Kelsey > Recent Status Updates

there is 0 conflict so far. no reason why the MCs can’t work or won’t end up together. and i’m just getting to the point where i might be bored and skip chapters.

i’m trying. i’m trying to like this book. but so far it’s just a verbose word vomit. i’ve heard it gets better i just don’t know if i can last that long.

this book is suffering the communication problem where the MCs refuse to have an honest conversation with each other and it’s causing confusion and unnecessary drama. i do kind of understand why, they’ve both held back and deceived in the past but… it’s getting tiresome.

he wants an annulment. she doesn't want to be married to him. but she won't give him an annulment because... she wants him to suffer??? I'm v confused. it seems best for both MCs if she agreed to the annulment and her reasoning is not sound. this is why I don't like enemies to lovers. their reason for being enemies is... not a real reason. it's too contrived.

“I’ve heard that people can go crazy when someone close to them has a kid and they can’t have one themselves.”

This storyline is making me sick. How incredibly insensitive to portray people with infertility as caricatures. Clearly the author has never actually talked to someone who's struggling to get pregnant. Or had a miscarriage.

"My swollen clit was peeking out from beneath its fleshy hood, searching for any signs of what it wanted."

Lololololol wut 🤣

Looks like I'll get to "finish" this book at week 37 💚

"He was talking marriage? To a woman he barely knew, whom he’d met four times?"

ALMOST HALFWAY THROUGH AND THEY'VE MET 4 TIMES AND TALKED ABOUT HIS SISTERS ALL 4 OF THOSE TIMES.

42% done and our MCs have interacted 3 times. For minimal amounts of time, and nothing like romance has been discussed.

I'm annoyed.

“Ah, the vagaries of youth. It’s a universal truth that anyone under twenty thinks they understand the world until they hit thirty. At some point, you’ll realize none of us really know what we’re doing. Even the old codgers like me muddle through.”

Soooo... He already has one child with his (ex?) fiance, and now he just had unprotected sex with a 17 year old... There's a lot not to like about Charles, the first being he's a completely selfish, self serving asshole.

"Of which Ian fed bites to a cat beneath the table before he fed bites to himself."

Both Genevieve and Alex are toying with Ian and it's endlessly amusing. Also Alex's torment of Harry is funny. I didn't think this was going to be so funny!

(In the previous scene, Alex left out a book he was planning on reading, poisonous plans of Sussex, and Ian saw the title)

"His instrument was large..."


This is a new way of wording it... 😳

"Standing here now, Linnet was seized with sudden doubt about the course she’d chosen"

I know her refusal is meant to make us think she's this strong willed heroine making good choices, but Linnet honestly just seems like a stubborn idiot.

“Too bad. This is really good whiskey.”

No one who actually drinks whiskey thinks Jack Daniels is good whiskey 🙄

26 weeks 💚

"They ought to have been happy, but lovers are like the ever-moaning sea."

Too true.

"Hugh could only stare. There appeared to be sixteen different conversations going on at once. With only three participants."

Living with sisters is exactly like this 🤣

"Harriet gave her a bit of a look, then said, “I switched one of the divorces with a beheading.” “May I give you a bit of advice?” Anne asked. Harriet looked up. “Don’t ever let anyone hear you say that out of context.”"

Talking about Henry Viii's wives 😂

“I am trapped in a bad novel,” Iris announced, to no one in particular.

This should be said more often, in both novels and the real world 😂

Eva is so freaking annoying

The longest prologue ever and the first section written from the POV of the butler. I'm already in love.

I am concerned because we are almost a third of the way in and have already done the makeover and I feel like a lot of in your head anxious pining is going to happen now. Which I do not like.

“You should have told us when they came to your door,” he said sternly.

“You’re our daughter,” he said, eyes blazing. “We’ll get flights out as soon as we can.”

Your father is a 400 year old vampire. You have vampires after you, accusing you of crimes. YET YOU DON'T WANT HIS HELP?!

You've been summoned by the vampire govt? rulers? idk but you don't call your parents?! What kind of 23 year old are you?! I have an odd morning dropping my kid off at school and I call my parents! Like??!!??!! Why wouldn't you call the people who can help you?!

I still do not understand why she'd keep what she calls a monster inside of her from her parents. I can't say I've told my parents everything, but our relationship seems similar to the one Elisa has with Ethan and Merit. And I'd definitely tell my parents something this major.

"He never should have put the damn sock on the puppy. It was the sock that had given him away."

“Wet raisins—those are grapes. You literally just described the fruit that raisins are made from.”

I thought this book was going to be a ball of fluff (heh, Pomeranian, get it?) but so far it's kinda cute and making me laugh!

"Didn’t she realize how much more she deserved?"

It's so frustrating that Ellie is being purposefully obtuse about George. She's not dumb and this facet of her makes her seem incredibly naive, which isn't consistent with her character at all.