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Nikko

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reviewed Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

Nghi Vo: Into the Riverlands (EBook, Tor) 5 stars

Nghi Vo's Hugo and Crawford Award-winning series, The Singing Hills Cycle, continues...

Lambda Award Finalist …

The Singing Hills continue to be harmonious

5 stars

Probably my favorite of the series so far; the central story is compelling and very tight, while also having enough room that everything feels fleshed out even under 100 pages.

Milk Morinaga, Yoshimurakana, Kodama Naoko: Syrup (paperback, 2020, Seven Seas) 3 stars

Anthology may not be the best format for the genre

3 stars

Anthologies can be a great way to tease out a premise or character, but this collection served mostly to highlight how many yuri storylines have the same basic premise(person 1 has a one-sided crush on coworker/classmate/customer) and the fact that many of the stories are under 10 pages doesn't help. Lots of good art and character designs, and a few very effective shorts, but for the most part repetitive.

Saburouta: Citrus (2014) 3 stars

"Aihara Yuzu, a high school girl whose main interests are fashion, friends and having fun, …

nuanced, if troublesome

4 stars

there is a reason this series is considered a classic of the genre...great character designs and art overall, with fairly complicated characters, even if the premise is cringe/problematic to say the least...

yuni: I Love You So Much, I Hate You (2020, Yen Press LLC) 3 stars

Decent story that could have used a few more editing passes

3 stars

Overall a decent story that could have been a good deal stronger with some additional work/editing. The art isn't /great/ but it's effective enough(I'm all for minimalism as a way to emphasize the emotional isolation of the characters, but in places it felt sparse enough to just feel unfinished).

Still, there aren't that many yuri centered around working age folks, much less ones with this age disparity, so it's notable at least in that regard.