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she can fix him: mean faery edition

time for the “i probably shouldn’t like him bc he’s an asshole but also mmmmmm” experience to continue

great book, i give it 4 stars - only negative was that ironically, hark and jelt’s relationship could have been “fleshed” out more (ha get it) because we get told they were close but never see it lol

very enjoyable :)

quest is the very definition of a plot twist and i love him for it

bro i completely forgot that jelt gets transformed into a weird octopus monster thing 💀

this book is actually peak, it has:
- great world-building and lore
- a likeable main character (WOOOOO)
- super interesting character dynamics
- great prose and plot

side note: i find it funny how i wasn’t able to read harry potter at age 12 but somehow this book passed the sniff test 😂

re-reading this gem, i remember REALLY enjoying it back in 2019 so i wanna read it again from a not-12-year-old perspective hahaha

yes i just read all eleven of these in two weeks, what about it

will treaty my beloved

but like fr though jude is such a cool character, idk how long it’s been since i’ve read a fantasy MC as smart as her lol

very enjoyable first book 👏👏

hot mean faery man who has trauma and loves the protagonist but hates how he loves the protagonist goes in for the kiss: ultimate romantasy trope mmmmmmmm

ok plot guessing time: cardan is actually a hot cruel faery with trauma ha gotcha

operation “get out of my reading slump”

i have read way too many classics time to go back to hot faery men

great message, although it could have been more concise and there were a number of grammatical errors. good book though :)

ok i give up this is going to the dnf pile 💀

hannah kent what were you thinking when writing this WHY IS THE MAIN CHARACTER A GHOST WHAT IS THE POINT PLEASE TELL ME

damn this book really click-baited me lol it went from lutheran christian to queer in like a few pages 😭🙏

something tells me this is a liiiiiiitle bit innacurate to 1830’s prussia but i’ll overlook it for the plot i guess

damn that plot twist was crazy, i hope this incredibly niche author gets some recognition for this book

ok so apparently this is the fourth in a series, watch me cry as i didn’t know this until like 10 seconds ago

also i had no idea agatha christie was mega famous i just liked the book cover 💀

ok that part of the book was actually really great, moving from a 2.5 to a 3.5 - why couldn’t it have been this good earlier though 😭

yikes that escalated veeeery quickly

yay the plot is finally becoming interesting

ok so why did the last third of this book turn out to be good, adding 1.5 stars because the rest was still unreadable :D

my worst enemy has entered the ring: smut 🙂‍↔️

my biggest pet peeve is when authors overcrowd their prose with useless and incomprehensible descriptions. actually am starting to full on hate this book lol

i actually don’t know if i can handle this dialogue for much longer: “put that machine away. we are lunching” like tf 😭

describing sesame street as “deformed monstrosities against the will of god” is WILD

i can already tell this book is gonna be so bad that it’s good 😂

please fitz why didn’t you get regal to build a statue in your honour i would have died laughing

i seriously can’t get over how funny fitz’s internal monologue is

his newest epiphany: “i was suddenly determined that i was going to start making everyone behave as they should.” SERIOUSLY WHAT GROWN MAN THINKS THIS HES SUCH A MANCHILD AND I LOVE IT

ngl i love reading about characters going insane especially when it’s my guy fitz (hobb’s prose is absolutely beautiful idk how she does it)

dude making fitz relive his torture by forcing him to describe it in detail is not cool 👎