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“From that emerald tub I’d step, smelling sweet of flowered perfume, and my skin soft as satin, and my pores would be forever cleansed of the rotten stench of dry old wood and attic dust permeated with all the miseries of antiquity . . . so that we, who were young, smelled as old as this house.”

So real Cathy

“I know I shouldn’t be, but you look so beautiful. It’s like I never saw you before. How did you grow so lovely, when I was here all the time?”

PART 1 OVER 🥳

I kept seeing stains on the sheets, and they weren’t large enough to be another of Cory’s dreams of going to the bathroom. They were on Chris’s side of the bed. “For heaven’s sakes, Chris. I sure hope you don’t take to dreaming of being in the bathroom while you’re still asleep in bed.”
I just couldn’t believe his fantastic tale of something he called “nocturnal emissions!”

Oh!

“This is not a pretty house. It’s grand, it’s big, it’s beautiful, but I wouldn’t call it pretty.”

“I want you to make me feel I was there with you, at your side, seeing and feeling what you did.”
He turned his head so our eyes locked and he said in the weirdest voice, “You were there beside me. I felt you there, holding onto my hand, whispering in my ear, and I looked all the harder, just so you could see what I did.”

Things might be picking up now. 👀 Cruel Corinne and Cathy and Chris going through puberty? 😬

Christopher is my fav so far

Good so far, I’m hooked. Don’t trust the mum though 😅

I finally realised that the difference between US and UK covers is the US ones like to have people on the covers while the UK ones tend to avoid it

The way this book’s timeline is actually so synced with real life

Did not realise this was supposed to be so much about Taylor Swift

”I’m not a junkie or something,” I said defensively. “I’m taking some time off. This is my year of rest and relaxation.”

I loooove when they mention the title in the book

“I admit, I’d dreamt of being ravaged by Anne Rice’s vampires. I’d seen it on the big screen in my head. It’s the eighteenth century, and I’m standing in an alley, the handsome, questionably evil Lestat is between my thighs.”

OMG HELL YEAH. Queen

Better written than most dark romances so far

"You shouldn't lie till ten. There's the very prime of the morning gone long before that time. A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone."

Calling me out over here 😭

It’s getting a bit better as I expected with the flashbacks starting - I feel so bad for Heathcliff :(

It’s so boring rn 😭 all that has happened is our random NPC main character got attacked by dogs and talked to a few servants

Uhhh I just realised that Cathy and Heathcliff are technically siblings…

I’m sorry but that ending was ridiculous… It was like oh this person died and that person died and that person died but oh wait! They didn’t actually die it was all just a trick lmao! Plus this guy was a fake and everyone was lying! 😒 And Tella’s acting like she did the best thing in the world while Scarlett’s now traumatised for life and probably won’t be able to trust her sister again 💀

Tella wtf

“The Caraval sky was a creamy blur of butter and vanilla swirls. It made Scarlett think the air around her should taste like sweetened milk and sugared dreams”

🤨 Sentences like this is what’s stopping me from rating this 5 stars