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Rereading the prologue as the book progresses and connecting the dots feels incredibly gratifying, but 😮‍💨

Oh if I could talk about this book all day

Offended and flabbergasted

Man, I'm realllyy liking Thyon :/

It's ok that I don't understand the prologue, right?
Off the bat, inSANE writing!
"and that told you everything you needed to know about strange Lazlo Strange: head in the clouds, world of his own, fairy tales and fancy."
Oh, I'm about to really enjoy this, aren't I

Shut the fUCK up

I’m so stressed, how am I supposed to get through the second half 😮‍💨

Doing my best to slow down (to savour the series, but also waiting for my physical copy) but it’s impossible 😮‍💨

Patting myself for switchng to audio bc I kept putting this off (I'm scaRED ok). The narrator's good except for his Elend voice :/
"After a year in his pit of a prison, he felt as if he had frogotten how to use a body. What it was like to touch the world with rigid digits, [..] What it was like to..
To see. He opened his eyes and gasped, drawing first breath into remade, full sized lungs." How brilliant is this

I have to fight myself to put this down. It's like crack cocaine to my brain

All I can say is prepare to get sick of me. SICK

Kinda unimpressed so far :/

Had me awake at 2am, on a WORK week 😮‍💨
I can’t yet tell if the ending will break my heart (I mean, it’s already gutted me), but I 👌 stop

The way Shirley writes is so delicious, I wanna sink my teeth into it

Clutching my pearls and falling to my knees. WHAT

PleASE don’t make me DNF this late

I already can tell this is gonna break my heart

Ok, so, THIS is what I needed.

I cyclically have this realisation that I’m sabotaging my own reading experience, chasing a feeling I’m craving, but in the wrong place, assuming I’m too exhausted from life to engage with books that are higher on my tbr. And I kinda lost sight of the reader that I am.
Sure, I wish it worked to find books by tropes, but I missed reading stories. If that makes sense.

Unfortunately, I AM bound to be disappointed when this is advertised as a “dark fantasy romance”, and yet it’s very YA and not at all Dark.
So far, Caraval for sure had me both stressed and kicking my feet way more

Hope this delivers some spooky gothic romance vibes 🤞😮‍💨
Though, it did already commit a minor sin (if you spend 3 chapters explaining the fmc’s rules in life, you gotta do better to explain why she chose to break them this ONE time, and no, it cannot be “for the plot”. That’s actually the worst answer)
Anyway, place your bets, will this be a better or a worse Caraval.

I missED Marsters' narration, OK? 😮‍💨

Oooh that twist with Daniel!
Appreciating the creepy, horror-ish vibes in this one

Been slowly reading this one on my phone. Hoping that updating my progress here would motivate me to keep going 🤞

I've been saving this book bc I knew it'd get to me sO fast

Chap 13: where there is sorrow
A death so unexpected and heartbreaking I had to google it. Bro how am I suppposed to move on from it

I feel like I just lived through a rite of passage

Chapter 6:
“I’m glad you want to get to know me. But I just don’t have the energy to get to know you. Sorry”
Big Fat Mood

I finally bit the bullet and picked up this 700-page giant book, knowing it's a 50-50 risk, all because I was lured in by the idea of reading something that feels like Everything is Romantic (Alina Kay's version).

So, WHY am I still reading when batshit things are happening and nOT being adressed? And some gory murders might be attributed to the love interest? I think?
The answer is: I'm hooked, I fear.