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Also where is the Yelena that I loved from Poison Study? The one who struggled and learned and grew so much? Why is everything coming to her so easily? Like... she has no struggles at all, she's just that OP? She is basically just a master magician who can do anything without training? Uhhh... okay then...

Okay usually I am all in agreeance with Yelena and her biggest cheerleader but BROTHER going straight to Ferde so that you can "save" Opal... when they just said that the last kill has to be a WILLING sacrifice... you do see what's happening, right?

She lets her emotions blind her logic all too often. COME ON YELENA THINK BEFORE YOU ACT GEEZALOO

I'm invested, but I am missing the Valek/Yelena dynamic deeply. :( and I better not smell a love triangle on the horizon. *Gag*

"Did she still think he was stunning?" STOOOPPPPPP

I am obsessed with Valek's love for and admiration of Yelena. I am dying over this book. Him admiring the way she broke into his office, tried to find the antidote, and then hid behind the table? "Fun." GAHHH I can't!!! They are too precious!!!

"Great. Now she thought he killed babies."

I love being privvy to the inner workings of Valek's mind. Hehehe. Batting eyelashes, witty comments... what a treat.

Also, HIM FALLING FOR YELENA IS SO PRECIOUS--almost falling out of the tree because she SMILED at him? Ugh. Love this man.

I just lost all respect for Theo because he isn't leaving Kathy. Oh my days.

“My love has been yours since the fire festival.” OMGGGGGGGGGGGG

"What have I earned from you, Valek? Loyalty? Respect? Trust?"
"You have my attention. But give me what I want, and you can have everything."

HOT DAYUM

uhhh where can I sign up to have my own room at the Hotel Deucalion

I'm not sure if this is the right page (reading on Kindle) but HOLY MOLY HOT DOG HARRY LEARN OCCLUMENCY ALREADY I CAN'T STAND ALL THE TIMES WE ARE RETURNING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF MYSTERIES LIKE WHY AREN'T YOU HEEDING THE MYRIAD OF WARNINGS FROM THE SMART ADULTS AROUND YOU ASJDKFNAOWEROi but I guess it's better than him turning on Ron and Hermoine constantly in outbursts of rage....................

Aaahhh. Our protagonist... the secondhand embarrassment is so real... someone put us out of our misery lol

Inara... my goodness gravy, she is such an unrelatable, unbelievable, and unreliable narrator. I am still holding on for a twist!!! Please let there be a twist!!! Also loved it when Victor's partner put her in her place. That was extremely satisfying. :3

Still not entirely convinced that this book is for me… pretty much forcing myself to keep going…

Gaaahhhh this narrator… and some of the adjectives… must… keep… going…

This is better than the first time I read it… interesting how our perspectives shift over time.

A bit slower of a read than Nothing to Envy, but still good so far.

A slow descent into madness… I feel it coming on… when will the pin drop? When will she succumb fully to the darkness that has crept around her so imperceptibly, so stealthily, and yet so completely?

Interesting plot line so far, but man, I am SO SICK OF ALL THE UNNECESSARY DESCRIPTIONS. Like why does Hilderbrand go so in-depth about food, of all things!? Not just food, but it’s as if everything in her book that could use an adjective or two just ends up with fifteen instead. Like, I get it. I get it. My momentum with this book is showing down, for sure…

Re-reading for the first time in a few years. I started it today and could not put it down—I’m finally forcing myself to stop and get some sleep haha. I’m instantly sucked in and I just want to be right by Lou and Will’s side...

Dang... I am completely and utterly head-over-heels for not only this book, but for Morrie. I want to mull on his words until they become a part of me. I want to see the world the way he sees it. I want to live as if I were dying.

“‘He has to face far worse things than any sight or act I could come across; he can bear it—and so can I.’
“Truly the war has made masochists of us all” (154).

MY HEART. Oh my gosh, Brittain is brilliant: “‘I can scarcely bear to think of him ... and yet I cannot bear to think of anything else’” (133). She is so honest not only with the reader but with herself. I admire her deeply.