The Host Ch11: Dehydrated

Last time, Melanie II didn't want to head toward the next landmark until they went all the way to the previous one, not being clear on how humans use landmark navigation.

The Host Ch10: Turned

Last time, the host's overwriting of the brainslug is successful!

Sunday Carapaces, Part 52 (7 reviews, 3 stories)

May 13-14

AOOOOOOO Replies, Part 6

December 2011! Nearly done with that year.

Misao

Misao is the first game by the same person who did Mad Father. The graphics are a lot cruder but otherwise I found it enjoyable, if hard to take quite seriously. Also, the backstory reveal involves unnecessarily nasty abuse, down to including rape, so avoid if you're bothered by that.

It opens with a nine minute cutscene, but unlike Mad Father, the rest of the game has very little of this.

The Host Ch9: Discovered

Last time on the Host, a depiction of a relationship that isn't horrible and rapey. Are we sure this is YA?

The Host Ch8: Loved

Last time on Brainslugs and the Hosts Who Hate Them, Melanie II has decided to seek the advice of the healer, because all evidence points to her needing to switch hosts as soon as possible, but on the other frond, the seeker told her that and she'd rather die than admit the seeker's right about anything.

The Host Ch7: Confronted

Last time, some comforter babble and the host getting stronger.

The Host Ch6: Followed

This chapter just continues talking with the comforter.

The Host Ch5: Uncomforted

So, last time she had a memory and freaked out because her host talked to her and messed with her mind, so now she's visiting a comforter.

Carapace Reviews Part 51 (5 reviews, 7 stories)

Fun fact: started off today on page 612. It feels like so long ago I was amazed we'd reached 612 fanfics total.

May 7-13

AOOOOOOO Replies, Part 5

November 2011.

Zoombinis: Mountain Rescue - Guest review

I was so excited to try this game out, to see more of what the surely-lovely Zoombinis franchise had to put out after the first game.

I was very disappointed. Mountain Rescue feels like a cheap knock-off version of the original game with everything that made it fun and engaging stripped out.

The Host Ch4: Dreamed

Memory time again.

The Host Ch3: Resisted

Last chapter, she woke up and we ended with the seeker saying her new name.

The Host Ch2: Overheard

Last time on The Host, brainslug girl relived human girl's memories and also human girl talks to her slightly, which is apparently super weird.

The Host Ch1: Remembered

Time for our main character! Let's see how long it takes for her to run into another female to chat with and get some Bechdel passing.

The Host, Prologue: Insertion

The Host! This is by the Twilight author. I was not expecting much from this book, but when I checked out the opening I was first surprised to discover I could actually read it, followed by being surprised what I was reading wasn't awful.

It's apparently about what happens after an Invasion of the Body-snatchers affair where the aliens have won, which is also way more original than I would've thought - although thinking about it, Twilight actually does a lot of twists on the supernatural, it's just awful about them. So maybe she got all the unreadable boring out of her system with that one. (Plus, they're brain aliens, so there almost certainly won't be any disturbing race issues to stumble into.)

AOOOOOOO Replies, Part 4

Finishing up Oct 2011 and beginning our sharp downward turn.

Seeds of Wither (Rose short story)

"The Seeds of Wither" is yet another 1.5 moneygrab of an ebook, and it's perhaps the most shameless one yet. It makes up for it by being more horrible than Wither itself.