Amber Loptien > Recent Status Updates

“You’re done after reading them once? You don’t want to reread-“
“Reread them? Are you an idiot? … I’m too busy reading new books. It’s already difficult enough to reach my monthly quota. I don’t have time to reread things.”

Booooooo
Stop love triangles and start polycules

Who do you think you are? Ross and Rachel? Literally everyone in this world thinks they are together except them

I think this book is supposed to be almost genderbent spirited away since the author mentions ghibli (specifically Totoro, I’m assuming in order to not be too on the nose).

I like learning about Hana’s world, but I wish I could get more information at once instead of being spoon-fed its strangeness. This other world is the interesting part of the story, not the main characters.

“We have to share a bed to get to my grandmothers spiritual tea house.”
Are you fucking kidding me??? 🙄 I think this book is not for me.

FMC is glowing blue and paper cranes are flying around her.
MMC: you’re glowing!
FMC, despite never showing any prior insecurities about this: I’m hideous!

😑😑😑
Maybe there is a cultural difference that hasn’t been explained yet, but I am not compelled…

“Onoda’s war is formed from the union of an imaginary nothing and a dream, but Onoda’s war, sired by nothing, is nevertheless overwhelming, an event extorted from eternity.”

“Your base of operations will be the jungle. Your campaign will be one of attrition. Skirmishes, ambushes, unpredictable attacks. You will be like a ghost, elusive, a continuing nightmare to the enemy. Your war will be without glory.”

Tiuri, you have to chill out. You’re scaring the hoes.

Shifting from 3rd to 1st person POV? You’re on thin ice, kid.

All this because two cops didn’t teach their kid about stranger danger?

I’m getting real tired of this “oh, I just remembered crucial information that pertains to this case” bullshit.

I'm having a good time, but there are some things impeding my enjoyment.
1. No way would any type of law enforcement allow the parents of the missing child to work the case. even if those parents were detectives and FBI agents.
2. The FMC's brain blasts that she only gets after she abuses opioids is annoying. Why does she have memory lapses? and why are they only cured when she takes prescription pain pills??

There are some parts that I really like, and some parts that are just so stupid I want to stop reading.

I am… becoming uninterested

“Hard Up” feels very topical after watching a TikTok about plasma donation…