in this book are all adults. Often times new hobbies are shown as only being able to be tried out by children or teens, but here this is about adults with jobs, boyfriends, and regular adult struggles finding something that can be a fun new outlet for them.

One of my favorite parts of this manga is the showcase of real life women who skateboard:

It’s really beautifully done and while I personally am not someone that feels comfortable skateboarding I hope that anyone reading this who is interested does try out the sport for themselves. To me anyone at any point in their lives should be able to go for what they are inspired to do in whatever way they are inspired to do it. I loved that this manga showcased women with different styles some who skateboard in flowing skirts and others in just a t-shirt and jeans. It’s really awesome that it showcases so much variety of different women sharing a passion for the same sport.

I recommend this sporty inspiring manga and I hope that everyone knows in their hearts they can go for whatever they dream of.

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