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Frank Churchill has entered the building 😮‍💨

I’m determined to finish this ahead of comic con now that I know VE Schwab is attending

the Mr Elton bomb has dropped 😭

Everything is going to blow up in Emma’s face… I’m scared to read on

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Elton is going to make me cringe so much

Emma’s more meddlesome than I was expecting

Ahab!

Ishmael and Queequeg. Friends or lovers?

I fucking love Ishmael.
I don’t believe a word he says.
But I love him.

I’m so fascinated by the way Melville has written this book. I can’t wrap my head around it.

I know how pretentious I seem reading The Iliad and now this but idc.

Chapter 3 was written in such an interesting way: narrative second perspective turned first perspective. I think it’s the first time I’ve ever read the second perspective. Weird.

I did not see the plot twist coming. But that’s because I haven’t been fully engaged with this book. Maybe I will from now.

I fear this in another story when my favourite character is the devil

The stark difference in quality between this book and all the books written between this and HR is crazy

ERIC IS OLD

That is the dumb ‘tension’ this book. It’s better than Fabian disliking hockey but not good enough to warrant 300 pages of storytelling.

Also, this book has descended into pure smut and I’m just not interested. I don’t get it. In heated rivalry it was emotional and character revealing, but in this book it’s just sex for the sake of it.

Eric and Kyle are cute! But I think I can see where this is going, and I’m already anticipating the badly written tension in 150 pages time.

I might relate to Scott on a spiritual level but Ilya will always be my favourite character.

Ilya to Eric after saving a puck:
“You are a hundred years old. I could hear your bones crack”

Eric and Kyle are cute! But I know where this will go and I’m anticipating that badly written tension I’ll read in 150 pages times.

I might relate to Scott on a spiritual level but Ilya will always be my favourite character.

Ilya to Eric after saving a puck:
“You are a hundred years old. I could hear your bones crack”

The conflict is that Fabian doesn’t like hockey. This is dumb.

They got together and now I’m disinterested lmao. Maybe I just don’t like insta-love. I also don’t get the tensions that’s being built… Fabian doesn’t like that he fights? Is that it? Why?

Its cute.

I’m liking Fabian a lot more than I like Harris. Ryan is alright too I guess.

I just finished reading the Iliad so I need something on the complete opposite of the book spectrum… Tough Guy!

I said I wouldn’t read the entire Game Changer series. I was wrong. I have missed Scott Hunter so I want to read Book 4 where I know he’s a supporting character. Rather than skipping to it as I did with Role Model I figured it’s better to read these next two in release order.

Achilles is built different man. His apathy at killing Hector is monstrous. I can’t believe I’m reading him giving out prizes after all he’s done.

Good news is Diomedes is still alive! He’s the MVP of this war in my heart <3

Guess who’s back. Back again. Achilles’ back. Tell a friend.

He was even more angry than I was expecting. I could feel it in my heart.

Diomedes has slowly become one of my favourite characters. He does the job and doesn’t complain. What a guy.

Achilles has been mad this whole poem over the most ridiculous of things. It’s not even anger, it’s pure rage. I’d hate to be Antilochus and have not deliver the news of Patroclus’ death…

Patroclus just died. I need to take a breath. In his final words he believed in Achilles. This is so tragic.

This is a bit like war and peace where I’m loving the peace/ politics but not enjoying the war. So many people die that I don’t even try to like a character anymore. They will die. It’s like I’m reading jujitsu kaisen again.

Ajax, Phoenix & Odysseus: Please come back to the war! You can have all the gold and riches! You can have seven women!

Achilles: No.

Ajax, Phoenix & Odysseus: 😮

Diomedes is just murdering for the love of the game. I didn’t know him before reading this so I have my theories on his fate…