first impression of my latest book order

[insaneneko]

My first impressions tend to be crap so I usually don't post about books until I've reread them several times, but since sara_tanaquil asked what I'd ordered and I didn't want to just list the books...Please take all comments with a grain of salt. I revise my impressions of books quite a bit. ^^;

Ryuu no fukkatsu, Dr. no Houkou by Kifu Kaname and illustrated

Comments

[madamada_chan]

Ohh... I don't know much of these authors (yet!) but you have a lot of my favorite illustrators ♥

I adooooore Mr. Kayashima ♥ Though I've read the manga, I can't really follow the novels yet because I'm not that fluent. But I fell in love with his story after listening to the drama cd (That's how awesome NojiKen is LOL)

I'm very interested in Hanayaka na Aijou. I'm kind of impressed you stayed with it until the 4th book so I'm really curious now :D

Aaaan Sore wa tsumi na anata no sei sounds so adorable!! If anything, it's illustrated by Natsume Isaku so I think that just levels up the cuteness by 100x!? XD

Thanks for mentioning these!! I am definitely looking forward to your reviews of them someday~

[insaneneko]

I'm a sucker for good art, so I tend to choose the stories that sound good or authors I like that have nice art. ^^;

I need to listen to the CD drama of Mr. Kayashima as well! Arg, too many on my list! The novels are lovely and flesh things out much better, of course. Hopefully you'll be able to read them someday.

The series with Hanayaka na Aijou is very satisfying, if you like romance with some (but not too much) angst. The best thing (besides the sex-loving uke I mentioned before) is that the characters do change during the series.

Sore wa tsumi na anata no sei is pure adorableness. The main character is slightly dorky and not too bright, but so sweet. The novel is quite hefty, too. The book is almost 300 pages.

I probably won't have time to do any in-depth summaries for a while, unfortunately. RL is keeping me busy. :P

[sara_tanaquil]

You spoil me!! Thank you so much. A lot of those sound intriguing.

Do you order almost all novels? I've noticed that you mostly review novels rather than manga (which is great, I get most of my leads on novels from you). I just noticed it because I quite rarely order novels. I have such a novel backlog to begin with (I read sooo slowly, woe, and MUST there be 37 Fujimi novels? Not to mention 22 City of Glass novels, that I haven't even started?), and I guess reading so few to begin with, I don't have established authors/series that I keep buying the latest one of.

Anyway, thank you! I will try to keep up with reviews of my orders as well. I feel deprived of manga conversation lately, for some reason.

[insaneneko]

You're welcome! I tend to buy a lot more novels than manga because I feel like I get more bang for the buck, on average. Plus, it seems the novel authors/series I like publish more often than the manga artists/series I like. I would love to buy more manga, but I've gotten pickier (and have less room) lately so unless someone highly recs it or it really grabs my attention I will hesitate to buy. I summarize novels because hardly any are translated (unlike manga which do tend to get scanlated) and I want to share the stories I like (or hate). I get lazy and don't write about the manga I like (or hate) nearly as much. ^^;

[wednesday_10_00]

Oh dear, this is dangerous because I'm working on putting together an order right now and a lot of these (especially the series) sound like I might want to try them out...my poor wallet. orz

And totally agreed on Nara Chiharu! I got the latest (last?) Negotiator books in my last order, and was really surprised by the illustrations. Man, what happened to her? So sad. :/

[insaneneko]

Hope you like whichever ones you end up getting. It's amazing how much of a money suck it all is. I try not to make too many orders but it's hard not to when someone I really want comes out...And of course you can't just buy one or two or three at a time...

It feels like Nara Chiharu's art has been evolving (devolving) in a way I really dislike for a while now, but lately it's gotten really icky. *sighs* Her art in the last two Negotiator books was almost insultingly simplistic and bleah. (BTW, I'm not sure I liked those Negotiator books. I feel like that storyline, which was really nasty on Mebuki, went on too long...Mebuki turned into even more of a woobie than usual. I'll have to reread to see if I still feel that way, though. I change my mind upon rereading quite often. ^^;)

[wednesday_10_00]

Sadly, I couldn't fit any of them in because the order was so huge already (over 20 books, ouch!). :/ Hopefully next time, because I really want to try them! So many books, so little money...

I actually haven't read the latest Negotiator books, just flipped through the pictures. Partly because I've been too busy reading Fujimi (that is a lot of books to get through!), but partly because they looked sorta angsty and I'm not really looking forward to them. (PS to the publisher: thanks for releasing two books at once, and then putting a spoiler for one of the books on the obi of the other. I really appreciated that one!)

[insaneneko]

It's hard to keep the orders to a reasonable number, isn't it? It's nice having a long to-read list, though.

Re: Negoiator...Angsty is a good word for them. ^^;