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Poor Anne has to keep spending time with all these people talking about the man she loved possibly marrying someone else.
I don’t think he’s really forgiven her in any sense, he’s nice to her but that’s just being a gentleman. Wentworth also has the added pressure of being a navy man and so having to showcase his polite mannerisms.
Louisa and him honestly seem good together although she’s not as smart

The entire chapter leading up to their meeting only for it to be anticlimactic to some effect was so gripping.
I am so freaking exciting to see these two fall in love again and to see Anne see the faults of her past actions which she does regret, but I wonder how she’ll charm him again?
Honestly I think Wentworth wants to marry quickly purely so he can eliminate Anne as an option from his mind

I can definitely get the haughtiness from both Sir Walter and his daughters especially through Mary. I think that Anne is supposed to be less stuck up because she’s the female lead and also because she’s had that past experience with Mr.Wentworth and is still determined that all her elders were wrong in advising her against him.

I missed Jane Austen’s writing, the intrigue, the gossip, caring about these people’s lives that I had no control over.
The heir of the Elliot estate really should be ashamed of himself like not letting anyone know of his plans to marry another woman?! Elizabeth though, I feel, should learn to put her foot down and chart her own path away from her father

I can’t express how happy it makes me to see names and places like my own in a history book. I’ve literally never seen that before.

Crazy how Heathcliff fully just dipped after he and Catherine get a little separated and then when he just shows up three years later (after doing who knows what and trying to do who’s knows what back at Wuthering Heights) and Catherine just accepts him as if they’d never fought
I mean Nelly doesn’t seem to be a big fan of her but her intentions towards Heathcliff are obvious even in front of her husband

This book just got way more philosophical once the main three went into the Underworld like the souls of the dead aren’t scary just sad? Wow
But on the flip side, I love how unsure Charon and Cerberus, and Hades are because administrative work is reasonably difficult.
I expected Hades wasn’t behind all of this but since Zeus and Hades’ weapons are missing, how could they not guess who took them?

Cathy doing a quick turnaround after spending time with the Lintons makes sense to me for some reason. Like there was only a certain amount of time before she, already described as incredibly vain and princess-like, recognized that she could be treated better if she assumed the position as a haughty lady of the house. However it’s still very sad to see Heathcliff’s reaction to losing his father and only friend

“Why?”
“Because you’re my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more questions?” I like that Annabeth is making her own choices now, not based purely on what her mother or father or Chiron or anyone else wants, she deserves that independence
Also I have been loving the chapter titles cause they just get weirder and weirder but they’re absolutely factual to what happens

Nellie Dean coming in clutch with an actual story time behind this crazy family. I need a whole family tree to reference while I’m reading this book to understand who grew up with whom and how they’re all related.
Heathcliff is totally an illegitimate child of the late Earnshaw, otherwise he would not have raised him, I’m certain. Though it’s very interesting that H happens to be the favorite

Craziest stuff happens in this book I mean I feel like I haven’t had to truly work my imagination like this for a while and it me kind of refreshing that the author doesn’t get bogged down in the details too much.
Is it not just a little bit concerning that Ares, the actually god of destructive bloody messy war, deems the United States the “Best place since Sparta”?

Mr Lockwood is honestly such an annoying tenant no wonder the residents of Wuthering Heights are already fed up with him. He also compares Heathcliff briefly to one of Heathcliff’s dogs from the onset so I’m not inclined to love this guy.
It seems like Catherine was the one person who brought a more interesting and entertaining nature to this now very dull environment and she’s missed by all

This book is truly a rollercoaster cause one moment they’re talking to a poodle and Grover’s insisting that Percy show the poodle respect. And then the next Annabeth’s wishing her father accepted her and Grover’s musing about how the sky is polluted and how he’s going to find Pan and fix the climate crisis, and then Percy’s wondering if he died would that save everyone… like they’re 12 years old??

