Joshua Davidson

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I don’t lightly toss out five star reviews. I’m a writer, author, and story developing fiend. When everyone shills about how amazing a movie is, I normally hate it. I hated Frozen, refused to watch the second. I say this, to build an understanding that I’m not easily impressed, and a handful of cute songs or a cute critter is not going to sell me on an awful story. That said, this movie definitely has both those elements; a cute critter that sings cute songs. Fortunately, there is real story here that goes well beyond just being cute. It shows far more believable characters, with a past and something to heal from. It shows an interracial couple, without coming off as “woke” or “preachy”. Each character has their own struggles; they have wants, and they have their fears that they need to overcome. This movie blew away my expectations of what I expect to find in movies these days and while there are very few movies I actually want to see, this one was a good one.

I really wanted to like this book. The locality, and culture is so diverse from western civilization it was refreshing at first. The nicest thing I can say about it, is the sin eating concept was fascinating. The book falls apart though as it wanders through the main characters point of view. What’s the book about? After reading 70 pages, I couldn’t tell you what the plot is, other than Aki are barely compensated for slaying sin creatures and then devouring them. The characters are weak, I couldn’t tell you what the main character is like, let alone the others. The story rambles on and on and I have no idea what the conflict in the story is even about. I really wanted to like this book, but it’s putting me to sleep, there is just no sense of what’s going in the story other than watching a guy wander around an old city with a lot of slums.