Ellie
Eng Ver.
It's been almost twelve years since this short story was published, and I thought: “I think it's time. I think now I can handle it”. Turns out this was me through every paragraph. I don't hate it, ok? It's fine, it's good even. But I'm petty. I always think that if I ever get a partner and I die, the other person should enter a monastery, take a vow of silence and never leave. And I know, realistically, that it's not possible. But you know where it is? ✨Fiction✨Now, this is a me feeling, but I always have this feeling that Will came second to Tessa, despite being told over and over that she loves them equally, me being me and me preferring Will, this story hurt. I always knew that was gonna be the case, but I really, really thought that in all this twelve years I have finally grown as a person, no more pettiness. Boy, was I wrong.Jokes aside, it was a nice story, yeah. Not a necesary read, but if you, like me, are trying to complete all the series that started long ago, this is a fast read.
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Son casi doce años desde que esta historia fue publicada y pensé: “Creo que llegó el momento. Creo que ahora ya lo podré soportar”. Imagen referencial de mí leyendo: No lo odié, ok? Está bien, hasta puedo decir que es una buena historia. Pero soy rencorosa. Siempre he pensado que si alguna consigo pareja y me muero, la otra persona debería entrar a un monasteria, tomar voto de silencio y quedarse ahí para siempre. Siendo realista, sé que no es posible. Pero sabes donde sí lo es? ✨En la Ficcion✨Sé que esto es cosa mía, pero siempre sentí que Will fue la segunda opción de Tessa, a pesar de que en la trilogía recalca una y otra vez que no es así y que ella los ama por igual, yo siendo yo y yo prefieriendo a Will, está historia dolió. No fue sorpresa, pero de verdad, de verdaaaad creí que luego de doce año habría madura, no más celos. Eh, me equivoqué.Fuera de broma, fue una buena historia. No es una lectura necesaria, pero si como yo estás tratando de completar todas las series que empezar hace mucho, es una lectura rápida.
To me, it was so hard to finish this book. It does have an interesting premise, but I could not find myself interested in anything that was happening, one of my biggest problems was that I hadn't realised that Risuko was a tween, I don't know if I missed that information at the beginning or it was never mentioned, but I was pretty sure the characters were in their mid-teens at least, but when was mention more than once about how the three main girls haven't started their period yet, it just kind of clicked.
And that's my other issue with this book, it's about a very young japanese girl on her road to becoming a kind of samurai and she's around a bunch of other women whose periods are mentioned more than once in the book, and all of this is written by a White Male Author. I'm old enough to voice when something doesn't sit completely well with me, I have no doubt the author did all his research, but it still gave off a feeling that wouldn't leave me.
Funny tho, this is the only book I've read this year, 2024, where periods are mentioned, so it goes to my special list of books, the other one on it also written by a male author. WTH.
Overall, it's an interesting concept, sadly it didn't spark a huge interest in me. Some parts of the story felt overdramatic, maybe because I had no connection with the story, I couldn't understand where all these feelings Risuko was feeling were coming from.
I received an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review
The title misled me a little; I thought it was going to be narrated through a list or maybe with tips as titles. I was completely sure this book was going to be at its core, a comedy. Although it has its moments and it's not a book that takes itself 100% seriously, it's a little denser than what I assumed it would be. And that's completely my fault. I think that as an alien myself, ‘Life Hacks for a Little Alien' is for an alien from another planet—a planet more human than mine.
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I love L.J. She books, but this was so... Generic. I normally like dual povs, because there's angst, I live for that. But they both lack charm, I wanted to slap maddie, and chase was on and on and on and on with the same thing.
There are some authors that I microdose myself so I can read them for a long time, this was a disappointment.
