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THE YEARNING. THE FUCKING YEARNING.

"Part of me feared, before that night. That I was a fool for wanting to know you. For seeing you in everything, everywhere I turned", he said. "I thought it was a sentence. A haunting. Until I realised it was a gift to be haunted by you, Paige."
"Perhaps I haunted you. But I am not a ghost just yet", I saud softly. "You can touch me."

also the plan to kill Jaxon. He had it coming

i did like arcturus and paiges relationship already but this book is actually making me ship them which is very fun. i am just super happy to actually have him there and see more of him and his story because i really do enjoy it

i do so deeply miss maria tho

seeing more of arcturus is actually a delight

as short as this novella is, this shit will hurt so much

Maria wanting to burn everything down is so relatable

i actually really wasn't as annoyed by paige in the other books but ever since she started being underqueen she really is doing questionable and stupid stuff.
i do be rooting for her and her two braincells tho

I am actually so excited to start the third part. After being not super sure and needing some time to get into "Bone Season" and not being sure about Warden and Paige, I am so in love with this book and with them. I am actually so hyped.

(Even tho Paige does sometimes very much infuriate me. But also the Rephs working with her are actually kinda funny)

Okay but like - Paige is talking about killing Hector but I don't understand why she isn't considering Jaxon. I really don't. Maybe she's too attached to him in a toxic way but there are multiple people in his gang that don't like him and he is making himself more unlikable

Jaxon Hall is a pain upon this World (also Paige, really rooting for you and your power of being a female dystopian fantasy protagonist in the 2010s)

I am actually so excited to finish it and start the second book

tho I probably will put "the merits of the unnatural" inbetween it, just to get more worldbuilding

i love liss so much and i love the performers. they are so cool

Okay, I think I know who the love interest is and it's a REAL power imbalance but I did hear its a really slow burn and also it is marketed as enemies to lovers, so toxicity is to be expected (Also I really like the potential love interest. he is really intruiging)

Funnily enough I enjoy the side characters more than Paige (who sometimes frustrates me but I still like her)

ALSO THE WORLDBUILDING IS SO GOOD

okay i very badly need to know more about the performers

Okay listen, this indeed has massive 2013 dystopian YA vibes and i am laughing about that BUT the worldbuilding is so intruiging (even tho i don't understood shit so far but eh we ball)

it's written very juveline/modern which is something i had to get into first, now its actually very much okay. it's easy to read and some POVs I really do enjoy

Oh, Alice. Tragic Alice, who is still infurating me sometimes but oh, how I understand you. I get you so much.

Also i am a sucker for tragic love stories. I truly am.

Also "Socrates was murdered for being annoying" is such a funny line

"A beast gnaws at me at all hours of the day, but you can't see it. I feel so weak and scattered my mind won't work - but here I am speaking to you, clearly alert. My tummy hurts - What a joke"

As someone with a chronic illness this line HURT.

This whole chapter did honestly. I bawled

I am so gay for Elspeth

Alice is infuriating me most of the time but I think that's also because I relate to her very deeply in so many ways

Alice, stop talking about eyelashes pls i beg of you. I get it. Peter has beautiful long lashes

A) I really love Peter
B) someone should have told me thats just a comedy book. i love that
C) IF ALICE CONTINUES TO LIE TO HERSELF ABOUT GRIMES ONE MORE TIME I MIGHT LOOSE IT (i don't even know what he did yet but i know he's an asshole)

Alice being horny for Peter while saying that she hates him is absolutly hilarious