Sydney Knowles > Recent Status Updates

FINALLYYY became available to me on libby… after running thru so much historical romance this year i decided it was time to read THE historical romance. am i excited? yes. do i want it to feel like the tv show and think that it wont really capture the same vibe? also yes. am i scared of the way ms. gabaldon uses SA as a plot point with no further examination? big time yes. here’s hoping its a good time 👍

god i wish i had been alive in 1119. and a man

damn i did not know they were doing all that in ireland. and for so long too

its a beautiful relic of woke1.0 that keefe refers to all hypothetical peoples (e.g. doctors, salespeople, etc) as “she” instead of he. loving that

okay instantly reinforcing my belief that marketing & advertising is the root of all evil…. its like if they made propaganda a career

she so clearly has already made her bag writing romances that this one is actually a historical fun fact book disguised as a romance lol. like you can just tell she was researching anything and everything and wanted to include all the details. wdym the main characters are able to guess the cure to scurvy.

this is starting to drag… trying to stay locked in. i want to know how it ends for everyone but we’re getting bogged down in menial interactions. or maybe its me

honestly keeps making me giggle. i would expect nothing less than for french revolutionaries to have such deeply intwined and downright messy interpersonal relationships. like yeah it all seems rather french

i genuinely dont know how im feeling about this one yet… part 2 just started so we’ll see ig.

this is absolutely bonkers. an endless amount of jaw dropping choices made in this situation so far

ch 22 & 23 are so beautiful <3 such ardent (hehe) love and then a prompt fall from grace, what more could i ask for?

did you know that if you go too long without filling the gothic romance shaped hole in your heart you die? fixing this now.

this is so good. im lost lore wise and everyone is kinda pissing me off in like the most entertaining way possible 👍 #confused

im getting queerbaited the old fashioned way rn 🫩 its like a siren song that calls to me

started a new job & have slowed down on this one immensely which kinda sucks cuz i feel like shes doing the best she has yet at balancing character development & plot so i keep having to put it down before im ready to. fitz is being annoying cuz we could have had some answers by now but he said nah idgaf. i wanted answers bud.

omggg first almost half of this book was soo slow like genuinely very little has happened… second half so far has been messsyyyyy like im loving this from mrs hobb

wrong time for me to be reading this lol im just too busy to really pay attention. also somewhat unfairly i think i wanted this to be more like the jakarta method but it is not & thats okay. shelving for now, hopefully will come back to

simply riveting. ive teared up a few times already, im sure i will again.

hmm ok ig anyone can be amyerlin seat -__-

we somehow are getting more misogynistic every book… planning to finish all 14 cuz its easy car listening and im usually having fun but damn i wish robert jordan would explore the dynamics between men and women a little less. no good points made guy move on!!

this is the white man’s isekai harem story…

hmmm all the characters sound a little different… not putting me off but i keep getting the feeling they would not have said that in the first book… whatever

robert jordan is clearly very interested in writing beautiful sentences. love it

the scifi is awesome, theres a beautiful alien body horror element going on, but he also keeps hitting me with like sjw millennialisms that are making me cringe a little like they feel out of place and a little patronizing considering how much he trusts reader intellect when it comes to the science. why is he holding my hand for the social justice aspect? i want to be showed not told pls

imagine if you were gay. had adhd. were very handsome. cant finish a project to save your life. kept an evil mischievous twink as your lover. and dabbled in a little bit of all studies. pretty much thats what leo was up to im learning…

urghh i didnt listen fast enough and libby took it from me… i will be back

literally been daydreaming about this for 2 week like i personally know these ppl… we’re so back

had to pause cuz im at the beach and this was making me sad… will finish soon tho