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the valmont/tourvel correspondence is pissing me awff lmao its so boringg

he was doing sooo well writting women (for a 1960s book) until apollonia rip feminism

this book is so not what i was expecting and i hope christopher being an asshole and completely un self-aware will actually be adressed bc hes so hypocritical... kazuo ishiguro i trust you but also i think this book is nowhere near the rest of his books (so far)

theres a good book in here somewhere but its hidden in so much boring stuff

MABEL DONT YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM AFTER SEX

and then theres evie/sam who i LIKE but the love triangle is so bad for them like oh my goddd way to make jericho into a creep. and its like now evie will end up w sam cause hes the only one left. but thats not how romances should work, convince me why evie and sam WANT to be w each other, and omg i j realized i forgot abt theta/memphis, yea this authors stong suit isnt romance. im enjoying the book tho <3

also its hilarious how underdeveloped the romances are in this book likeeee i was pissed awf abt ling and alma but tbh all the other romances are only marginally better like mabel and arthur (why was mabel thinking abt evie while having sex w him. gay ASS), henry and the dude w no character, even evie and jericho.... BOO!! the gay romances are still noticably worse though. except for henry and louis !! my kings!

this book is so funny, everyone is facing their dark pasts and meanwhile mabel is campaigning for unions and bombing mines 💀

fuck this book quotation marks exist FOR A REASON

ive completely forgotten abt this book lmao i dont really think i like margaret atwood novels oops

o stevens einai problematic κανσελ χιμ!!

purity culture is a disease 🫶

MARGE KNITTED DICKIE A SWEATER NAURRR ANOTHER VICTIM... SAVE MY GIRL

idgaf that he killed dickie just stop gaslighting my girl omggg

i love that the book is considered less contextually gay than the movie and yet ton has a mental breakdown after seeing dickie kiss marge and monologue about how he didnt expectthat from him. after a chapter of like fantasizing about the euro trips they were gonna go on together. LMFAO

he wants to fuck alicia so bad it makes him look stupid

this book... is bad

i just realized that all the crims they turned specials are like 18 MAX. probably not even 17 yet 😭 why are they the governments best super soldiers 😭 like i understand the plot reasons that they turned everyone into specials but in-universe it kinda doesnt make any sense 😭 arent most of the specials middle aged

this is tiring 😭 obviously tally didnt want to be special so whyy is she just letting it happen and not rebelling internally? is it a different kind of brainwashing? why after 2 books of her showing she can take initiative is she juat following shaylas orders 😭

the next time i read a book with undeclared pov changes im setting it on fire

me when i read the classic book people said was good and its actually good

ooh i thought this was children's bc of the movie but its decidedly not lmao
also im reading this from this weird online library site and its not even the epub its the physical book like scanned. reminds me of my old days in 2016 reading books online and suffering through ads every chapter <3

i need to go to therapy bc im actually relating to this freak (richard papen) and in my first read i fucking hated him

i have so many thoughts. mostly how much lost potential there is.

im reading this on the bus and i love it sm so far... feels like i picked it up at the right time :)

im done but i have to go back and reread like 6 meereen arc chapters. i truly wonder what cerseis pov chapters will be from now on and how the walk of atonement has changed her. i think it might be like ariannes shift after the myrcella plot goes south. also obviously jon is coming back so like. yeah. but its an interesting shift in grrms writing style and plot design bc its so different to agot

ive started skipping daenerys' chapters LAMKSKDKLSKSKS. JON CHAPTER RIGHTS!

i hate romances written like this where the characters obsessively think about each others appearances from day one. like. yall just met. where is yhe Progression where are the Growing Feelings.

LETS FUCKING GOOOO

ive been reading so much grrm and im so used to his overtly descriptive and medieval (and kinda creepy in a bad way) style that even though ive read this like ten times (only abt 7/8 are logged on goodreads cause i usually dont read the last few pages bc this is my get over my feelings book) the writing seems kinda simple to me even though its NOT a simple book. its still childrens tho and asoiaf is decidedly... not