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Will he ever go to class? That's my main question going into this.

Okay, ditching strange the dreamer. One of the few YA i had remaining on my tbr. I will avoid them like plague in future. This rivers of London audiobook much better choice for me. Its funny (the deadpan ghost interview to start off with? Hilarious) and audiobook narrator is AMAZING. I LOVE him.

Where do people get the patience. I feel like I did reading sword of kaigen. Like, I get it, Lazlo is plucky but downtrodden. Thyon is an asshole with daddy issues. Literally just put that in the prologue and let's get on with it. I will believe you. I for one think authors SHOULD just tell and not show some things and then we could get a move on 😤

Now I have to listen to this man's sob story 😮‍💨 a witch did bad things to him and then she was killed, yay,but now he wants them all dead? This makes zero sense. I'm team Alex, the reasonable one who actually got rid of the bad witch and still went on to be a good friend to other witches. Or team be single and get therapy. Why does the author think I would care about this dumbass man 😭

...did I get fooled into a fantasy version (witchhunter) of a cop romance? Yes, fuck the police but not literally, ma'am. This man just did a sad face bc sometimes his coworkers do extra violence at the arrest and he doesnt like that 😔??? Arresting and executing women would not suddenly be good and fine if they all followed procedures.

Ehhhhhh idk about this one. The world just seems depressing.....

I like it bc it has birds on the front. Seems kind of lit ficcy, we'll see if I like it or if its too high brow for me.

Currently telling this book that if it doesn't get better its going back to the free little library like I would threaten a misbehaving pet with the pound

This is just as fun the second time bc theres so much going on that I remembered almost none of it so im still hooked on the plot/seeing what happens next. Prepotente finally showed up again, i love him, he's so funny.

I got the physical book so I'm re-reading bc its long and i know i missed things in the audiobook. Plus, the next one is out in May, yay!

Its like....Lesbian Deadpool + Clue murder mystery + Space/Necromancy/Magic/Funtime. Its a masterpiece

This book is so fun, and funny, and cool. LOVE Gideon and harrow already. I! Love! Mean! Women! Doing! Crimes! Its unique in a lot of ways from anything I've read so far, but has the familiarity of a good fun space romp. Love the concept as well - i am really hooked on finding out where it goes, the competition. LOVE enemies having to work together. The cover is so good too!

The only worthwhile version of the stairs plot point would be if, when Nesta finally makes it all the way down, she stretches and does the Midwest thigh slap and goes "welp, time to whoop some ass" and then goes into town and beats everyone up from the nightcourt. I feel like that's not going to happen so this book is inferior to my vision.

The entire night Court could die and I wouldn't shed a SINGLE tear. Rhysand is PURE trash - not telling his wife about a potentially fatal pregnancy complication is crime number one. Crime number 2 is that the complication is so eyerollingly bad. Jail for SJM, jail for 1000 years.

The fun in this book is imagining that its a different book. I don't know how to explain that.

If this were a book about Nesta figuring her shit out without any of the rest of the inner court? It'd be a 10/10. She should have given them all the middle finger and gone to another court.

I enjoyed hate-reading the earlier books but they were eyeroll level bad not "piss me off" bad. Based on spoiler reviews this mayyyyy be the latter and take a quick trip to the dnf pile. Its a pity bc nesta is one of the few characters I actually REALLY like. I haven't even started and im already like "justice for nesta"....

I wasn't even going to put this on goodreads ☠️ but now i have two smart books in my currently reading and it just felt really disingenuous. 💁‍♀️ Anyways I don't recommend this side series to anyone and I am Elise's biggest hater. If she doesnt have any haters im dead. I should dnf but sunk cost fallacy. Its bad like a 90s series where writers ran out of ideas so they do side quest episodes.

I FINALLY found this in a thrift store. It was an assigned text in college. It is 400 pounds so at the time I ripped out the chapters that were homework and took those to class (perhaps appalling other students? Idk.), so of course I pitched the whole thing afterwards. But ive thought of it often in the years since. I want to read small bits of smart stuff and an anthology is ideal.

Yes, im finally reading it. Maybe a chapter a day.

Delightful, scandalous. I should read more horror in general.

Also, the scene where Misaki stands there while her son gets whaled on parallels the scene where her father in law is berating her while her loser ass husband stands by and does nothing. I have THOUGHTS about that.

I do feel like this is going to go somewhere really good. The problem is that for 7 hours i have been listening to a woman (who is perfectly capable of killing people) put up with an asshole loser man and I must ask myself whether it will be worth the secondhand psychic damage 🤣 if this book can make me understand this, it will be the greatest accomplishment of fiction ever, so I will let them cook for now.

"show not tell." The problem is that I, the reader, have zero interest in being SHOWN a crappy marriage to a crappy man. You could just TELL me in a single sentence that its a crappy marriage with a crappy man and we could move on to the fun part, like leaving him or him dying, or revenge upon his whole family or something. This is why a "good" book is often more frustrating than some "bad" ones to me.

Insert Ben Affleck smoking meme, thats how I feel. its easy to read so ill finish but I am not invested in the romance at all. I feel like (straight) romance is the genre where im most likely to run into duds. Even sticking to stuff with good reviews theres just no way to really know for sure whether I will care about the relationship, plus the odds are bad anyways since im a professional hater lol

It cut me off, ANYWAYS he returns with none of the groceries except extra fish they don't have space to store. does he die later? I hope so. I fear he will not though and I will have to rely on my highly murderous imagination. 🔪🔪🔪

Could not find this in stores so I am listening to audio. Why does the narrator.....why is he like this, that's all im going to say. I wish him luck in his future narrating children's books. Im....struggling. also, I've also had to listen to an explanation of a society im very not into where men apparently do not do grocery shopping, except this one time where man asks to do it solely to flirt with fish lady so he re

This book is top notch. And im saying that as a person who hates general fiction/lit books. Apparently there are good ones. Anyways, am reading this for an LGBT book club i found at library, so im already happy I signed up for it ❤️

Girl, I know you're only 14 but.... just get on falafel the faithful steed and ride off. Let's all save some time 😭

I thought this was going to be a slam dunk but I am honestly kind of appalled so far??? I'm going to keep reading but I expect this to be a 2 star. Truly bad. Why does Marco have a girlfriend, but no friends. Why does he send his gf to spy on a woman he's interested in. I know I won't be satisfied bc Marco isn't going to die and it's what he deserves. Yes, he is the male lead. Getting mad, maybe DNF. Ppl like this??

This already has an ideal cozy fantasy fairy tale feeling. Its delightful. Someone does have to beat Lennox's ass by the end though.