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This is just feeling like a lecture about people I've only ever heard about and the longest explanations for everything. Not in a good way like Babel either.

Wtf is he complaining about Amber lying when he's literally the biggest liar of them all???

"Your view on the world changes when you have to parent your parents."

Damn, that hit a little too close to home

I'm actually so sick of reading seemingly strong FMCs, but when it's a life or death situation, they always need saving.

Why did the book description just spoil the entire novel?? She's only now just escaping from the pack, and from what I'm reading, it looks like she'll be found pretty quickly. I feel bad for all the scavengers that helped her.

She narrowed her eyes. “Q treats you better than all my owners ever treated me. You’re so lucky.” Her tone turned sullen. “You don’t even know.”

So just because she isn't raped every day and is only manhandled sometimes, she has it so easy. This bitch is pissing me off.

"We both pause in the doorway, seeing Barry lifting Bernadette into the chair, the cooked human meat on a plate in front of her."

This has got to be inspired by Jeffrey Dahmer

"I pour her a tea, and she passes me a bowl of grapes while Dez and Tylar tell us about their travels."

Why are they talking about their travels when they have literally just found out that Kade had been abused for years?? What is going on here.

Tobias rolls his eyes. “Was your dad a rapist, murderer and an abusive asshole?” He steps forward. “Did your dad groom a fourteen-year-old girl?” Kyle shakes his head, turning white. “No. But he did beat us.” He tuts and tilts his head. “No comparison, kid.”

Why are we comparing traumas acting like getting beat isn't traumatic asl 💀

This is the trashiest shit I've read in a hot minute

The way these last 20 or so pages had me in such a grip. The tension that was brewing and the cat and mouse between Raskolnikov and the detective with the play on words and the philosophy woven in between...it was all so good!!

I almost couldn't believe this was the same Raskolnivov that was delirious with terror with all this cunning he showed.

Why does Dostoyevsky feel the need to use 50 different names for one character. Got me looking up names only to find out it's the same person.

"But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot."

Damn

There's no reason for a book with no plot and just sex to be this long

"This was happening. He'd taken her from her house. Bared her before his eyes. He was raping her."

When are we going to stop romanticising rape and abuse just because the guy is hot.

"Bren hates all girls who aren’t at least a size twelve."

I'm sorry, but wtf is wrong with this book? The constant hate on girls, bodyshaming, and Violet not being like other girls is getting to me.

«Tocca di nuovo mia moglie e spezzerò ogni singolo osso che hai in quel cazzo di corpo».

Prima il bacetto e adesso questo. Anch'io voglio un Aiden 🥲

«Non essere tanto presuntuoso, non sai niente. Non sai niente di me né di Vanessa. E se è incinta, non fare quella faccia del cazzo, a meno che tu non
sia pronto ad accettarne le conseguenze».

Aiden così mi fa battere il cuore come una scema 😩❤️

Questo libro mi sta piacendo molto più di quanto pensassi anche se lo sto leggendo molto più lentamente di quanto lo avrei fatto in inglese.

“People are like horses, Andy. Fingers and Fists too—everyone. Any old horse will run when it’s whipped, but only fast enough to avoid the whipping,” Hilo said. “Racehorses, though, they run because they look at the horse on their left, they look at the one on their right, and they think, No way am I second to these fuckers.”

This is exactly why Hilo is my favourite character in all this.

I feel really bad saying this, but the story is not hitting right. There's nothing objectively wrong with the book, I think the writing is awesome, but it's not gripping me the way I expected.

Idk, maybe it will get better.

“You can’t blame them,” she said, moving her hips encouragingly. His fingers glided in and out, slippery and warm.

I did not expect this to have any spice, but I didn't really know much about this book.

“Jesus Christ, big brother. Wear a fucking bell around your neck.”

I AM SO FUCKING SICK OF THIS DUMB BROTHER SISTER KINK. THEY LITERALLY FUCKED LIKE??? How is anyone with siblings comfortable reading or writing shit like this?!?

“Seeing what all the fuss is about. I’ve been wondering what it’s like, you know? Having someone all defenseless and compliant to use like a cheap toy. Someone I can hurt.”

MY GIRL STORY IS FINALLY GETTING A BACKBONE!!!

“Killian,” she says, her voice filled with what has to be false resolve. “I choose Killian.”

I don't even want to know about the dumb logic behind this decision. Is she seriously going to choose a rapist?? All of the men are bad, but he's literally the worst. This is probably one of the most ludicrous and ridiculous things I've ever read in my life.

Are people in America really like in this book?? Who cares if you're still a virgin when you're like 17-20. Why is everyone in this book so shallow. No way every girl is just jealous of Story when she's literally a sex slave.

"At the far end of the political spectrum, Japanese ultranationalists have threatened everything from lawsuits to death, even assassination, to silence
opponents who suggest that these textbooks are not telling the next generation the real story."

I wonder if Iris Chang's suicide actually wasn't a suicide at all but something more sinister.

“I am nothing, if I’m not yours.” His jaw tenses, water lining his lower lid until it spills over, a single tear tracing the raised flesh of his scar and dripping off his chin. “So do it. Kill me, Sara. Put me out of this constant purgatory of needing you without having you.”

MY MANNN 😩❤️

“Because, ma petite menteuse, the thought of not kissing you makes me want to die.”

This guy may be a villain I would be running away from as far as I can in real life, but the way he has me in a chokehold. Emily can write such a good villain.

“I prefer you this way,” he coos from above me. “On your knees, chest heaving, and face flushed while you stare up at your betters.”

There's something seriously wrong with me for finding this and Tristan hot.