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Alastir is 100% her blood-dad, right?

Ummmm…..
did the author think through the extremely racist implications of having a forced-servant-companion with the FMC who is described as having “rich brown skin” whose name is fucken TAWNY LYON?!?!

TAWNY LYON ARE YOU KIDDING

As soon as I read the name I was like “she better not be Black, but I bet she is” and LO AND BEHOLD.

How come some of the shapeshifters / ones who flip between forms manage to keep clothing in shifting but Lysandra doesn’t? Like the spider chick yeah bc she was a spider she didn’t have clothing but Dorian can keep his??? It’s annoying me just let her not be naked all the time?

My phone is licherally burning my hands as I try to read bc it’s still 30C at 8pm (and probably more like 35C still in my room) and also my phone and charger are both fucked but !!! I will preserve.

LETSSSS GOOOOO

Not even 10% in and I’ve already lost count of how many times the FMC has used the word “cool” to describe someone and I might scream

Is there a single person in this book who isn’t a disaster bisexual?

Honestly barely anything has happened and nothing that interesting but I’m invested in this disaster bis too much this is my one weakness

Of course my dad actually didn’t believe in his own mortality and dropped dead but you know at least I got some good times out of it and I’m glad I didn’t go the “fuck off and literally die” but goddamn was I tempted and I love Luc so much

Of course my dad actually didn’t believe in his own mortality and dropped dead but you know at least I got some good times out of it and I’m glad I didn’t go the “fuck off and literally die” but goddamn was I tempted and I love Luc so much

Ok reading this again (fourth time) and i either deliberately didn’t connect the dots or didn’t have the brain power to talk about connecting the dots but reading it again three years later after going through my own “dad deserts mum and child and comes back into life of child bc of health shit” and like … luc is so valid for his response.

I forgot how dumb the exchange “I like Homer” “I *love* Homer” is lmao

Also coming back to this 8 years after I first read it and listening to Donna Tartt’s intonations is so interesting bc Richard is so much more obviously such an unreliable narrator and it’s making me question so much. I so love rereading but I wasn’t in the right mood last time I tried.

I don’t normally do audiobooks bc I don’t like being read to, but I wanted something for a long drive which wasn’t music bc my family are listening to the radio, and none of the podcasts and I were vibing. I figured I’d probably only be able to do a text I know decently well anyway, and I knew if Donna Tartt herself was reading it it’d be good. And it is so far!

The alliteration in this is divine

We’re a chapter in and she’s already relatable… ADHD EVE BROWN?!

CAN SOMEONE PLS GET PARIS A THERAPIST SND SOME MEDICATION AND PPL AROUND HIM WHO ACTUALLY SUPPORT HIM IN BENEFITIAL WAYS

Also I was reading reviews and ppl were saying that they found it dumb when he was spiralling about secretly being racist… I’ve literally spiralled at work while overthinking about whether showing someone too much/ too little attention means they’ll think I’m racist/ I am actually racist. Anxiety is a fucking bitch and imo Hall represents it almost painfully well.

Part of me wants to keep churning through this book Bc Paris is so intensely anxious but also sweet that I want him to get better and happier and also I already adore Tariq

Part of my knows that reading this book could be really bad for my mental health if I don’t take it slow bc Paris is *so intensely anxious* and it’s *so familiar*. Been there baby! 3

have given in and lowered my reading goal for the second time which I’m actually annoyed about but apparently if I want to have a really active social life and a job and spend an incredible amount of napping, sacrifices must be made. or maybe my focus is just terrible, who knows.

Mutable Earth is probably my favourite poem so far. Ooft.

I love every one of these characters so much. Reading this is like going to opening night at my community theatre and seeing a whole bunch of random weirdos I know and love and catching up with how everything has been the last two years and what they have coming up and I’m both thrilled for them but also baffled bc they are. Just a bit bizzare. Excellent vibes.

Meadowlands was amazing, probably my favourite collection so far. Loves it