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i’m really enjoying the book but i’m starting to feel like it had absolutely no business being 500 pages long

body horror on one page and sapphic love on the next, exactly what I would expect from Johanna van Veen

I love Mona Awad. I love the bunnies

I expected to dislike this, but I did not expect it to be this boring?? i don't remember it being boring

the GASP i just gusped

there's just no way this doesn't turn into one my fav reads of 2026, if not ever. it's so interesting already

idk if this is a complaint exactly but why is Draco already so interested in Hermione 🤨 barely enemies

ok i wasn't gonna read this now because i'm already reading 80 books at the same time, but i can't resist any longer

“The path lassoed a pond with reedy, marshy edges, a pool of water roughly the shape of a horse’s cock.”
huh? 🧐

reading this completely blind. i only saw a post that said the magic system was reminiscent of programming. i said SAY LESS and borrowed it, but that’s all i know 😌

this book took my last marble, i am losing my mind (not complimentary)

these repeated comments about not having a regenerative liver 😭 i’m cackling. as if the liver isn’t the only organ in the human body that actually regenerates

MY CHEST HURTS
MY HEART HURTS
release me from this suffering (complimentary)

The amount of notes I have for this book already is concerning. My review is gonna end up being as long as the book 😔

Barbara Truelove’s brain needs to be studied, idk how she thought of such an insane premise AND executed it this well

Has there ever been an MMC who doesn't have calloused hands?

i feel like i'm missing something 😭 everyone seems to love this book and i feel like nothing is happening. the atmosphere is great, the writing is nice, but that's about it?

the more i process the first book, i kinda love it? i think my interpretation just needed to take shape in my mind. now i have to read book 2 and find out if my theories are correct!!

"Before, I suspected that she was either jealous of me or had a little angsty, confused hetero girl crush on me, or both."

idk if i'm too woke but did you really have to clarify twice that the friend is straight? was that really necessary? and this is coming from a queer character nonetheless?? you could just say "I suspected she was either jealous or had an angsty, confused crush on me, or both." 😒

idk why this is boring me. it's not boring, but it's boring me anyway

ngl, i don’t understand the magic system at all. it’s alchemy which implies metal, but vivimancers don’t use metal…? or? do necromancers use metal? i thought everyone was a necromancer or a vivimancer, but there are pyromancers? paladins? and there’s some relation to the planets, but why or how is a mystery. so many scattered parts with no clear connection. what am i missing??

it's been like a week and i've made 3% progress 😔✊🏻

starting with the audiobook but i always end up swapping to reading if i like the book, and i'm sure i will like this one because it's Barbara Truelove 🙂‍↕️