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nearing the end of the book
it’s getting crazier
i could‘ve guessed it, so does it count when i say i am surprised and then i‘m not at the same time?

didn’t rlly get the point of making merrick a strong fmc and a damsel in distress as well until i read the dedication tbh
(as a major jane austen fan i get it)

wish the arc w killian gets wrapped up clearer
other than that this is fun!!
🤍

SPOILER!

honestly why we acting like this is news to us?

he was clearly a momma’s boy from the first moment and reading THAT letter is painfully agreeing to it. he was weird from the start.
above all it‘d be nice for once if essie said the full truth. wdym he looked enamoured but threatened you before huh 😭
red flaggg

and then he’s most likely the villain wtf man

nvm she just agreed to marry some guy who is so obviously hiding that he just wants to use her and she goes „okay why not, can’t get any worse atp“ (relatable!!)

nvm that now, she obv doesn’t want to marry him either but for the sake of it, bc it had been her purpose and she’s pining for smth farther ahead
smart one
plus she knew right away she likes the other guy but there’s no future for them ugh

oh merrick is so fun and so refreshing!
feared it‘d be too focused on the romance but nope
instead mystery takes most part of it and strange incidents occuring, weird character behaviours
oh how observant she is and the things she notices at times
love love love

loved reading abt all acotar characters
didn‘t like the crossover at all it was weird and they felt so off character suddenly especially w the revelation abt the prison just out of the blue

everything after however was so much better
i wish there was more abt lidia i think a book abt her would be very interesting…

~ to kill him? no, roma. this is much better,~
Marya said, (…)
~(…) you chose yourself over your father, (…) and you chose one son over the other. you both chose as i once chose, and now you‘ve both known loss as i have known it, because neither of you can ever forget what you‘ve done.~

casually dropping my fave quote here, have fun <3

for all the plot and drama and death that went on it is seriously getting boring now
also are we lowering ourselves to haunt someone for funsies ?? you go girl i guess 🤷‍♀️
i‘m skimming atp idk what to make of it its like they‘re planning but then change the way of executing midway and it makes no sense in fact its confusing me, i can’t keep up

so much crazy stuff happening
it all comes together, really every little thing
and the title makes so much more sense now, the farther one gets

to me this feels like that sort of book you only pick up once and read very carefully
as you will never reread it again

this has been so long i forgot how much this book means to me how much i feel represented in it
now 3 years later rereading it with a different mindset and knowing about that little word reveal i‘ve been paying more attention to kai’s observations, actions and ofc max
sure i loved him before but now ohmydays
i can‘t explain it
this is everything to me
i‘m glad i own it physically now iykyk

OMG ACOTAR WORLD

i am in shock
what the hell went down
eternal city was so random also not nice of ruhn w the reveal of days identity it was sooo obvious all pointed to her
but whattttt
i was mostly indifferent to this book tho i liked tge drama and was so here for ruhns povs he‘s my fave character plus danika and baxian
crazy how her death influenced a whole series
insane insane

um what 😭

WHAT THE HELL WENT DOWN HOLY CHRIST
okay so ithan got chewed on
day and night had a cinderella meet me at midnight moment
and celestina and hypaxia have a thing going on i am so confused atp

updates:
i like the pacing every other page there’s some sort of drama and i‘m here for it

what i‘m not here for is hunts unnecessary emotional drama and his need to compare bryce and shahar
just bro get over it now

also did not feel the ✨fyi y‘all are fated mates✨ moment bfr that was so anticlimactic

also can’t stand bryce she’s cool ngl but it’s always HER HER HER w/o even seeking attention

ummm so what is going on every other page sm drama and i‘m living for ittttt

this is much better than the first book
however i couldve lived without the ithanlovesbryce arch it was absolutely unnecessary and yes she is so goodlooking everybody in the book lusts after her but what abt her personality? or why is connor suddenly downtalked? did it have to be the only friend she had left from the pack?
why just why…

can‘t believe how easily i forgot half the resolution of the previous book 💀

but now onto my theories
starting w ketos (why does he have his own pov now? hm…) i think he has had/wants to have longterm legs or at least not be bound to water
he said that kinda weirdly

on another note (spoiler!) the moment lidia was mentioned?? and hypaxia said she was there bc of her…so the hind owns that place? truth tho?

