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Tamlin was already a red flag in the first book, but now it's just red flags everywhere you look ⛳🛑⛔📛🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Oh wait, never mind, we're told there will be more faerie females "waiting to be chosen as his mate for tonight" 🙄🤮🫩💩🙈

So far the only female characters in this book are the main character Fayre (idk how to spell her name and I don't care 😅) and servants... Everyone who's in power is male, hmmm. Except for the mystical "she" who we never meet of course.

"You've turned your guilt into resentment, because that seemed easier to face. You won't move on until you turn it back into guilt, and then into forgiveness for yourself."

This would be one hell of a book to discuss in a book club

Someone could have warned me about all the animal violence 😭😱

What a weird book so far. There's an assassin also?

It reads so much like a YA book so far, which is usually fine, but I thought this was meant for adults?

"Štai aš šiame ledo urve kartu su padarais, kurie kadaise vadinosi žmonėmis, kurie kadaise juokėsi, flirtavo, eidavo į svečius ir pas save kviesdavosi, rūpindavosi, kur praleisti vasarą, pavargę po žiemos darbų mieste, kitiems nusivylimą teikdavo blogai pasiūtas rūbas, dviejų kambarių butas buvo per ankštas. Jie dabar tyli. Betgi jų jau nėra. Tokių, kokie jie buvo, jau seniai nėra. Jie mirė birželio keturioliktą"

This is a slow moving read because it's atrocious. My brain is constantly trying to convince me that what I'm reading is fiction, the worst kind of dystopian story. But it's not. It breaks my heart 💔 and it's a very good reality check - at least I don't have to dig myself out of snow to go to work or see people losing their lives left and right as if it's part of daily routine.

"Lėkštas pokštas, reikia būti labai dideliam cinikui, kad juoktumeis iš moterų ir vaikų, atvežtų į Lenos žiotis ir paliekamų žiemai."

I've heard a lot about this series, and I also like dystopian books. So let's see how this goes. "Welcome to the Glade", I guess.

"My understanding of identity has been shattered-I am one facet of an infinitely faceted being called Jason Dessen who has made every possible choice and lived every life imaginable."

The online chat with other Jason doppelgangers was weird to say the least

"I suppose we're both just trying to come to terms with how horrifying infinity really is."

"my wish for you is a vibrant, bright, glorious life"
Aww. Can I mail order an aunt like this for myself?

"being with you makes me feel like I can come up for air"

This is probably the most real way of saying it ever. And the most cheesy one also

"do you ever wonder how God decided whose bodies would require bras and whose wouldn't?/ "I don't think God had anything to do with those boobs" 🤭😂

Need an easy read right now, and some pure entertainment

It reads fast and is interesting but I'm quite unsettled by the fact they first met (due to no fault of his, I guess) when she was a small girl, and she grew up essentially experiencing what could be called grooming? "Henry wearing a tuxedo, undoing the studs of his shirt with shaking hands on my eighteenth birthday." 😱