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Thought I should probably get around to this at some point and there’s no time like the present! (Side note - why are they all basically pre-teens?!)

“blink, and the years fall away like leaves.
“adeline is sixteen now, and everyone speaks of her as if she is a summer bloom, something to be plucked, and propped within a vase, intended only to flower and then rot. like isabelle, who dreams of family instead of freedom, and seems content to
briefly blossom and then wither.”

“she doesn’t want to see the life that stands there, waiting. static as a drawing. solid as a tomb.
“instead, she runs.”

this entire book is a rollercoaster

this book is a revelation. i didn't know i needed it before it came knocking.

Robbie’s a disaster. I can’t watch

“Briony knew her only reasonable choice then would be to run away, to live under hedges, eat berries and speak to no one”

exams are over, back home, it’s time to possibly read something. fingers crossed!! this seems like an amazing book, and it’s an understatement to say that i am excited.

I’m going to spend a blissful couple of days rereading this before I buckle down and start studying for end of year exams. My chosen last meal, if you will.

i spent far far far too much on this book but it was so worth it i'm dying this book is stunning the illustrations are 617375/10 I'm in love with the book the writing the cover the illustrations i want to cry it's so stunning and it's on my bookshelf.

ooft.

i'm not that obsessed with this book and the tv show and these illustrations.

...I was hoping for more gay.... apparently I got the wrong edition??

Oh no, I've slipped and fallen in love with this book. What a tragedy...

New year, new book, more tests...

Just in case y’all were wondering, this book is my life and I would die for Lila Bard

Wow?? I’m dying?? So amazing?? So little read?? So much school??

Soooo I ship Radu and Cyprian?? Idk what I’m doing with my life???

I love Lada’s stabbiness and I also love Radu’s polite political fuck you’s but honestly I would kill for even a second of Nazira’s attention. The only thing that I agree with Mehmed is that I too am desperately in love with Ladislav and would like her to kill me. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk about how I’m extremely gay for all the women in this book

I’ve got something like four hours to read up to the end of Vardaesia so I don’t get spoiled out of my mind at the spoiler event tonight.

Reread for the 21st of February, where I’m meeting this amazing woman!! I have honestly forgotten how brilliant and nuanced her books are 😍😍

Welp this continues to be brilliant thank you Leigh Bardugo, you remain my queen

Honestly I am trying to read so many books right now, but it’s back to school and I have so much homework, so I’m just kinda putting them all on currently reading so I don’t forget about them...

My life is a disaster rn

I never breathe during that one scene. I love Kaz so much 😍

i can’t breathe this is so amazing cause of death: plot twists

Woahhhh. A love triangle with no chemistry already! They’ve literally known each other for about 24 hours and I’m pretty sure that anything there is just sexual.
I can’t even care about how there’s a chance it’s gay.