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good job guys, happy ending
we can finis here
the next 400ish pages don’t matter
happy ending
right
RIGHT

okay so the biggest downside to this so far is that… when you write a fanfiction, you work with a preconceived idea of the world and its functions, it’s laws and magics. When you then turn that fanfiction into its own standalone work, you have to explain the rules of this world.
SenLinYu, bestie, i don’t know what the fuck an animancer is

ok this is actually really good once you start understanding wtf is going on

i mean, i assume the assumption is that helena is an unreliable narrator (at this point anyway) in regards to how great the old regime was because she was literally sterilised for something she couldn’t control
like bestie that is the same eugenics that has you in a forced breeding program rn
like i am failing to believe your side was “good” and not just better at hiding evil

i am SO confused
also this is very pro-monarchy, like, i’m not saying that the Holdfast’s were bad leaders, but just that The Sun God choosing one man’s entire lineage for undisputed rule for centuries to come IS an odd way to choose rulers
particularly when it appears people couldn’t choose their alchemic affinity and they said necro and vivimancers were illegal yanno

fuckin hell some of these cults do shit you can’t even imagine

god cults are crazy

the idea is there but the writing is not very good. the author is convinced her book isn’t doing as well because people don’t like dark gothic things which is not only wrong but an odd thing to say

Carissa Broadbent continues to be a phenomenal story teller

sorry but i love ya it’s so beautifully low stakes

i am, and always have been, a nico di angelo stan

the crazy think about reading a book from a different characters POV than the og is that I realise i can’t remember what tf happened in the book

it’s so funny that Alex Aster’s self insert is the worst character in her books
like, i’m sorry babe but Isla genuinely sucks

this is such a weirdly clinical book man

OKAY new theory
spoiler warning obvs

jerry is grooming emily, tate, helen, and maddy find out, they decide to frame jerry for maddy’s death because she doesn’t want emily to know she has an inoperable brain tumour

okay i was kind of right
i have no clue what’s going on

updating my progress here for my theory about the plot twist-

spoiler warning (obvs)
i bet that “helen” is her affair partners wife
surely it is

duuuude fuck the family international, that is insane

I have a feeling that Lord of the Flies-esque mania may take over this town

oooh I’m so hooked, a little confused by the french title abbreviations but I’m figuring it out and tbh it doesn’t distract too much either anyway. Honestly so intrigued

LUCINDA DARK HIM EATING HER OUT, SAVING UP PUSSY JUICES IN HIS MOUTH AND THEN (WITHOUT WARNING) SPITTING THEM INTO HER MOUTH SHOULDVE BEEN IN THE TRIGGER LIST SO I COULDVE AVOIDED THE PHYSICAL HORROR I WENT THROUGH READING THAT

the author doesn’t seem to know how go progress the plot naturally so just has some dude die for no reason so the FMC can have sex with one of the MMC’s in a grief induced drunk rage
like the writing isn’t bad but the pacing is ATROCIOUS