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Knightley’s writing is super charming (I love parentheticals) but this is so flat and underdeveloped, and that’s incompatible with a slow burn imo.

this book is the equivalent of being stuck behind a car going five miles under the speed limit in the left lane. idk if i have another 250 pages in me.

i definitely should have done a reread of book one instead of skimming my notes oh well

extremely generic and plotless but I do want to see these three horny mfers bone down tbh. she got me somehow.

penis guillotine in the author’s note is a real tone-setter

just checked my kindle percentage and saw my life flash before my eyes. what do you mean we still have 300 more pages?? there’s simply not enough plot here for that

I guess the first few chapters were a fakeout because the more I read the more overwritten and repetitive the writing gets and the character motivations…idk if I am strong enough

love the atmosphere and I am a sucker for an MMC with an expressive tail but the repetitive writing is killing me

who goes into the "everything living here wants to kill you" rainforest and says sign me up for repeat excursions? better question: who researches this for their book and then ALSO decides to go?? riveting stuff though

I feel like I will be accused of being dead inside (true) and hating silliness and fun (false, I love whimsy) but I don’t like the cheeky AO3 tags in the blurb. Ace/Penguin put out that official marketing material with Dramione on it and now this? Come on.

This is like the fourth millenial ennui book I’ve accidentally picked up this year

such interesting ideas and beautiful prose…wish anything was explored or i connected with these characters even a little rip

We’re gonna go 500 pages and the characterization is gonna be this flat the whole time huh. It’s just a bunch of names on a page

Some authors should really stick to contemporary because what is this worldbuilding. Absolute word salad nonsense

everytime this book talks about “the people of Evermore” I just picture everyone living in the eternally troubled fantasy LARP theme park in Utah

I never think I have any POV preferences and then the rare third person present tense always makes me eat my words 🤨

all these pulled to publish Dramione fics are so shameless with their cover art lmao

I am… unsure if this book’s passive marketing is setting it up for the right audience when the first 50% is Selena and her cute dog settling into this quaint little town and gardening with her neighbor lol

love interest is introduced wearing an unzipped leather hoodie, sheepskin thong, and Tabi shoes. still no explanation yet.

see, I don’t have to worry about developing a weird spooky relationship with a sentient evil plant because I can’t keep a normal one alive in the first place

when did name dropping 101-level genre references become enough to call something an homage? ready player one has a lot to answer for

big year for weird girl eco horror and people who watched little shop of horrors at a formative age (me)

someone needs their simile privileges revoked and i say this as someone who enjoys similes

if it takes me weeks to get through chapter one it generally does not bode well for an ARC

I take back what I said before that wasn’t me that was my grumpy twin with terrible taste

shockingly bland for a Holly Black novel so far. any other writer and I would be DNFing.

on the one hand I love books about intimate friendships but on the other hand I’m like what if they all kissed though 🧐

If you’re allergic to second hand embarrassment this book will be hazardous to your health I fear

this book really goes Places