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I have finished my reading challenge. What to do now - add more books? Or leave it as it is. But I know i will read at least 3 more books this year. So what’s now? 🥲🫣

So, this is how the book starts: this book is dedicated to all the girls who like morally gray functional men and who screamed out loud the first time they read “who did this toy you?”
This one is for you.
So far I like it but not yet any hint for a morally gray man standing up for her but rather her suffering a lot in pain because of course she is powerless (I hope yet).
But we were introduced to a bad boy😌

Starting a new ongoing (not finished) series. Good for me 😆

I still can’t shake the feeling that this book gives me A Little Life vibes, though it’s definitely not the same. But unlike A Little Life, it hasn’t completely broken my heart - and I’m already halfway through. So far, I’m really enjoying it. It’s about a strong teenage friendship shaped by very difficult lives. It’s a “hard” read for me, but some parts do seem to resonate with me, in some way.

Yees, this book is giving! Tell me more 🤩 always up for a good dark dystopian! a forced wed between enemies is a good bonus 🙃 I feel a rebellion igniting 🙂‍↔️

Yees, this book is giving! Tell me more 🤩 always up for a good dark dystopian! a forced wed between enemies is a good bonus 🙃 I feel a rebellion igniting 🙂‍↔️

Reading about death and descriptions of death thoughts in a plane when you have a fear of flying is an interesting type of experience 😁but so far it is a great book. A bit on a sad side but I love those types of book that make you think, show compassion and simply a life.

I’m sad and angry. So much violence against women. So many injustices.

It was a hard start. Mainly the way of writing. Seems like too over complicated. But the story is getting better. As well as a fantasy world, studying the map for 2 days 😁

“Paedyn, I love you. Like nothing else before, I love you. And I’ve been waiting to tell you since I realized your eyes are my favorite color and your freckles the only constellation worth looking at. I could lie - say that you’ve stolen my every thought and heartbeat like the thief you are, but all of me was already yours. Paedyn, you are my inevitable.”
Sobbing 😭

“I want you to be my ruin, remember?”
Sorry but wtf 😭💔

“But my heart is wherever you are. It is in the palm of your hands, the pad of your thumb. So if you leave, I will follow. If you stay, I will bow. Because there has never been a moment when you did not own the only piece of me that mattered - loving you made me matter. And I ache to be full again.”
🔪 this devotion 😭

“Now, please entertain me, darling. What am I to do if not count your freckles?”
Omg this book is a heart breaking fantasy

«I’m breathless at the sight of her, doomed by the hope of having her. It’s a beautiful ruin, a devastating devotion. This girl holds my heart in her hands, could crush it between her fingers and still have my thanking her for the touch.
And I hold her shoes.”
😭🔪

Ok I’m back to my Kai and Paedyn ☺️

A scene of Cassian paying a debt to Nesta lives rent free in my head 🙃

I have hit my monthly Spotify audiobooks limit 😆 Now I have to wait until June, and I was so close to finishing!

Do you know there is a facility for Renaissance and Magical Literature/magic studies in Scotland and England? You are welcome 🙃

I have listened to almost half a book. I hope Spotify lets me continue listening to it, as apparently there is a monthly limit 😁 I am so invested lol if this book will make me subscribe for another extra subscription in Spotify - I will laugh at my self, how pathetic! but also needed 💀

Uff first kiss of Nesta and Cassian. I somehow thought it will never happen and at least not that “early” in the book.
But man, it was hot and also awkward at the end. The way she roasted him. I love that girl 😁 somehow right now I feel even more appeal towards their couple than any other 👀💀

Listening this one as an audiobook and oh boy. Italian mafia boss or not a boss and maybe not a mafia. I don’t know yet but he is steamy.
Also a concept of an arranged marriages annoys me. Like girl. You don’t have to. But I understand we need this for a juicy plot 😁 and I’m here for it 💀🥲

It is for me not an easy read. Different reasons: lots of historical explanations and events, painful stories of women who were accused in witchcraft. Injustice.
It is interesting to find out where it leads. But it is going to be a slow read 🤓