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christ it's so good to read a romance with some mystery and tension in it. i have come to fucking hate dual pov romance but if it's got to be dual, at least let it be like this, where you still don't know everything that's happening even though you're in both characters' heads, where there's some fucking STORY happening.

gonna finish this today, not least because van helsing's dialect is torturous to make sense of so i'm skimming most of it /o\

ok the time stuff has straightened out somewhat, i should've been paying better attention from the jump. can't WAIT to see where this is headed.

EEEEEEEEE preordering this was the best decision ever, as i now get early access to read it in serial format over the next couple months! (i may revisit that 'best thing ever' assessment once i'm waiting for the next chapters to drop lmao but that's future emily's problem.)

i can't tell if the dates are jumping around or not, is the sebastian stuff taking place a year apart from the hugh stuff, or am i losing the plot? either way i'm really enjoying it, sebastian is delightfully awful and hugh is a sweetie.

this is really good and so nerve wracking lmao. i hate scenes where someone is snooping through drawers before the secretary comes back!!

this narrator is a great middle ground between jon and alex voice-wise, more serious than alex but without jon's deep dolor. and jon's dad as jurgen is always a treat <3

i could listen to jonathan sims read the phone book.

holy fuck this is scary! man i was looking for something to grab me by the throat but be careful what you wish for i guess!!!

this feels like a really interesting spiritual partner to 'we have always lived in the castle'.

cw animal cruelty (forced captivity on a wild animal)

this is so funny and cute despite being about a literal goo monster that absorbs everything from human bones to rocks to give her body a human-like shape. her bone-dry narration is worthy of sam vimes.

"they shrieked, in what shesheshen assumed was another of the consensual aural horrors that humans called music" lmfaooo

WELL i had started out this month with a very ambitious list of things i was hoping to check off, but i've been dealing with some annoying health stuff that has made it so i'll be happy just to finish a normal month's worth of reading by the time halloween rolls around. alas!

really digging this so far. i actually really like that they're not doing a huge expository rundown for the reader of what magic is and does and how it works; it's fun just getting pieces here and there.

excuse me as i go through and change all my half-star-rated books for the past few years.....

this is the third time i'm reading this, and because i'm listening to it with my wife, i'm observing that the three timelines obscure the plot in a pretty major way until about the halfway mark. i'm happy to go with a book's flow if the vibes are good (see also : harrow the ninth) but for those who need a plot hook this may be a harder sell without some spoilers up front.

read the first couple chapters of this and have just stalled out. i'm interested in it but the library is about to put me in debtor's prison if i don't return it, so i think i have to put it on the "on hold" shelf (which i think i should rename the soft-DNF shelf?) and move on. :/

killer opening, and then a robert jordan epigraph? this is gonna be a ride.

diiiiiiiiiiiiiin you lovely disaster, ana is going to kill youuuuuuuu

holy SHIT uhhhh cw body horror, jesus CHRIST

"They learned his secrets in the Scholomance, amongst the mountains over Lake Hermanstadt, where the devil claims the tenth scholar as his due."

just kidding van helsing can never say anything in 5 words when 25 will do. UGH.

f i n a l l y van helsing and mina are talking, now some stuff could actually start HAPPENING.

i'm really enjoying this so far, it's very descriptive and interesting, though i do feel like it's missing something i can't quite put my finger on.

NOT LIKE THAT

oh will one of them please just do something already DDDDDDDD:

i'm in love with dogviolet's voice and the fact that she calls francis "francis-bug" and how she and jaqen h'ghar speak in the same third person present tense, lol