Oof I LOVE picking up on all the details to see which mythological characters these three come across
Aunty Em
veiled eyes
Startled looking statues
“Middle-Eastern” skin tone or olive skin
Two mortal sisters
Weary of Annabeth’s grey eyes
“Em” = M

“Relax. Keep a clear head. And remember, you may be about to prevent the biggest war in human history.”
This whole camp seems like a terrible idea. I get that it’s a place to keep half-bloods safe, but TRAINING THEM TO FIGHT MONSTERS?! At like nine years old?
Did they just sent three middle schoolers to travel across the country by land to the Underworld solve a godly dispute??🤦‍♀️

I feel like Percy would be in less of an identity crisis is people stopped dropping hints about him being “important” and then refusing to give him more info, ragebaiting at an Olympic level

RIP Sally Jackson, I only knew you for 20 pages I’m genuinely saddened that she’s gone

Also why is everyone so incredibly unserious? This 12-year old’s mom just DIED! Why are you suddenly quizzing him like this?!

Alice has imagined Henry to be such a perfect person, untouchable basically, that when he shows the slightest slips of emotion or reaction, she actually treasures how he looks so much and so affectionately it’s really beautiful

Her parents’ reaction to her getting in trouble was TERRIFYING, maybe they also don’t realize that she’s just a child too which is why she treats herself horribly

“I notice.”
“But I can’t wrap my head around it. What does he mean, he notices? And how could he be aware of something about me that I wasn’t even aware of myself? It just doesn’t make sense, because no one notices—“ AWWWW

Also Alice is making some VALID points about power and perception especially after what happened to her family in the States, she just doesn’t want them to feel helpless

Some of the most romantic lines I’ve ever read and it’s from a freaking YA fantasy novel:

“She’d laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have.”

“I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath.”

The way these men YEARN 🫢

I like Chanel, I feel like her and Alice started off on bad terms but I’m glad Alice is opening up to her more now and even including her in the whole Beijing Ghost thing
Also CRAZY that Henry literally stayed up three nights in a row to make this app for Alice, think girl this can’t just be for the money 🤦‍♀️
Also getting the feeling that Alice is just very awkward and Henry just isn’t

I LOVEEEE how during this section the Black Protocol bells chime exactly when each character has fallen into the worst possible circumstances like damn that’s good writing
BUT ANYWAY WE GOT THE GAY TALK BETWEEN JESPER AND WYLAN FINALLY:
Wylan: “Just girls?”
Jesper: “No. Not just girls.”
“His eyes met Wylan’s. They were out of time.” NOOO STOP NO DON’T TOUCH THEM 😭😭

Kaz, I hate to break it to you, but lying to everyone who’s risking their lives to go on this insane mission for you is just not the strat
I LOVE Inej’s character growth here tho, she finally decides to do smth for herself and not because she’s a pawn to someone else
Although that means…
“Scheming face… She was going to miss that look.” 😭
“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”

“Stop being dense. You’re cuter when you’re smart.” Jesper just discovered how much better it feels to make Wylan blush and he’s just going with it now, I freaking love it
Also he’s a GRISHA WHAT??
GUYS KAZ’S BACKSTORY IS ACTUALLY HELL BECAUSE WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE CLUNG TO HIS DEAD BROTHER’S BODY AS HE SWAM MILES BACK TO THE HARBOR BEFORE HE DIED AMONG A SEA OF CORPSES?! WHO CAME UP WITH THISSS

Whoa I did not expect Nina and Matthias’s story to circle back to the present like that cause he’s right, they both do have a motive to kill the scientist and now I’m really wondering if Nina would truly betray the Dregs or if she’s leading Matthias on again…
And even if they tried to, how would they outsmart Kaz? Surely he’s at least a little suspicious of them due to their past with each other

“The Prince had stood before me moments ago. I had held his hand. He had whispered my name. And now he was gone.”
No. No way he’s gone. I know the omen and stuff like that but… but this entire story is a story about resistance so I refuse to believe he’s truly gone.
Also I don’t think Nameless Flower knows that Daehyun also lost because of the king and that he never condoned his actions