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I was worried I'd find this confusing since I didn't do a book 1 reread. and like, yeah, I did a bit. but it's also so easy to slip back into the groove of this bomb af world and these fun characters. you can't go wrong with "soft butch lesbian legolas"

this book just used the phrase "put on her game face." her 1879 game face. in 1879. yeah idk if we're gonna make it through this one besties

I know flowery, deeply historically inaccurate names are part and parcel of the historical romance genre, but as a name nerd I can't help cringing hard at the idea of an 1870s English aristocracy sibset named Marigold, Freya, Angelica, and...Dani. Even if they were historically accurate, they're all over the place!! where's the COHESION

ily but Hayley sis these tenses are a hotttt mess

this book is the most gorgeous physical object I've held in a hot minute. the foil the endpapers the typeset. awoogah

not me getting 70 pages into this book and recalling it's by an Indian author/originally published in India and realizing that "[Mad] Magali" rhymes with PAGALI. because she's Mad!! get it??

worried my review will oversell exactly how skin-crawlingly disturbing this book is because sure I'm writhing wretchedly but I can't tell how much of that is Craft/the story vs how much is coming from my own personal hangups. like I once passed out in my GP's waiting room after thinking too hard about what a vaccine is, I am not to be trusted here

issuing a formal apology to caitling starling because unfortunately if your horror novel includes a scene where a character follows a sinister "pattern of dark stains" on a hospital floor I WILL immediately think of the Children's Hospital tumblr post and burst out laughing. take me to jail I've ruined the vibes

if I had any sense of self-preservation I'd DNF this for my own mental health. but unfortunately I'm me, so

determined to make it through this one but I can already tell it's gonna be a really tough read for me, a deeply squeamish person easily squicked by medical stuff including my OWN shitty chronic illnesses. but hey I got through The Death of Jane Lawrence so. we stay silly

oh ok so this guy is definitely the Beast in human form huh. got it

why do all these convents and monasteries have random implements of torture lying around

if you drink every time ms radcliffe uses the word "gloom" you will die harder than signora bianchi

uhhhh so is this gonna be "piranesi but with Whale" or

that last act. hoooooooooly shit

FUCK QUAN CH ALL MY HOMIES HATE QUAN CH

AND LOOTED THE CORPSE??? this book really is That Girl. most chekhov's guns per capita since the locked tomb

YEAHHH LET'S GOOO! talking Fancy Feast DOWN!! Love the way this book understands that Carl is not a special unique rebellious Main Character in a world of sheeple, but actually just the latest link in a long chain of resistance and regular people who worked toward a better future. sotr wishes

not MOUNTAIN DEW

ellena: if sister olivia doesn't look at me I will throw up and then burn this whole building down. I am very heterosexual

ok yeah wow I can absolutely see how this is setting itself up to clown on The Monk

ok yeah my patience with this series is officially running out

oh my goddddd CHRIS

tbh making the characters do #ads while literally fighting for their lives is exactly what this series was missing up until now. like yeah they WOULD

imma be real with you chiefs I do NOT see what everyone seems to see in this series. like it's... fine. Nothing special. Unedited and full of anachronisms, but trying its best to be charming. I guess if I squint it's like if you took all the zest/verve/je ne sais quoi out of Emily Wilde. Has the rest of the audience only read milquetoast Amish romance up until now or something? Did Papà forbid mirrors? I don't get it

"I was so scared I wouldn't get kissed until it was in a script" oh yeah classic dilemma. I may or may not have kissed a guy behind some dumpsters because I'd already been cast in Love's Labour's Lost and knew I would have to do a bunch of stage kissing that summer

thank you faye for defending commedia from the haters

hmmm noah fence to pantalone but if I was gonna murder people in a commedia mask I'd definitely go for a zanni. for maximum irony

wearing a colored shirt to callbacks??? is it crack that you smoke. do you smoke crack

the unfortunate realism of "our director's been murdered" being ranked about equal with "but what about the cast list"