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OMG... all hot men after speshulsnowflake Maggie. I can't believe IA just went there. PUKE.

I'm at 25% and got from curious, but rather bored to mildly interested, yet hardly the state of mind I was hoping for.
Also, confused by the gaggle of hot men-geese, all of them dark haired, obvs. Getting old and cranky: differentiating bw shades of dark is tiring. Couldn't at least one of those dudes had cerulean blue hair or purple with silver streaks or something, just to make them stand out a bit from the crowd?

OMG, you just gotta love Freddie ... and his Dad. 🥰

OMG, JKB, just stop writing about your bloody pyjamas, who cares, honestly??!!

RESPECT for Julie K. Brown's work, but wow does she have a big chip (or several) on her shoulder about not getting all the kudos she thinks she deserves!
Also what an odd mixture of good investigating journalism and bad self-advertisement.

A wish-fulfillment comic book without pictures. MEH.

Well, I don't think I have ever experienced the gut-punch feeling of hating a book by page 3, yet here I am. A very curiois feeling.
And things haven't changed by page 80 either. This is embarrassingly bad and juvenile!

A rererereread, because I need some Sam Vimes and Vetinari in my life, plus I wanted to try the new audiobook version narrated by John Culshaw.

Fun fact: the neon signs on the book cover are actually in Hungarian!

"Művèsz Szìnhàz" (Artist Theatre) was a real establishment bw 1932-38 in Budapest.

"Déligyümölcs" (tropical fruit) is the Hungarian title of André Birabeau’s play Pamplemousse which premiered in the Művèsz Theatre in 1938 and the neon names below belong to existing HU actors of the time.

Oh, these must be some of the nicest & funniest email exchanges between a romantic couple..... or is it just narrator Farah Kidwai being very good? 🤔

Either the summary chapter on the War of the Roses is one of the best and clearest I've read so far or I've become a "sage" on the topic unawares and now recognize and remember everything Anthony Cheetham told us about. 🤭

Finding this a great little read/listen so far.
Plus I didn't know that R3 was born on 2 Oct, so happy birthday to him.

At the point in the story where Dan Jones heroically takes on the battle of pronouncing the names of the Magyar tribes leaders (attacking Augsburg) and fails 🤭, though not too badly and absolutely forgiveably. 😅

Top on the endless fighting with a heavy dose of tragic melodrama and add some mindless lovey-dovey stuff.... bleurgh, what is this?!

Could we have just a teensy bit less of these neverending heroic fights? That are not 3 chapters long? Only 2, maybe?

Yes, Hugh is sick as f*ck!
I just want to throw up discreetly every time he comes on stage/page.

Yes, indeed THIS is Anthony Trollope (Framely Parsonage) with dragons, although one of the characters remind me of Obadiah Slope from Barchester Towers. 😊

Dear Georgette Heyer,
If you expect us to believe Barbara is femme fatale, then why did you make her behave like an immature 12-year-old.
...
- I kept telling you I am bad.
- Indeed, you kept behaving like you are bad, so now I'm taking you at you word. You ARE bad.
- How dare you treat me like I'm bad!?

Make up your bloody mind, Bab, you can't have it both ways.

Barbara is such a fake and a total bore. 🥱

I'm here for Waterloo, the rest is fair game. :)

Oh dear, I have arrived at the brink of almost hating this book and it makes me feel so sad and so mad. 😥