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I’ve called the king was Aaron a little while back now, but the real confirmation was him showing up and me thinking “would” immediately. “For a moment, Joan could almost see his face. He was handsome, younger than she’d expected, and strangely familiar.” I SWEAR TO GOD IF THE KILL MY BOY-

No notes, breathtaking, brilliant

Men named Angel are little cowardly weasel slitherer-outers but at least Angel from Buffy is cute about it unlike this misogynistic, narcissistic, despicable, ridiculous personage. I hated his pompous ass since he was first introduced, and I hated him still more. I might hate him even more than Alec somehow?? Honestly I hope all men in Tessie’s life die horrible deaths.

God Im only halfway through, what horrors await us then :(

Thomas Hardy goes from deep, kind understanding of women to ✨ preachy sexism ✨ like a fucking metronome 🌀

« The experience that so OVERWHELMED her for the time » (she was raped btw)

« Let the truth be told: women do as a rule live through such humiliations and regain their spirits, and again look about the world with an interested eye. »

Im getting whiplash

Thomas Hardy is quickly becoming one of my favourite authors! I’m already tearing up

This is SO millennial cringe. The writing is trite, lame banter doesn’t mean the main character actually has any chemistry with her love interests, god spare me the millennial nonsense of acting as though being so qwirky (read here unfocused and sloppy) and obsessing over one breakfast item is an actual legitimate personality.

Affirming my contrarian tendencies by hating The Husband Stitch and loving Mothers and Especially Heinous like please confuse me, I don’t want just the expected

“Madoc says you’ll duel for love.”
“It’s you I love.”

Me, still thinking about Madoc: what ?

To me The Husband Stitch served the same purpose, essentially, as Comfort me with apples, but somehow less. The writing is commendable, but the story itself feels a bit empty, expected? It doesn’t connect with me viscerally like Comfort me with apples did.

The Husband Stitch: so hypersexuality and how it’s not enough for men. I guess. I don’t feel anything about it. I don’t get it?

The romance is genuinely taking years off my life- I yearn for Gabriel Oak’s quiet lameness instead of this nonsense

Probably an unpopular opinion but I still like Madoc 😅

…Why not wait and see what the world will do?’ and he said, …Don’t you see? It always comes at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.’”
“That patient … did he get well?”
“Yes, he got well. Then the Nazis came and they put him into Dachau and he died there.

— Holy fucking shit

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Im sorry but Aaron is just straight up Draco Malfoy, there’s simply no way around it. I was wondering why is was based in Britain when the author is Australian, and now I know why.

Please let this end I cannot read the word groovy anymooooore

I’m apparently 21% through the book and the introduction is STILL going, to my great and utter dismay. I would like to read the manifesto, not the overwrought academic word soup that is so up its academia ass it has no meaning to anyone without a PHD in philosophy and prattles on with utter disregard for readability. May the lord forgive me, for I am but a silly little fool.

I like that Cardan’s friends may all be assholes who hate Jude, but they all collectively will laugh at Loc for being a cheating wretch. Honestly, slay.

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”

Honestly my life’s motto so glad to see the crazy represented.

Are we tryna get we the magical racist here? Cause I’m not down with that shit.

I have 20 minutes left to the audiobook and they’ve apparently just now figured out they can, in fact, do other stuff than fuck!! Wow! Congrats! Yoohoo!

“Hey bbg, I know you experienced food insecurity as a child so I just wanted to let you know that I can make all of THREE dishes to feed you well because my Michelin star chef of an ex taught me 😏😏”

The level of aura loss is actually astounding

Good lord is that man a fucking unbearable simp (with a sex addiction) 🥲 Like maybe take it down a notch ? Ew dude

I wanted to give Sue Lynn Tan another chance because her prose is lush and beautiful (and because the cover of her books keep drawing me in 😅) but her protagonists remain as unbearable as ever…