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Exceeding everyone's expectations but especially my own, made it all the way to chapter 15 before something made me cry

Casey McQuiston is ruining my life right now as I type this, send help, I'm in pain and only a happy ending to this book will save me

First pick for the "Unhinged Books for Unhinged Babes" book club.

""Nah. Come on. I don't think this election is gonna hinge on an email server."

"You sure about that?"

"Listen, maybe if Richards had more time to sow those seeds of doubt, but I don't think we're there. Maybe if it were 2016.""

I. Am. Screaming.

Okay FINE I'll read it

Alexa, play 'Jesus From Texas' by Semler.
*cries*

If I had a nickel for every time I enjoyed a piece of media this week where (spoilers ahead) a beloved main character was actually a Phoenix, I'd only have two nickels. But its weird that it happened twice, right?

"The English word most warranting removal from our language is UNBEARABLE;

all I see is people keeping on."

"December 31, 1899

She has ushered in the change of years so many ways...She has kissed strangers, and sung of friends she'll never meet. Gone out with bangs and with whispers. But tonight she is content to sit, and watch the world go white beyond the window, every line and every curve erased by snow."

What a lovely, fitting chapter to read this New Year's Eve.

Ouch!!!

Let it be known that I got all this way before I cried for the first time

Reading my 2nd most anticipated book of the year here we GOOOOOO

I hope I dont get ~emotionally wrecked~

Just kidding yes I do

I'm not even halfway through the first chapter and this book already feels Too Personal

Rory Powers quit reading(/writing) my mind

So beautiful :)
It hurts :(

The End of the World as We Know it - 3
Three Witches - 2.5
The Inferno and the Butterfly - 3.5
Healing Rosa - 4.5

Willows - 4
The Girl With the Blue Lantern - 5
The Secret Life of a Teenage Boy - 4
Walking After Midnight - 4.5

Molly's Lips - 3.5/5
New Year - 3.5/5
The Coven - 3/5
Every Shade of Red - 5/5

Roja - 5/5
The Sweet Trade - 4/5
And They Don't Kiss at the End - 4/5
Burnt Umber - 3/5
The Dresser & the Chambermaid - 5/5!!

I didn't realize how bizarre it would feel to read a book set essentially down the road from me. Like, the exact grocery store I shop at was just described in great detail to me?

I have been on hold for this book at the library for so long I almost broke my 2018 No-Buying-New-Books rule D: but it is here now and I have Such! high! hopes! I really might die if it doesn't live up to the first two books of the series

This may not be the best book I've ever read, but it has to be the prettiest

SO?? PRETTY??
How can a book be this pretty??

I'm gonna marry the moon

The imagery is so vibrant, so rich, so crispy.
I want to pour this book into my tea and drink it every morning.

- Any book that starts with an Andrea Gibson quote is going to be good.
- Since when do I go for Magical Realism so much?
- This book is like reading a painting
- Some of these paragraphs are so sickly sweet and tender it feels like I'm intruding by reading them

Holy Instant Romantic Interest, Batman! We're talking /minutes/ within meeting, our protag is in love. So that's annoying. The premise of this novel is really neat to me though, so it might get a free pass. I just figured there would be more of a lead in. It also seems a little young, but I'll probably get over that.

I may havr just gotten attached to Billie's character but I did not appreciate the sudden perspective shift? Like if it was going to switch perspectives, i wish that had just been the premise of the novel, with each character getting a part. Maybe I'll warm up to it in a chapter or two.

I just needed something sweet and lovey to break up all the sad books I've been reading and this book is perfect! So many feelings only a quarter of the way through.

Nevermind, I've figured out that it's not that I dont care about any of these characters, I just find the Arthur Leander/Jeevan/Miranda storylines very uninteresting. I'm hoping they'll redeem themselves by eventually tying into the post-apocalyptic storyline in an interesting way.