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The fact that the back rooms of the bar & the fucking underground cages aren't being explained but I get jokes about dry humping really does sum up the essence of this book.

I know, I know we're probably gonna get a Lance romance book next all about his underground cage trauma, but this book could have been SO interesting if it was 3rd person omniscient and it was about the damn cages.

Roman being surprised when a lawyer who openly works for two opposing sides has been orchestrating their downfall for his own personal gain ike (っ º 0 º ς) ?!

Friar Lawrence, this is your legacy. How are you feeling about that.

FOR A HANDFUL OF DAYS?!?!?!?!?!?@?@?@?@?@?@?@?!?!?!?!?@ I KNEW THIS WAS R&J BUT I TRULY THOUGHT WE WERE BEING LIBERAL WITH TIME PASSAGE, THESE ARE GROWN ASS ADULTS WITH DEGREES, MY GUY. A HANDFUL OF DAYS HE SAYS. A HANDFUL OF DAYS & THEIR SUPPOSEDLY REVEALING SECRETS THEY’VE TOLD NO ONE IN THEIR 23 YEARS OF LIFE. THERE WAS A REASON R&J WERE 13.

(So like is Roman doing multiple political graffiti a day, or—)

Lighting Benjamin on fire; not because he is the worst of the underutilized supporting cast, but because he fundamentally misunderstands what it means to be the Benvolio of the plot & that is unforgivable. Benvolio is my silly little DUDE. This poser doesn't deserve the association.

The potential for plot is here but none of the execution. What was Art doing in the back of that bar, I think that's far more interesting than any of these ✨️secret rendezvous✨️ or bouts of handwringing.

I understand the need to change their names but tell me why I hate EVERY pick the author made 😭😭😭 Too Many Of Them are the names of students I have had in the past 3 years, too 😭😭😭 Roman, Frederick, Benjamin, Preston, Alex, Brooke 😭😭 you are all in 1st grade/kindergarten, go take a nap or something

The two least introspective people in the world taking shots at Psychology majors... Juliette, idk if you should graduate, actually, let alone attend. You're gonna let this man degrade your degree?

Consider: the introductory chapters shouldn't be there. Take place 5 yrs in the past & exist only to contextualize Juliette as a child & bare bits of the family. Too brief to be insightful, & y'all keep saying "Juliette, u used to be so hopeful as a child; now u're so emo & jaded" but there is. Absolutely No Marked Difference In Her Characterization. Save the chapters for a dramatic flashback. Also write accordingly?

Mommy issues? Daddy issues? An evil stepmother? A chronically ill dependent family member? Financial issues? Parentification? Feeling responsible for someone else's addiction? Neglect? Unrealized dreams? A faked death?
Emily McIntire saw a listicle for Top 20 Reasons A Bad Boy Might Have A Heart Of Gold and said: all of them. In his first POV chapter.

Perhaps I am a hater but flirty nicknames in the first encounter? Bro, this book is 500 pages, we have no reason to speedrun anything.

Maybe this is standard fare for romance readers but I am REELING already: QR codes for trigger warnings, playlists like this is a fanfic, social media posts embedded in the story? Am I reading a novel or am I reading fanfic, be so real with me, rn. Romeo & Juliet, modern au, social media au? The five year old who gifted me this could not have known what she did but I am reading this behemoth of a book for her.

Now why is all their mana o ka mo'okū'auhau written down 🤨

UPSET BECAUSE I SUSPECTED THAT FUCKER AT THE GALA BUT DIDN'T WANT TO LOOK SILLY ON MAIN MAKING A JOKE ABOUT IT NOOOOOOOOOO

Just as I was starting to like him, too. Damn.

It wasn't betrayal, guys. Now I feel stupid and miffed.

Every day I open this book and wait for Sora to betray us, and if the hints turn out to be lies I can't decide if I will be disappointed or relieved. Some good tension keeping us going these past ~50 pages, I gotta say.

Did Kea just send Sora Newt's porn stash 😭 to maintain national security 😭

You think the hacker of all people would have that under a better lock & key 😭

I get it, genuinely, & yeah it stays in character for Kea yo open the email impulsively but has girl never had malware before 😭😭😭😭 WHY YOU OPEN A FISHY LOOKING .TXT ATTACHMENT; MISS MA'AM 😭😭😭

Not the 'we're so perfect for each other even our magic is wholly compatible in a way unlike any other'

I do love lethal combat and legalized dueling; on occasion, LA knows what's up

Knew shit was gonna go down at the gala; always does. It was a fun go of near death hijinks & underhanded maneuvers, & the punchiness of the narrative voice makes for great action pieces, but I do think overall, I would like just a little more from the descriptive writing. Its such a unique world we're making & I want to be steeped in it, rather than looking through a sometimes opaque glass.

Don't love that Sora Saw Kea's Palakiko memory already. The pairing will decidedly be a main force in the story & it's cheap to give that personal insight so soon. A memory of Keanu would be better - still revealing but not a Core Memory for Kea. It feels unearned; he didn't have to actively try for the information & it's bonding them prematurely. The Palakiko story has much weight & it's used haphazard, here.

While, initially, I was lightly disappointed the book doesn't take place on Hawai'i nei, & I'm still waiting for more information about The Flood (other people may not like history lesson interludes, but I'm built different & like a Lore Dump (& this book could use one)), I am glad that my past LA visits have given me more insight to the landscape for me to indulge in, since the writing is very straightforward.

Kea messing up the spell because she used kākou instead of kāua, yeah, that's #relatable.

Also, Keanu, do you want to fight? We can go now, unless you're scared.

MO'O MENT 🗣️
(simply have to liveblog this book in real time despite it being my no internet day, i have been waiting for this book to come out, would be a disservice otherwise
((also, an aside, but have not read 1st person pov for so long, the switch really is a whole mental shift 😭))
(((thirdly, makani, i have had you for 6 pages but i would go to war for you)))

Y'all are lucky I didn't read the books before watching the show, I would have never shut up about the gutting of Doran Martell and the TRAITOROUS exclusion of Arianne and Victarion, icons of this novel.

Brienne bought Pod an orange ♡ #IfYouGiveASquireAnOrange

Uncle!Sukuna fics taking their inspo from this canon character will always be my favorite. What do you mean but also why do I understand 😭😭.

Umm... why are we talking about Miguel's musculature 🤨🤨 I don't think just saying "hey, thats racist, lol" changes the fact that we wrote him to have Different Musculature.