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I enjoyed this book :3
Largest critiques: the instalove, pacing/timeframe of events, not being able to get a read on Ashley’s age, run on sentences & comma splices (esp in dialogue), incongruous villain monologue
Enjoyed: depiction of Savannah, world building (esp the family history), audiobook narration, how the magic was portrayed, overall story, could sit well as a standalone but has open ends for sequels

Did this woman who has never been on the internet before seriously just say “unalive”?? Please can we just not with the TikTok slang in books 😭😭 Especially if it makes no sense for the character to speak like that 💀

“softening his bones”???? babe we are not making soup and I have so many logistical questions now

I do believe I know what the “big reveal” is going to be

You’re telling me this woman runs around town with DRIED MEAT in her pockets? Not jerky, not cured, just dried meat. Not in a plastic bag, no wrapper, she just straight up has meat pockets?? Ew.

Also why hasn’t this been brought up before? If she’s going around with dried meat in her pockets, shouldn’t every cat she encounters constantly be trying to get at that stash?? They should go crazy smelling her 🤨

So why is a spell to end the world feasible but a spell to transport the shop between cities, rather than within the city, considered impossible?

“I remember—“ I don’t.
There were so many missed opportunities to foreshadow future plot developments and flesh out the world. Things like putting a pen in her pocket if having a pen in her pocket becomes relevant later or listing artefacts’ powers as she categorises them if they are significant; only find out about actions/events/feelings retrospectively robs the narrative of much tension and feels flat.

Is this fanfiction that escaped containment? I’m not mad about it if it is Howl’s Moving Castle AU, but I do sort of wonder how much of the cosy vibes are original to the text and how much is my brain filling in the gaps with content from a movie that I love and have watched easily over a hundred times. Would love to hear the thoughts of a reader who hasn’t watched HMC for comparison

I cannot overstate how much I LOVE Anja’s narrative voice. Pretty much just an aged-up Maomao 💖

i’m sorry WHAT

Lottie is seriously pissing me off

“I want to share the good news with Celeste but I don’t, I respecting her decision to go silent on me.”

Nah, fck that. If you’re in a relationship (or something you want to turn into a relationship), ghosting your partner is absolutely never acceptable. Have some basic courtesy for your partner. Be an adult and use your words.

Gemma deserves better. Justice for Gemma!!!

"If it takes you two months to move on from someone you were engaged to... wow. It must have taken you a week to get over me." — this from Celeste after she dropped off the face of the Earth and completely ghosted Gemma, while KNOWING Gemma spent MONTHS messaging her trying to find out what happened, why she left, if she was okay, if she was ever going to come back.

Not really a fan of Celeste, tbh.

Am I to believe that Rae hasn’t read the first book in a series, but read books two and three? Am I understanding this right? I know I literally just started but what the hell kind of decision making is that??

Seriously hoping that’s not indicative of the FMC’s decisions in the rest of the book 🙏🏽🤞🏽

ARE YOU FCKING KIDDING ME

WHY WOULD SHE DO THAT

This book is such a fever dream wtf

I was expecting psychological horror but not actual blood and guts horror wow wow wow

Do not read before bed if susceptible to weird dreams and nightmares

God I hate it when characters go after villains without telling anyone of their intentions or the secret they’ve uncovered -__-

Like, what’s your plan here? You’re gonna jeopardise your own life and risk everyone else’s livelihood because you couldn’t be bothered to tell a single other person what you’re going to do and what you know. I enjoy this world but god does that authorial decision pmo

That’s it. Vigga’s my fave