Riley McKenna > Recent Status Updates

When he beats the snot outta guy for doing the same thing to you that he also did 🤪😩🫢. I’m starting to believe that Huang has a deeply pessimistic philosophy of the human person. Everyone in this “romance” novel is either actively malicious or complacent.

Every other page feels like being punched square in the nose. Congrats to Murm for an already wildly successful rage bait pick.

This is actually making me so anxious

“Hey, Riley, you’re moving through this slowly. Is it not good.” No, it’s good. I’m just illiterate, and the past couple of months have put my brain into an easy bake oven. Not starting the year off strong…

I wanna beat up everyone in Margo’s life and be her free babysitter

So Mark’s a terrible person AND a terrible poet

Ok, Rory’s growing on me

Have I contrarian-ed so close to the sun that I just automatically find every romantasy mmc icky?

Ok so Rory genuinely apologizes for being an ass just to insult Sox again the very next breath? In a scene that’s supposed to have romantic tension?? I’m enjoying the rest of the story, but I really think I just don’t like the “I hate you but I’m into you” style romance. Was lowkey expecting courtly love in this knight romantasy…

Is Bartholomew in the room with us?

I stg if Rory is another Rhysand clone I’m gonna kill somebody

“Folk say bad women marry in May.” Yikes, thanks for that, Ovid…

Finally in the mindset to lock in and actually read.

So far, I’m so glad to read a modern gothic novel that understands that the genre has to feel like fucked up tea that everyone else knows except for you and the protagonist. And it’s the kind of tea I know I’m gonna regret learning. I love this shit

Lucy and Alice have the survival instincts and intuition of a potato chip.

A healthy couple? In my romance novel? I guess more likely than I thought.

Lenny, hunny, begging is not a good look for you, girl.

Lenny’s mother is everything I wanna be by the time I’m 60, tacky apartment included.
Also, I would have never guessed Lenny was Italian outside of her being good at Hearts.

Has she never seen a first aid kit before??

I really hope Lenny tones down the quirk, cause I’m struggling with her pov already. I’m intrigued by the story set-up, though.