Kerensa > Recent Status Updates

sorry guys is this just me or is there kind of a Vibe between islington and roland? please discuss in the comments, thanks

started on 3/30/26! (i have to put this note because it always annoys me when i forget to record my actual start time when i log goodreads midway through a book)

i'm glad this one leaves off in a nice spot but it is so ANNOYING that there are no ebooks for this series and i dont think my local libraries have book 4 so if i want to actually finish this reread i may need to just buy book 4 >:(

everyone say "hiiiiiiii disguised-argul"

argul is here! everyone say "hiiiiiiii, argul 🥰"

tanith lee, a pioneer in the "what if there was a gorgeously nonchalant prince whose golden hair shimmered in the sun, but also he kinda irredeemably sucks" field

claidi you are so Girl Of All Time

i'm trying to finish this in one night, wish me luck. anyway this new character is a rich asshole AND he's transphobic? guys let's kill him with our swords

it's actually so unfair that i can't recommend this book to murderbot simply because murderbot is a "fictional character" who "doesn't exist"

the audiobook is very good but switching to print was definitely the move

protestant work ethic mentioned

ok i was wrong before, fantasy!ptolemaic empire DOES have the sibling intermarriage. it also has nightsoil carts which is a detail you never see mentioned in fantasy (let alone ya fantasy). #historicalaccuracy #parkour

oh so we're taking inspo from ptolemaic egypt. got it! does this royal family do the sibling marriage thing or no? (seems like not. just as well)

damn i really knew it, huh

i'm ok with true love between a girl and her frog but if her frog turns out to be who i think he might be....idk guys...

i started off thinking we were doing twelve dancing princesses with vampires but i am now seeing shades of princess and the frog

(guys is the frog the love interest? guy you have to tell me if the frog is the love interest. actually you don't have to tell me...i think i know)

oh my GOD don't piss me off. cezar when i catch you you're DONE FOR

i stopped in the middle of a really tense scene a few days ago and now i don't want to pick it up to continue because what if something BAD happens

Really enjoying this so far, but according to the reviews it does get kinda violent/torturey? sooooI'll see how it goes. May end up DNFing. Beautiful prose so far though!

i spent so much of last year with a book constantly occupying my "currently reading" shelf...now i feel uneasy when it's empty. but what to read next!(?) i haven't decided! is this what drives people to make TBRs?

"Mark is afraid that if he stays in one place, he'll start having a full range of emotions that he isn't interested in experiencing, so he puts [the dog's] leash on and heads to the bakery."

Why is he so real and so meeee

"Before ten minutes [of Eddie telling Mark about this awful book] have passed, Mark has committed to buying this book first thing in the morning and reading it immediately so they can be petty about it together tomorrow night."

your honor, this is true love

'"It's a thriller, and everyone in it is gay," Mark says. "And awful. The author is apparently gay as well. And awful." He pauses and shrugs. "One relates."'

LMAO

oh so they did kiss and it was disastrous. got it. i also now understand why people would want to murder toby, AND i feel like our mc really missed out on some hints aaron was dropping in their second conversation regarding terminating pregnancies. current murder guess: ...hugo? just because he doesnt seem to have an obvious motive and that makes him arbitrarily suspicious to me LOL

guys are these guys gonna kiss?? romance subplot in the campus novel/murder mystery?? please circle: y/n

have to admit, augustine would have loooooved tumblr discourse. you know he would have had a discourse tumblr!