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the_rckTail of the Moon 1 - The library has more of this series, but I don't know if I'll pursue it. I cringed a bit at parts of it. We have a clumsy, not very strong, not very skilled, not very bright but very eager, well-meaning and likable girl who has to prove that she can be a proper ninja in order to marry and help her clan. Or something like that. There's the required distant, handsome hero with a complicated past. ::sighs:: Not really my thing.
Telepathic Wanderers 1-4 - I hated the ending. I'd seen if coming since early in v.3, but I'd hoped that I was wrong. I liked the first two volumes as they explored the challenges of having psychic powers in a world that doesn't believe in such things and of having those powers be both a useful tool for trying to survive and an added danger. I was a little (more than a little, actually) iffy about the black telekinetic who (if I understood what was going on correctly) needed someone to tell him when and how to use his power. A deeper exploration of that in a longer series could have been interesting, but I didn't really understand what was going on there. Don't read this series if you don't care for tragedies.
Tenshi Ja Nai 1-6 - More manga cross dressing. This time, the boy's doing it for economic reasons. His father is in a coma, and the boy can only pay the bills by doing modeling/acting work and could only get that work by pretending to be a girl. The female main character is the boy's roommate. She just wants to get along and not be noticed and hates the idea of rooming with a star. The two main characters don't want to like each other, adding her discovery that he's a guy makes things worse before the situation improves.
Tramps Like Us 1-4 - I'm enjoying this series, but I'm also afraid of going on with it. I tend to take a couple of weeks to work through each volume because I can only read a page or three at a time. My story kinks show strongly in the fact that I wish that the female lead could keep both of the men in her life and have all three of them be happy. It would be easier if I disliked her boyfriend, but I don't. I do, however, really, really like Momo.
Trinity Blood 1-3 - I read these. I liked each enough to read the next one. Beyond that... More vampires. Why are they so popular?
Tsubasa 13 - I read it. I still like the series. I need either to stop reading spoilers or to wait to read more volumes of the series until it's done (or discontinued if CLAMP never finishes it). I keep losing track of what I've read and what's going on with the characters, their back stories and so on.
Ullman, Barb Bentler. The Fairies of Nutfolk Wood - I think this one's aimed at relatively early elementary school readers, good readers but young ones. There wasn't a great deal of depth to any of it. The main character is a young girl who's moved, with her mother, to get away from some family troubles. It follows them figuring out how to pull their lives together and doesn't add any extra angst or complications. The girl finds hints of fairies in the woods near their trailer and eventually (no surprise) finds the fairies themselves.
Ursu, Anne. The Shadow Thieves - I'm not really sure that I should count this because I read the first third and the last third and kind of poked around the middle looking for info dumps to explain whatever plot elements I wasn't certain I understood. I found the style engaging, so I'm not sure why I couldn't read the middle. Maybe it's that I hit a prolonged flashback section that seemed unnecessary to me and that I had the impression would be one bad thing happening after another. I found the use of Greek mythology interesting, and I'm curious about the direction of the rest of the series (and hoping that something happens to make the afterlife less miserable for mortals), but I'm not sure I'm up to reading these books. Some times, I can read things like this, and some times, I can't.
Utopia's Avenger 1-2 - In spite of a high level of violence and gore (this isn't as bad as, say, Arm of Kannon, but I'm a little surprised that it's in my library's YA section), I really like the art here. I had to laugh at what the female characters were(n't) wearing. There's at least one panel that I rather wish I had the facilities to scan so that other people could boggle, too. So far as I can tell, this is a straight up fighting series, a quest for revenge involving people with impressive martial arts magic and maybe some world saving (I'm guessing on that last, but it wouldn't surprise me).
Again, it's been months since I read some of these. My current book logging covers now back to last July.
Telepathic Wanderers 1-4 - I hated the ending. I'd seen if coming since early in v.3, but I'd hoped that I was wrong. I liked the first two volumes as they explored the challenges of having psychic powers in a world that doesn't believe in such things and of having those powers be both a useful tool for trying to survive and an added danger. I was a little (more than a little, actually) iffy about the black telekinetic who (if I understood what was going on correctly) needed someone to tell him when and how to use his power. A deeper exploration of that in a longer series could have been interesting, but I didn't really understand what was going on there. Don't read this series if you don't care for tragedies.
Tenshi Ja Nai 1-6 - More manga cross dressing. This time, the boy's doing it for economic reasons. His father is in a coma, and the boy can only pay the bills by doing modeling/acting work and could only get that work by pretending to be a girl. The female main character is the boy's roommate. She just wants to get along and not be noticed and hates the idea of rooming with a star. The two main characters don't want to like each other, adding her discovery that he's a guy makes things worse before the situation improves.
Tramps Like Us 1-4 - I'm enjoying this series, but I'm also afraid of going on with it. I tend to take a couple of weeks to work through each volume because I can only read a page or three at a time. My story kinks show strongly in the fact that I wish that the female lead could keep both of the men in her life and have all three of them be happy. It would be easier if I disliked her boyfriend, but I don't. I do, however, really, really like Momo.
Trinity Blood 1-3 - I read these. I liked each enough to read the next one. Beyond that... More vampires. Why are they so popular?
Tsubasa 13 - I read it. I still like the series. I need either to stop reading spoilers or to wait to read more volumes of the series until it's done (or discontinued if CLAMP never finishes it). I keep losing track of what I've read and what's going on with the characters, their back stories and so on.
Ullman, Barb Bentler. The Fairies of Nutfolk Wood - I think this one's aimed at relatively early elementary school readers, good readers but young ones. There wasn't a great deal of depth to any of it. The main character is a young girl who's moved, with her mother, to get away from some family troubles. It follows them figuring out how to pull their lives together and doesn't add any extra angst or complications. The girl finds hints of fairies in the woods near their trailer and eventually (no surprise) finds the fairies themselves.
Ursu, Anne. The Shadow Thieves - I'm not really sure that I should count this because I read the first third and the last third and kind of poked around the middle looking for info dumps to explain whatever plot elements I wasn't certain I understood. I found the style engaging, so I'm not sure why I couldn't read the middle. Maybe it's that I hit a prolonged flashback section that seemed unnecessary to me and that I had the impression would be one bad thing happening after another. I found the use of Greek mythology interesting, and I'm curious about the direction of the rest of the series (and hoping that something happens to make the afterlife less miserable for mortals), but I'm not sure I'm up to reading these books. Some times, I can read things like this, and some times, I can't.
Utopia's Avenger 1-2 - In spite of a high level of violence and gore (this isn't as bad as, say, Arm of Kannon, but I'm a little surprised that it's in my library's YA section), I really like the art here. I had to laugh at what the female characters were(n't) wearing. There's at least one panel that I rather wish I had the facilities to scan so that other people could boggle, too. So far as I can tell, this is a straight up fighting series, a quest for revenge involving people with impressive martial arts magic and maybe some world saving (I'm guessing on that last, but it wouldn't surprise me).
Again, it's been months since I read some of these. My current book logging covers now back to last July.
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