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i'm sorry. i cannot

it is NOT the author's fault that i read "Thyamine" as "thylacine" and imagine this mindless maidservant to be a tiger-striped dog-type creature, rip my beloved thylacine

"beg pardon but could you find me a book with some sex in it? absolutely filled with on-page boning. straight up porn without plot."

my goodreads friends are going off with the compelling reviews again, i see

oh Mylanta

"uwu i need to earn his trust" meanwhile youre doing nothing but antagonizing him and reminding him that you hate him and think he's a stupid bully good lord theyre both insufferable

this is so poorly written i really cant tell if these issues are plot holes or the protagonist (author?) being dumb

so it's ACOTAR fanfic crossed with Uprooted fanfic with Hades/Persephone thrown in, except Hades is ... wind?

lol WHUT

this is Not Good, BUT it's so bad that i'm feeling compelled

cinnamon roll sister too good for this world, too pure

ooh, another girl going hunting with bow and arrow in the creepy magic woods to bring back food to her starving family!!
good heavens

eating while reading is one of life's great pleasures -- King has other ideas of what these pleasures are -- and the NICEST thing is to have a good meal while the characters are in privation. i had an entire pizza while reading The Terror and it was the best pizza of my life (meanwhile they all died of scurvy).

anyway this is VERY TYPICAL King so if you hate this, he is just not for you.

i hate walking so this is good in a "wow, could never be me" sort of way

this all sounds very boring for the walkers. blah blah try not to get shot blah blah try not to collapse

anyway i love Stephen King and i love camping and i am never, never going to hike the AT.

that is THOUSANDS OF MILES of hiking up mountains (and down mountains again) with all your stuff and camping at night.
if you think that's easy, you havent done it.

one of my brother's friends walked the appalachian trail when he was a young adult & he did it pretty fast, like eight or ten miles a day, for 3500 miles, carrying supplies and tent and food the whole way. and our father -- who had a banner week if he walked a single mile altogether, with no packload -- our father said "well that isnt very fast"

really enjoy this and cannot get into it. what the fuck :(

usually i hate little wink-wink-nudge-nudge references to other books / media / pop culture, but Levine acts like the reader is in on the joke -- and it works WITHOUT knowing the reference, so