bryce: …too fae for the humans, woe is me right?
hunt: it builds character ✨

atp it’s all i have to say abt this book

it’s all over the place and some things don’t add up but ig some of it is tied to the other worlds
just enjoying the ride now 🤷‍♀️

this book is so weird
i like it i‘m flying thru the pages
but i feel like the plot takes up sm space i can’t really tell what personalities the characters have (especially hunt) it makes it a little flat for me sadly
and then the whole time ppl lusting after brice okay i get she’s attractive but at one point its repetitive
or the random talks abt the traumatic past ending in a sexual tone? the big gun? huhh ??

w. t. f.



whathefuckwhatthefuckwhatthefuckdidijustread
holygrailtothedarkestpitswhatthehell

what. the. hell.

sjm when i catch you
ohmygod and she had just become my fave character along w fury
i had hoped for more page time more details into her past

whoever reads this
brace yourself
i am speechless

ooh i finally got around to read this i‘m so excited idk why i couldn’t get into it before

the beginning is so sudden no explanations no anything plus sjms books usually start w somewhat of action and this is just a normal thursday evening ok
also i rlly hope bryce puts connor out of misery he seems decent enough
curious abt danika and the other roomies its all such a vague mystery

i forgot how much i love this book
i learn sm thru reading this and every time i feel
that elizabeth bennet and i are very similar
actually i find a lot of similarities w ppl around me and the characters

darcy is so admirable too
also i‘m reading a diff version which is not 100% accurate but nvm lol

idk why its taking me so long it’s actually plotwise quite good
i think it might be the writing
and also the characters being a little too weird and slightly overdramatic at times

ok wtf was that ending

idk there was *something near* of a plotline but at the same time it gave nothing?
rosa is a very interesting character i can’t even tell who she really is and ig that’s the point?
james is cool but at times it was giving kenji x aaron mashup and that makes sense but is also very weird
oh and don’t forget the romance that went wild ltr the last 3 pages out of thin air? i don’t get it

Omg soooo many plottwists and it’s so so good maybe by far one of my favorites and juliette got finally a great personality

so crazy how i did suspect castle and delalieu but i never ever considered he had seen it all and not even dropped a hint at aaron

love love how he proposed to her in such a simple but good way totally their style (ella is 17-18 tho, he‘s 20 like bro 🤨 try living) all the devolpment>>

what. the. hell.

kenji‘s pov>>>

surprisingly i like heartbroken-shaved-her-hair-on-a-drunken-whim juliette much much more than her false confidence „i‘m not like my past anymore“ (yet behaves exactly like that minus the scaredy shy expressions and instead a tad bit more outgoing) self
it was something she needed badly
to find herself on her own without the whole „i need to be loved/ i like being in love(d)“ issues

thoughts dump!

why was this so hard to get into????

ugh but it’s so much better than in the beginning

love nazeera she’s so fun and so cool

again juliette sadly as unbearable as always every sidecharacter is so much more interesting in comparison

also i always had a feeling abt castle i think he knows much much more than he’s saying he’s not dumb/naive at all he just has hope…a bit tol much of it…

how in the world-
THATS what i call an unreliable narrator
nothing is what it seems
and i love all characters so much this kinda reminds me of the secret history narrator wise 🤍
also how deep this is and how it’s dealing with the philosophical thoughts of what’s real and what is not, who should be saved, what is morally right, whats evil,… and so on
ugh in love and didn’t see plottwists coming at all

has me cackling at every other page and the musical theme got me

might be the first book in ages where i can’t tell how it’s going to end

props to it being the right amount of deep & emotional without loosing its lighthearted energy and being at times just silly and goofy in a good way


it has everything there is and the isekai historical fantasy theme is perfect as i‘m a huge manwha fan

this is criminally underrated
i never even knew the auther had worked w THE cassie clare
story started so flowery it was giving dark fairytale
+ the lore runs SO DEEP now i get why the back of my book has like 6 blank pages ofc i gotta jot down so much
it’s so so good like the only thing i‘d say is a bit odd is how obviously rae isn’t rahela and no one says it out loud
+ reading all the intrusive thoughts XD

this is so terrible i‘m considering dropping it 50 pages before it ends
zade when i catch you…
‚i‘ll never cut her‘, he said and proceeds to make her bleed so. many. times.
‚i just want her to love me‘, but when she’s crashing out (understandably so) he makes it all abt him
wants her in his sheets sb but girly is traumatised and he forces it out
makes sibby move into HER house WITHOUT asking 💀