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But I step foot in here and I just see all the sides of Jane Cobalt. Bold and soft. Outlandish and unabashed. Feminine and eager.
Beautiful.
It makes me never want to leave.

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But after much consideration, I've learned to love my body. Because it's mine and there is only one of me.

Janie 🫂🥹🫶🏻

Samantha Calloway is always at the scene of the crime! I hate her so much

🙄🙄🙄

the reality show plot is ridiculous! I get that Emmet would prefer to be doing anything else, but if he needs the money so bad, why not put some effort into it? He’s miserable all the time and it’s making me feel miserable 😫 there’s nothing exciting about it!

I forgot how much I love this book!

”Thank you for naming her Jihad." He finally looks at me, smiling. "She's all the colors of bravery.”

😭😭

My people can't exist as they are. We must prove ourselves worthy of a life.

this is heartbreaking 🥲

I WANT TO SCREAM! Why can’t I have a moment of peace? Things keep happening and I’m scared and I don’t want to read anymore 😫😫

“For her, I’m so easily the fool.”

This hurts 😭

I am so NERVOUS 😫😭

freaking out 😭 I fear this will break my heart!

"Chase death, Moonbeam. And I pray your bloodlust brings you the same sense of peace I feel just knowing you exist.”

😭😭😭

"You want to die?" the Chancellor asks, not bothering to mask his shock.
"No," I murmur, picking another curl of filth free. "I'm just so sick of looking at your ugly face that death is starting to sound rather cushy?”

I’d forgotten how much I love her, she’s hilarious

reread time 🙂‍↔️

"Touch her, and I'll kill you."

It’s always a bit jarring to see this type of line in contemporary romance…

"Kiss the sky with me," Connor whispers, a beautiful smile pulling his lips, "and don't ever come down."

I love them 😭

“You and me,” he says and licks his lips. “We fuck like winners.”

🙂‍↔️😮‍💨

It's easier to be born strong than to find a strength that you never thought existed. For that, I believe she has more courage and prowess than I could ever possess.

the lap dance scene lives rent free in my mind

”people thought she was nuts- in a genius I will devour your soul kind of way. I thought she was fucking fascinating”

MY PARENTS

I’M HOME! 🙂‍↔️

And it was good and terrible and wild. Changing and growing and becoming, again and again, as we shucked off our leaves and burrowed our roots and reached for the sky. What a glorious, golden thing to be alive. What a wonderful, awful gift it was to leave things behind.

If I had a nickel for every time I read a book this year where the main character loses her best friend, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s funny that it happened twice.

It hit me then they were all showing up in their own ways. In ways my parents never had. In ways Nova and I had tried to be for each other as much as we could. And for the first time in for-ever, I wondered if this was what family felt like.

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she wasn't just the sun. She was the sunrise. Even though darkness had claimed her for a time, she still rose. Every damn day.

I’m LOVING this book!!!

I will finish this book because I want to know how it ends but I’m not enjoying it 😭

apologies in advance for anyone named Larissa, but I don’t like that the fmc’s name is Larissa 🫣 it just doesn’t sound like a main character name to me 😅

I didn’t love Abby’s last release and I’ve been seeing so many mixed reviews for this book, so expectations aren’t high 🫣