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📘 "The Gods Lie" by Kaori Ozaki

From a manga high to a manga low... This title has so many enthusiastic reviews, I kind of expected a good tear-jerker. What I got instead is a sad story about a severely neglected girl, through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy who isn't mature enough to deal with it, which gives an awkward story that I disliked a lot. There's an extra (strange) twist thrown in for shock value, which felt like misery for misery's sake. What also didn't help is that the boy likes to fondle his mothers' breasts for comfort (yeah, no comment).

I really wanted better for the girl, but instead she's stuck playing house with this random boy, while it's portrayed as if he's saving her. Her only dream is becoming a good bride. In the end she has an inspirational dream. About herself, her future? No, about him succeeding in his goals.

Reading this made me feel icky. A big 'no, thanks.'

Book cover of 'the gods lie'. It's an illustration of a boy and girl, holding hands, standing behind some pink flowers, in front of a train passing by on a bridge. They're both looking off into the distance, above the viewer. The boy is in a soccer shirt, the girl is in a yukata with a flower in her hair. The sky is blue with some purple clouds. The title is at the top of the cover.
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#TopTenTuesday | 22nd April 2025: Books with Single Word Titles #Top10Tuesday #bookblogger #bookish #amreading #TTT #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles

Hello and a very warm welcome to damppebbles. It's Tuesday which means it's time for this week's Top Ten Tuesday post. I've decided to take part in That Artsy Reader Girl's Top Ten Tuesday meme to mix things up a little here at damppebbles. Add a little bit of variety to our bookish weeks. The meme was…

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damppebbles.com · #TopTenTuesday | 22nd April 2025: Books with Single Word Titles #Top10Tuesday #bookblogger #bookish #amreading #TTT #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebblesHello and a very warm welcome to damppebbles. It’s Tuesday which means it’s time for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday post. I’ve decided to take part in That Artsy Reader Girl&#8…
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📘 "The Promised Neverland" (vol 1-20) written by Kaiu Shirai and illustrated by Posuka Demizu

I've been chipping away at this all throughout April. It has been a long while since I've gotten so engrossed in a long manga series. At 20 volumes, with 181 chapters, this small team has created over 4000 pages in less than 7 years. Amazing for such good quality.

I really can't say much about this series without spoiling anything. The story starts off in an orphanage, where a few dozen kids are being raised for adoption by a single person called Mom. Every child gets adopted between the ages of 6 and 12, never to be seen or heard from again. Very suspicious...

What makes reading this so fun is the extremely high pace, the cliffhangers at the end of every chapter, the plot twists that also have their own plot twists -it's hard to stop reading when it's bedtime.

Although there are many characters, they are introduced in a way that you'll know everyone pretty well eventually. I'm a softie for the trope of the person who always has hope for people to work together in a hopeless world full of bad actors. I always root for them! I just want them to succeed and prove me wrong!

I thought the ending was very fitting. Overall chef's kiss: reading this was a great, fun, absorbing experience. But just as a heads up: despite its cute cover and young protagonists, this is categorized as horror, so don't go around giving this to actual 6- to 12-year-olds, haha.

Book cover of the first volume of 'the promised neverland'. It's an illustration. A spiral staircase, in a warped, impossible perspective, is coming from down out of a building that looks like a library, and going upwards into the sky outside, with a grass field and a large building next to a forest. On the stairs children are climbing upwards. There is a focus on the three children that are closest to the viewer. A boy with white hair, a girl with red hair stretching her hand out the viewer as if to invite them, and a boy with black hair holding a book. All children seem to have a number printed on their necks.
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Ellen's Very Southern Voice

I spent my Easter afternoon transcribing my penciled notes from Elizabeth Jemison's, "Christian Citizens : Reading the Bible in Black and White in Postemancipation South." The book makes clear the through line from Reconstruction's white Southern Christianity choosing violent racism over equality to today's type of white Christian who's again choosing violent racism, which is incredibly helpful to know.

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Jaedia ⚔️ Hannah

Finished Oathbringer (Stormlight #3) yesterday. I am *exhausted*. Gods there was SO MUCH going on in that book I needed to rest afterwards lol. Loved it to pieces, next up? I'm still listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl, started a book about trees, and something a lil softer on the fiction methinks. Will see! Kaos is making me want to go find a fun translation of The Odyssey though.

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