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I always forget this author takes ages to get to the point when any dialog is happening. 😮‍💨

Father Carrass and the demon trying to ragebait each other during their first meeting was great.

So far this seems like a really sad family drama by an author that loooooves the word "cunt"?

okay why is legit nothing happening in this book lol

I still don't understand a fucking thing. There's a place with a billion swords? There's a war we vaguely know the macro details off but we have a bunch of out of context quotes to read. Idk what a fire weaver is or does. Save me.

I said fuck it and decided to try this, just to see what all the fuss was about and oh my god. The names? I don't know who anyone is and I'm four chapters in. Nothing about the plot makes any sense. The MC is the most tedious, irriating man alive. I am baffled.

Everyone who recced this as hot owes me $70. This is ACOTAR but as greek gods. Hades has growled four times already. This is DRY as hell if you know what I mean.

I'm listening to the audiobook and oh my god, it's so sinister. You ever have a teacher you were SURE hated you? Be thankful it wasn't this guy.

This is very interesting so far, and I'm wholly invested. The only issue so far is the Arthurian system of magic so far is complicated and I'm not sure I understand it after two listens 😅

This feels like a gay remake of Tangled at times but the MC is so painfully gullible, it's a irritating. I don't think it's a good sign when the love interest is infinitely more exciting than the main character.

screeeeeching, Gavin is already perfect

parts of this series are so bleak and brutal, oof like you can't stop but also you kind of wish you could

I was so nervous about starting this book because I've seen some of the trigger warnings about it but I'm genuinely hooked. Anyone selling it as YA though is doing the book a disservice because it's very much just plain adult. It gets DARK in here.

The low-key memes are SENDING ME and also Yads, my sweet baby.

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY ENEMIES GOSH

Okay so the found family trope is winning me over but also I'd like to fight Joe.

Um, I was not prepared for this age gap?

Uhhh if that's the main twist of this book......really?

Martina calling her mom "mommy" as a 17-18 year old is creepy.

Oooh, I love when a book has a cast and goes all in.

All these books start to blur together when the premise is basically "The Breakfast Club but with murder" but the stupidity of everyone locked in the hotel room is staggering. They're in a hotel, light a small fire and get the fire department there. They have the tools to contain it. Whip the bomb out the open window. You don't have to play this game?

I live books with a mystery to solve but I always end up suspicious of literally everyone.

Okay everything actually seems to make sense now and I'm howling at the PoV changes in the final quarter of this book.

NONE HOUSES WITH LEFT GRIEF

THE SOUP

Harrow is Going Through It. And also DOES SHE NOT KNOOOOOOOW????

OH MY GOD

The slow burning creep of something being just off is so delightful. I'm suspicious of everyone and everything.