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Fav moments so far:
- Numair telling Daine she’s prettier than Alanna, but prob not Thayet
-Alanna, who spent her entire youth cavorting around with young men, telling Daine she needs a chaperone to meet with Numair in his room
-Numair shovel talking Kaddar while Daine desperately tries to shut him up. Numair telling her to stop kicking him & then turning back to keep threatening a prince makes me laugh every time

Homophobic slur count so far:
Fag: 3
Queer: 4
Fay: 1

Just found out this book was not actually a memoir written by two women, and is instead a novel written by a male ghostwriter who is LYING to his READERS. I’m shaken and appalled. I will endeavor to forget this knowledge as quickly as possible

So funny that they convey Mr. Thrawn’s supergenius by having him do scientific racism. AND he’s a DEI hire. Excited for chapter 2 where he perpetuates model minority stereotypes about Chiss aliens

The SECOND Peter II appears he starts joking about Ender fucking both him and Val II. What is with the incest themes in these books omg

I came into this with an open mind and open legs, and I was BETRAYED!! This shit sucks

Omg if pen is evil im gonna CRY kate and i have spent the entire book gushing about how much we looooove her and how awesome she is. Body shaking heart pounding. We had to stop reading bc we were so stressed about it

I love Novinha. I love crazy bitches. The first woman to deal with her husband having an AI girlfriend, and she handles it with exactly zero grace and poise. She’s so funny

Ender and Valentine’s emotionally incestuous relationship continues unhindered by 25-30 years apart. They reunite and both of their spouses are immediately insanely insecure and jealous bc they know they can never live up to the Wiggin sib bond. Crazy stuff. OSC is aware of this bc he textually clarifies there was never anything sexual about their relationship LOLLL

Listening to this and drinking an iced coffee so bad I’m genuinely concerned it might have some kind of cleaning product mixed in. If I die, know that I was a feminist martyr

HATE the classic Ali hazelwood third act breakup. I think my ideal romance novel would be structured as every chapter of the MCs pining/falling in love alternating with a chapter set after they’ve gotten together of the two of them having crazy sex. And this is every other chapter for the entire book. The sex scenes could be thematically linked to the rest of the story. Or not, idc as long as the sex is outrageous

Every Ali Hazelwood story MUST have an ace spec character, and honestly I think that’s beautiful. Dr Hazelwood put me in your next STEMinist erotic novel I would be a great quirky best friend with a complicated relationship to sex and romance <3

I do think “secure research funding” is an awesome fake dating justification. Also I’m usually too old and jaded to care about this kind of thing but I actually do feel a bit touched by the demisexual representation, however clumsily done. Fake dating is the ultimate demi trope, so it’s only right

I want a road trip buddy comedy about Mina and Van Helsing’s journey across Eastern Europe

Dream blunt rotation: Van Helsing, Quincy Morris the cowboy, Dracula