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All the nose boops 🥹

It's funny how different people pick up on different things in tarot: I feel I'm learning useful information that'll help with my own understanding of reading cards individually and in spreads, but also there are moments when I just say really? in response to something Cynova says.

Maybe because I know what to expect from the prose and storytelling, but I'm liking this so much better than I did in 2019.

Any female author who describes a woman's breasts as fruit should have her writing card revoked. In all seriousness, though, I'm liking this much more than when I tried reading it in 2021.

I could probably drop this without guilt, but I'm so close to the end of the year and don't want to DNF anything else. I feel like this'll be a solid three stars though.

Yes, I'm reading this for the tenth time and yes, I will be taking it to silent book club this weekend so I can convert everyone to join me in my obsession.

You mean I'm reading two books with demisexual men at the forefront? Loving the representation.

This started off slow and was hard to keep up with thanks to all the characters and government factions, but damn I love some good political machinations and true enemies-to-lovers vibes. "I hate your guts but also wanna flirt with you" at its finest.

Apparently I can suffer from FOMO, because here I am, reading the Canadian hockey yaoi.

Not the most gripping, but it's compulsively readable and does cool things with the idea of real-world horrors versus supernatural horrors.

God, I wish I had a physical copy on hand to quote from. The last chapter was where Purvis the author came through as opposed to her writing as the actual narrator, and it slapped.

Getting big season 1 Stranger Things vibes 🤘

I spoke too soon: now the number of typos and stray punctuation is egregious. Seriously, did anyone review this at page proof? My project-editor brain is SCREAMING.

For a trad-pub, this has an egregious number of errors in the first hundred pages alone. Who copyedited this??

At this point, I've switched entirely to the audiobook for the ease of listening, and that, combined with the shift from France to Scotland, has made for a more engaging story.

I know there's still another half to go, but I currently don't get the 3.13 rating.

This is more in line with that I wanted from Revelator, both in atmosphere and the scope of characters.

Love seeing Fergus but where. Is. Murtagh???

Let's hear it for a high fantasy where everything makes just enough sense so that I'm not absolutely baffled and bewildered 🙌

The story and themes are cool, but the writing and Bridgid's narration make it difficult for me to stay engaged.

Me? Reading a romantasy?? And enjoying it???

Ten years since I first read this, I've decided to watch the Starz adaptation all the way through after stopping with season 3. So far, my main thought is that the television series is much more compelling.