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first audiobook kinda scared (I hate how she pronounces garage in one syllable I hope i never hear it again)

"He cursed himself for not learning Halha"

you mean to tell me the language for the people living in the desert is Halha ......... out of any fictional name for a language .............. SJM never beating the allegations

back at it again 3 years later..... let's try to finish this 🫩

this is so unrealistic for any woman with the slightest amount of self preservation. let me get this straight, the guy drives you home despite not knowing where you live (how did he know), and the day after when your friend disappears you ask him for help and believe his word when he says she was seen in a taxi?????? the moment she realised he didn't have the address, it'd be over

the..... house has a pov??? the house is called Andy.....??

so far this feels like a children's version of a horror story

just found out the entire book is about Choal. I'm flirting without a nervous breakdown rn

getting through this series is already a TASK not to say a chore, and now I am to suffer his sorry ass for 688 PAGES????!?!??!! worst SJM book ever I don't know if I have the strength

i don't remember the plot so I don't know if there's a male love interest not yet introduced or if she is / was in love with her dead girl best friend. which sexuality are we today

great book if you're insomniac. I've started falling asleep again

as soon as anything remotely of interest happens in his POV we get hit with another irrelevant side story (one was about a tree.) or a childhood story, all of which makes 0 impact to the story. imagine a sex doll's POV having more value and interest than the living man (not hard to believe)

genuinely made myself a drink to bare the thought of reading a book with a male main character. and to endure his incel thoughts. second drink coming soon

it's not what you think

facing my fears and dipping my toes in the book side of GOT universe. scared and excited. send prayers.

I might be entering a toxic relationship with this book. I'm starting to enjoy it just because I'm growing attached to the main character

"But there was no good way out of the situation, and it seemed that the old mantra applied. The only way out was through.
[...]
Thoughts of milking a cow rose unbidden to my mind [...]. Yes, this was what I would have to do - milk him dry, and then I could go to sleep."

what on earth is this and why did RFK ever think this was normal to write in a book. hopefully it will not be normalised and excused.... little hope

sick to my stomach with cringe with this interaction, the guy is so creepy and insistent and she's uncomfortable and I'm uncomfortable and it's the worst scene I've ever read if it doesn't serve the purpose of showing him as a creep

I've just realised there's hardly ever any description of any physical tangible element, like what the surroundings look like, colours, texture, furniture, etc it's mostly thoughts and reflections about language and Taiwan

howwww many chapters around stupid insufferable Chaol do we need Saraaaah 😡😡 I came back for Celeana's captive arc not his sorry ass mopping in a faraway land I was so happy in fact to be rid of him for a whole entire book and despised the slightest mention of his name

are we scared of dialogue why is 90% of it indirect, it makes the story read very factually especially since there's hardly anything happening 🫪

"The heritage speaker advantage led to a bizarre patchwork of near fluency and showing foundational gaps, but I never know how to explain this"


I don't remember the plot of this book so I'm still going blind; it is very much centered around language, reconnecting with your heritage culture and that uncomfortable feeling of not being enough for your home culture. It's making me want to read Babel 😮‍💨

who tf am I to have an ARC from Rebecca F Kuang

1/2 "I barely missed the experience, the revolving door of hope and discomfort. But sometimes I did feel sad about my own disinterest. Part of me had accepted that what I was looking for didn’t exist: a man who was a reader, who wasn’t put off by my career or my opinions, who read and loved women authors. A man who loved what he did, whether that was ornithology or programming or getting under the hood of beater cars

"I’d wonder if I belonged in any real way to that world, where people tumbled pleasantly along in love, or if something about me was just askew enough to put me on the outside."

i planned on taking a break before staring the next one but I'm such an easy prey for a main character imprisoned cliffhanger (red queen created this yearning in me)

I also need to invest in buying the physical copy of this series it has now deserved it

"En aquel momento comprendió que el ser humano se mueve principalmente por models, y que el mayor miedo de todos es el de morir y desaparecer sin dejar rastro. El de macharse de este mundo sin un legado."

i suspect a case of the bad guy was actually just getting revenge and was the good guy all along wronged by the nice husband. kinda like that freakish blonde blue eyed guy in Desperate Housewives

you can ALWAYS spot a male author by how long they spend detailing how ugly and fat a woman looks. because why do you need 7 entire lines to say that

finally, onto the FIFTH book and its 50th chapter, I finally root for a couple and am fully enjoying my reading as opposed to enduring it to get the full backstory before going back to Crescent City. thank the lord for Elide and Lorchan

there's no logic behind the progression of their relationship, he dislikes her for no reason, they saw each other twice in three days and he's already feeling guilty about lying?? and she doesn't hate him anymore despite him being rude to her constantly??? the writing style is so empty half the text serves no purpose. this is either going to be a DNF or a painful hate-read

"There will be no tears, no female manipulation, no threatrics. Just plain and simple respect for the master baker."

why did the author think a mysoginist would be a good idea for her male lead

I wish nice men capable of love actually existed