Shoot Juliet Down – Manga Volume 1 Review
Apart from the awful and cliche Akatsuki character, I want to see more of this boldness.
Apart from the awful and cliche Akatsuki character, I want to see more of this boldness.
Happy Lunar New Year for asian folks, and everyone else who celebrates! In the chinese zodiac, 2026 is the year of the fire horse, so …:
I like how each object had its own story to tell – for example, a dining table told me how it loves Saturday because of many visitors.
This House Will Feed is a superb gothic novel and a damning record of the Irish Potato Famine, told through the eyes of Maggie O’Shaughnessy. Using the medium of Irish folklore, an intriguing supernatural yarn is spun; peppered with the chilling realities of genocide. The book starts with a long trigger warning and I advise…
Publish date: 27th January 2026. A Spell for Drowning follows Kensa Rowe, a child haunted by her father’s hanging and considered a pariah in the Cornish fishing village Portscatho. To find her place, she becomes the village ‘wise woman’ and learns to heal, as well as the ‘Old Ways’ (aka magic). I was pleasantly surprised…
However, this chapter doesn’t delve much into ADHD and could ‘just’ be a restless/hyperactive child, nervous about its first day of school.
The blurb promised a little too much. But the illustrations and art style are really wonderful, drawn with love.
Wonderfully sweet illustrations. I also like the “fascinating facts” list at the end of the book. Didn’t know that stingrays have something in common with bees!
It started off real good. A bit cliché but the art is wonderful enough, as well as the magic system and of course the opening with: “The Words”.
“What’s the point?”
Started very unexpected, but delivered the melancholy I hoped for well.