Violet > Recent Status Updates

Reminder to rate this 2 stars, because when I get to the end I’ll be all sappy. This book is bad. The main plot is, scene for scene, Cinderella. she even has to leave the ball at midnight. Then Benedict has the same thought ab virginity WORD FOR WORD that Simon did in book 1. And then Sophie remembers meeting Penelope in a scene that did not and could not have happened. Also Benedict is a creepy tool

I’m so stressed in three dimensions

Her father was a clergyman, without being neglected or poor, and a very respectable man, though his name was Richard.
Gang do we think Jane Austen is making a Dick joke or is she just politely hilarious

Vis is in Suus and he just went into a tavern where he knew he’d be recognized but the server didn’t say anything, just set down a meal fit for a prince and Vis left the old currency with his father’s face on it 😭😭😭😭 I’m bawling. Also trump put gold lettering on the White House today and Catenan remodeled the palace of Suus

Laughed my butt off about Nathan’s famous hot dog eating contest and then got whiplash because it incited bigotry?!

It goes on and on but I’m enjoying it. It’s like 90% compelling and then 10% this is the dumbest subplot I’ve ever read and idk why it’s included. Maybe it’ll come back to get me

I said I would not keep reading this series, but it’s like Y/N fantasy written for people named Violet. What is a girl supposed to do

I’ll try anything once!

This book is so mortifying

My ebook loans keep expiring I’m in crisis

I forgot how this book got on my tbr, but I’m glad that’s the case because that way I didn’t realize it was a conservative critic until chapter 2. unintentionally expanding our horizons~
Ch 1 compelling portrait of a society that sells the promise of high technology just around the corner, tho I think he ignores the rapid change that’s happened outside the US + Europe. Ch 2 demographic alarmism dumb af

Makes me tear up and breathe weird but in good ways im good guys

Show me a Tom Stoppard play that doesn’t alter reality a little bit and I’ll show you you’re wrong

It’s so perfect… it’s a classic Percy Jackson adventure but updated for the modern era with terms like venmo and himbo… I’m so happy

When I tell you the big dumb idiot grin I have on my face when I read this in public

DNF 25%