Steff Fox > Recent Status Updates

“You want a revolution, but you don’t want to pay the cost. You don’t want to sacrifice.”

I’m so bored.

Vale and I both stood to inherit legacies we were ashamed of, consoling ourselves that we would be different.

He dreamed—in an unspoiled, hopeful kind of way that could be born only in the Lower City.

“Matius, son of Matius, of everything you could want in this city, I am the very worst thing.”

She turned and my hand instinctively lifted to reach for her. But my fingers only encircled air, narrowly missing the edge of her palls. And I was instantly relieved that they did. Because if I had been able to touch her, I wasn’t sure what it would have done to me.

“There is no one with more blood on their hands, Luca. Because everything we make, everything we study, will be used in the quest for power.”

…but the only person I’d give my life for was across the river.

It was easy to have faith when you wanted for nothing.

I don’t think I’ve ever laughed this much at a book. There are TEARS leaking from my eyes—my sides HURT. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Magnolias. Ahahahahahahahahahaha. 🤭😂

On Valentine’s Day we sat in separate rooms and tagged each other in gushing Facebook posts. We don’t need to say sweet words in person because we know what Real Love is.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Legit, this character is hilarious and I am dying.

I’m sorry. Cal Hockley? From Titanic? A misunderstood hero? The lunatic who abused Rose and shot at her when he didn’t get his way? You have got to be kidding me. She had me with this weird villain love right up until this moment. Jfc.

It’s sexist to assume I wouldn’t know how to fix leaky hoses and sanding belts and whatever else makes a car go vroom. He should assume that all of my lies are true.

Bbbbfffftttttt. Ahahahahahahahaha!

I feel like I’m being exposited at through poorly written character dialogue.

Romeo, oh Romeo, why didn’t you count to ten first?

LOLOLOLOLOL

Well, apparently I need to read The Raven King.

Finally.

I swear, if you included Gale and not Peeta…what the actual fuck.

Ew. Why is Gale Hawthorn in here?

“The cheek!”

Oh. My. Word. 🫣🫣🫣

Kill me. Not another poorly inserted flashback scene.

Say it with me: real people do not act, think, or speak like this. Real people are not this clairvoyant about their friends’ thoughts. Real people with intelligence also aren’t this dumb. Classic author knows things and has a goal, so she puts far too much of that into the characters, thus resulting in there being no chance I’d believe any of this.

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Literally none of these characters feel realistic.

“But be careful. You don’t want to become a favorite of the gods.”

“I thought it was an honor to be chosen by the gods,” I said.

She glanced back up at the tapestry, to the gap-crowned doves that arced across the scene. I’m not sure the doves would agree.”

“Time is an arbitrary concept.”

Very apropos, isn’t it. 🤣

Ugggghhhh. I feel so cheated. This was advertised as enemies to lovers lost in the jungle and they were barely lost in the jungle. Legit lasted for no time at all.

I almost feel like the tone is implying a much darker story than it so far appears to be…

Second ebb and flow book for me, I guess. I keep coming in and out of it.

I’m so torn so far; there are a lot of really promising moments in this that I find quite intriguing…but then I just don’t quite feel like I care about these characters yet. And for an Alexandra Bracken novel, that is so irritating to me.