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Oh my god they’re giving the bees caffeine addictions

I think “The flower is a lusty bisexual” might be my favorite sentence ever

It is exactly what it says on the tin. It will sit with me for a long, probably uncomfortable, time. No review

Also I might actually miss the bug man

Please not the bug man

PLEASE NOT THE BUG MAN😭😭

HULLO???

Sea pink😌

*Michael Bluth voice*: “I don’t know what I was expecting.”

So far, I am liking this little novella a lot more than the first one🤪

This is auto returning today and I don’t know what time so we gotta zoom

Oh! I’m crying🫠

…I appear to have been bamboozled

Oh my god, I thought she was dead. I mean, she crossed my mind like twelve pages ago, but it’s kind of hard to betray your whole people when you’re too busy being dead

Apparently the ending I remembered was actually the 55% mark, so now I’m a little behind everything

There is no bittersweet ending to see on the horizon.

Even if what I remember comes to fruition by the last words, there is no positive outcome

Fascinating how I remembered the first page and (maybe) last page(s), but not the whole genocide that takes place in the first third of the book

1) I definitely read this when I was lil but I insisted upon double checking, so here we are. I think I know part of how it ends, so I can’t wait to find out how we get there😌

2) The protagonist is at most twelve years old. Why is there so much responsibility on her shoulders😭 She’s just a baby

Can’t wait to listen to this for the next hour in my car again so I don’t have to be locked out of my place🤪

Ik I have a bad habit of ditching books I get from work, but this might actually hold my attention.

Anyway, shoutout to Edmond Albius for figuring out a method to artificially pollinate vanilla (and with so much success it’s still used today) at the age of TWELVE

Okay no one hate me but this is joining the list of “books I started at work and kept for a month but lost momentum reading” and maybe it’ll come back later but also maybe not

Either I’m stupid or there’s a footnote telling me the subject of the sentence I just read was mentioned in the chapter I just read, followed by a summary of the sentence😅

:(

I’ve noticed that every single man I come across here who is not immediately introduced as a friend of Eros is guaranteed to be an asshole.

Huh.

There is little reason for Medusa to make an appearance in this book, but, somehow, she has. It led me to revisit the source material for this story to confirm. I wish I had not; now the interesting storytelling choices are much more glaring.

I’m an Apollo apologist and an Ares defender.

I am also keeping track of the characters that show up as throwaways for the “meet the myths” quota she seems to have.

I have my complaints, but Eros muttering a very relatable “fuck” made me chuckle.

And poor Ares is out here catching strays😭

I keep finding myself trying to draw a comparison between the writing here and the writing of Til We Have Faces. The issue there is that they are fundamentally centered on different details within the same myth. Psyche and Eros is perhaps more comparable to some of the other modern retellings that have been trending.

“Zeus told me about it.” Girl you were born quite literally seven minutes ago. Zeus didn’t tell you shit.

I’m being very careful not to judge this book based only on the myths the author has chosen as the gods’ origins. She is allowed to pick different myths than my personal favorites.

There is hope.

Even if I must carve it myself out of the stones left unturned.