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I really thought I would love this book from all I've heard but I'm underwhelmed at best...hoping it gets better...?!

not really getting the hype so far... :/

I have certainly never come across a book that uses the word "notwithstanding" so much as this does, it's quite extraordinary

Have got to *that* bit... how am I supposed to sleep now??? 😅
Yay for characters finally communicating openly...but also wow...wasn't expecting this?! This book is so good but also too creepy for this wimp to be reading right before bed

Ok I get it!!! I really get the hype!!! Admittedly I'm not far in but it's SO GOOD already!!

Also so far I feel like this book has really made a point of stressing that being in your early twenties is actually Very Young Indeed. And that apparently things get better as you age?? Daphne, I'm going to be holding you to that one!! Please be right! And please let the rest of Rebecca be this good 🤞

When rereading my favourite books, I end up taking something slightly different from them each time and noticing new things. This time, the stand out for me is just how *funny* I Capture the Castle is. I'd forgotten just how brilliant the turns of phrase are - no it's not laugh out loud hilarious all the way through, but it is so wry and so exquisitely written as to keep making me smile.

I just can't seem to stop getting pulled back to this book - it really is the ultimate comfort read 🏰

Ooh this is getting good

Also Mr Robert Audley is so giving Mr Utterson from Jekyll & Hyde vibes

I mean, if Lady Audley's secret is what I think it is, it isn't exactly very secret is it?! I guessed about 5% of the way in! But I'm still hoping there will be some twists and turns in this tale...surely there must be?!

So far, I'm on the fence with this. It's a female authored 19th century novel and therefore has my heart. The characters & settings are interesting... however I'm still not gripped yet.

Loving this sooo so much

"I don't care what you say. You've no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they're not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn't give you that right. Having more weapons doesn't give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn't give you that right. Nothing does."

oof🔥

I honestly had no idea what this book would be like - I'd never heard of it until a few weeks ago, but when I saw it was only 78p on kindle I thought I'd give it a go (even if I did feel a little put off by the extremely moral & pious sounding blurb!). But wow have I been pleasantly surprised, I can see it becoming one of my favourite books...I am LOVING it! Let's hope the second half lives up to the first :)