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What a better way to end the year than by reading a book with my sweetheart Ayman ♥️
If you see me finishing another book after this one, no you didn't

Actually no idea what I'm reading..

“What was I supposed to think, Harriet?” he asks, voice fraying. “When I’d have to cancel a visit, you didn’t care. When I missed a phone call, you didn’t care. You were never mad at me. You never fought with me. It felt like you didn’t even miss me.”

BRO WHAT THE FUCK???

“I was in a dark place,” he goes on.

OH BOY, NO... Minus a zillion points for Wyn. He'll have to do something really extraordinary for me to get over this.

Either this is very sentimental or I'm just being overly emotional. Also, I don't think I like Wyn much, I hope there's some change soon.

In desperate need for a little pick-me-up. Please be good.

“I didn’t survive. I ran. The problem with running is it’s not permanent. Dodging and hiding become your whole existence because the escape is never final. The pain finds you and dumps you back in that dark place until you build enough resilience to run again.”

Uhm can we take a step back and chill a bit?

[...] I could barely restrain myself from kissing—with almost the same kind of pleasure that I should have had in kissing my mother—this new face [...]

Bro is weird.

The best decision I've made is alternating between the audiobook and reading. Proust would've probably been diagnosed with ADHD if he lived in modern time.

Finally (hopefully) resuming this series after starting it in 2020.

It feels so weird when I look back on books I've read and reviewed years ago. Sometimes someone would like an old review of mine or I'd stumble on a book from years ago and feel so removed from that person. It's strange how I have no recollection of some books, as if they were never part of me.

What better way to celebrate love than to live romance vicariously through fiction?

My Google search was "books that feel like a warm hug" and this one was the first answer that came up on a reddit thread, so here we are.

I need to finish this ASAP. I can feel an oncoming reading slump, and I don't know if this one's causing it or what.

"Outside the palace, the air is as cold as a bronze blade pressed to the skin."
"She feels all happiness flowing away from her, as water drips to the ground when a soaked tunic is squeezed."

I'm not sure what these analogies add to the story. I'd be fully immersed in the story and then some odd analogy such as these comes along and ruins the mood.

THE GASP I GASPED!!! Just when I thought this couldn't get any more complicated.

Ouf the two of them fighting side by side is really something!

"Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded. The world darkens, like electric bulbs going out one by one."

Ouf, I really forgot how heavy this was..

Nominating Cole for my most hated character in 2025 so far.

Rereading because I have little to no recollection of the book besides the general setting, and I thought I had written a review but didn't.

“Do not speak of my wife in that manner,”

🤌🏻🥹

Waiting for this to get better because otherwise I'll be one of the 1-star reviewers who were bashed in the book.

"Love must be allowed to flow both ways—if it is not, then it is not truly love, I think. It is something else. Infatuation, perhaps? Either way, there are some of us who are far too quick to make martyrs of ourselves. We stand at the side, watching, thinking that we do the right thing by inaction. We fear pain—our own, or that of another.”

I did not sign up for this therapy session.

Is it normal that I feel like I've missed a whole book before this one or..?

“Give me an excuse, Sazed,” she whispered.
“I should… very much like it if you stayed,” Sazed said, one hand in hers, the other resting on the tabletop, fingers trembling slightly.
Tindwyl raised an eyebrow.
“Stay,” Sazed said. “Please.”
Tindwyl smiled. “Very well—you have persuaded me. Let us return to our studies, then.”

STOP THAT'S SO CUTE 😭

At least Vin knows that she has a type hehe

I was browsing my TBR list for something new to read, and this needs me to read it, so here we are.

This is turning into AoT pretty fast 😭

“Sometimes it’s good to be useful.”
“Those words are spoken of insecurity.”

AHHH IT'S TOO EARLY TO BE ATTACKED LIKE THIS!!!

I keep waiting for this to get better... I literally fell asleep while reading it.. at work.