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“I was blamed more for resenting mistreatment than anybody was blamed for mistreating me.” Quotes like these make me question if I do hate the book or like it

"the ice-hearted, treacherous Beauty Dipped In Blood, suddenly become a Beauty Drenched In Blood. Slick gore coated Lady Rahela’s arms to the elbows. Not the faintest trace of snow-white remained on her red-stained dress."
It's SOO hard to care for these characters, the pacing makes it difficult

“I’m a heartless monster with a strong character and stronger eyeliner game [...]" ...what???

“The only thing worse than a woman being too innocent was a woman being too guilty.”

nessa‘s dead and Glinda and Elphie have seen each other for the last time after finding out their paths diverged too much
stuff is happening again but it’s so slow

how i love children stories. your house is flying around due to a tornado? okay - shit happens, let's go to bed and sleep as a reaction lmao

„i am married, but not to a man“
spiritually married to glinda 😭

something finally happens !!! both travel to the emerald city and the way and the reason is entirely different from the musical.
their parting still takes place and it breaks my heart seeing glinda cry for elphie
*crosses fingers* please let it continue to have things happening… the prose is hard to get through

it reads itself painfully slow.

btw cried hardcore at the second movie. i know though that this won't be like the movie so i'm okay with that - i do genuinely like the different approaches!

different from the movie, darker even. i like the different approach though. its boring at times but thats normal for 500 pages to be stale at times. i’m excited to read more

humanity is about to be wiped out and we are experiencing a ballroom “Apollo is making my husband jealous” scene i can’t make this shit up

i hope it will be somewhat explored that Pandora was literally created to care about Matheos and that these arent her own feelings? surely it will be

I think it is a great help that I do not know the complete myth of Pandora's box. It makes this story somewhat exciting - I believe I would have otherwise dropped this book...

the first 70 pages felt like a cheap soap opera, but it‘s turning into something better, I feel like

jana is officially losing it

okay i’m starting to realize that Hana is heavily traumatized by money and if I didn’t know that shes in her late teen years i would assume that she’s the adult and that Kimiko is her age. i’m so excited and confused how this story is supposed to conclude - given how it started on the very first page

hana just leave kimiko and the rest pls

holy shit, I want to strangle Hana's mother

no one makes poverty as graspable as mieko

okay i get it now - huge simp travels back in time to meet his idol and travels by her side (aka quality time) while getting to know each other + being a passenger princess on her horse

which war is waging? i’m lost

the slow burn and countless name dropping was too much for me. i would’ve loved to like this, but almost 100 pages in and i can’t imagine reading more. i’m sorry Alba, you could’ve been so much more to me