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Is it just me or is this Bridgerton fan fiction? (not to say that it isn't better than the Bridgerton books, because it is. Read other HR, people.)

Reading to see if I want to teach it. Then realized I will only teach boy books if so. Also wondering what there even is to teach. It's a gruff, testosterone apocalyptic road trip.

I feel like this is parodying ACOTAR and poorly constructed books of its ilk so I'm HERE FOR THAT

Slightly improving.

This woman is insufferable. I don't know if I can do this.

So much thesaurusing, but I'm interested in the plot.

Why do I seem to be one of two people on Goodreads who think this poetry is terrible?

Okay, I really want to be into this but it is DRAGGING. I devoured the other two, and I'm just not getting into this one. Dare I stop?! I don't want to, but...I do. What to do, what to do...

Was really powering through until this point...now I'm really slowing down.

I find it interesting/awesome.that the physical appearance of the Goblin King morphs.

"The sound of music." mmhmm.

Interesting. The goblin king/underground equates to death.

"I do not know what to call him, but I cry out his name." 😍

Can't help thinking there is a Sound of Music influence in addition to Labyrinth. MC is named Maria Elisabeth and goes by Liesl, and her father is Georg.

"[his eyes] were two different colors: one as gray as a winter sky, the other a hazel-green..." BOWIE, BOWIE, BOWIE. 😍

"wine-dark maw": Homerian.

DNF. I can't take any more. "Who could love someone with red feet"? Maybe I could tolerate the writing style, and I was trying to make it at least to page 100, but Evie is just annoying the shit out of me.

Annoyed by the stretched usage of words: granular bitterness of beer, glandular sheen like a lacquer. Come on.

Maybe this is pretentious, but this book reeks of first novel, "look at my metaphors and vocabulary" pretension.

I am LOVING that the MMC looks like Gregory Peck, and that he's confident in multiple instances of calling out sexist / anti-feminist BS.

I am not keen on the quality of writing. It is very "telling" instead of "showing." For example, pg. 55 - "The paramedics were wonderful." - this was followed by a list of what they did. Pg. 79 - "By the time we got to the airport I felt sick with stress." - Better quality writing would describe that feeling rather than say it. I am also not sure about the reveal of the sinister aspect of the marriage immediately.

"Was my happiness so completely tied to him now that I could only feel like myself when he was near?"

Having a hard time with this one. I like it but it's slow for me.

So...erotic fiction shocker on this page! Haha.

I think I have had this exact argument, and fly the same way as Madeline...

Why, yes, Kathryn. Perry White IS a Superman character. Thanks, internet!

"organic blow jobs".
BAHAHAHAHAHA

Starts off on a confusing note. So many people, and an atypical structure.