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ugh i am revelling in this lost art of true enemies to lovers, it’s so goddamn lovely and also i am not reading any new releases, if it wasn’t written before 2020 it will be hard to convince me to try.

new releases have genuinely completely lost the art of character development and interaction

this is my third time reading these books and EVERY TIME it’s better omygod

i’ve been reading a lot of interesting beautiful books lately, but i just started “the women” by kristin hannah and oh my she writes in such a way that makes me never ever want to stop reading, she’s so GOOD

you know how some books are a little fun but mostly very bad? this book is very fun and only a little bad

its flaws are inherent to the genre, but the atmosphere is so compelling and i’m so invested in the story!

he just criticised her so accurately and negatively and it’s genuinely a relief to read about a character that is allowed to be flawed without being fully dismissed for it in this genre!

oh i just realiszd i have reached the limit of amount of friends you can have on goodreads….. i think maybe it’s still possible to follow? but otherwise, i cannot do anything about it, sorry my loves 💗

i also want an amaris omg

I’m not sure how niche this overlap is hahah, but Alchemised reminds me so much of a darker adult Shatter Me? Something about reading Alchemised feels so familiar to how Aaron and Juliette felt when I was young.

incredible book, heartbreaking and so so so full of emotion and depth!

just started part 2 and i miss kaaaaaineeeeee

it’s inarguably good, but a bit difficult to get into? my mom says later on i will find beauty in how slowly and unknowingly this is unfolding, but for now, i simply feel my attention slipping away very easily…?

my mom is reading this book as well, and without her clarifications of terms i would be SO lost right now? is that not bothersome to others without anyone to ask for definitions?

i’m not sure why i expected this book to be bad hahah, i was so prepared to be disappointed (for no real reason) but it’s lovely so far!

(that is to say, it’s not life changing, or has not swept me of my feet the way some stories have, but it’s a dreamy fairytale i’m glad to get lost in)

this book has soooo many fun elements, but they are all so randomly and briefly mentioned, and it’s all so fast, that a lot of it falls flat…

but fun!