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Third act conflict exceedingly and disappointingly stupid

Kind of doubting if I should be reading this at this point. Before, it was just clear bias, now I'm catching straight up historical errors and misleadings. Again, this man became president of a college??

The way this man just shat on liberal Quakers as "children" for having the audacity for believing that the Bible wasn't the end all be all of being a good person and a Quaker is INSANE. Especially since he admits that was the common Quaker belief at the time, but that they "failed to understand" things because Quakerism had fallen to such a "low state". The fact the author became the president of a college is crazy

The way my jaw just dropped when a list of early Quaker leaders only included men and didn't even include James Naylor. 4 men get paragraphs (besides Fox) & then a no context list that has one woman: Margaret Fell. I've only ever read books on Quakerism that were either my branch or academic and not affiliated with any branch. It's crazy how full of bias this book is and how different the religion is portrayed! Wild.

This is way better than I expected it to be

I'm really struggling with this one. And lately it's just been so grim. Wish amongst the multiple perspectives at least someone wasn't in such dire straits.

I'm really liking the writing style so far

All I want to do is read this book. It's actually a problem.

I wanted to this to be so much better than it is. Lottie's chapters are sooooo phoned in

I really hope this isn't another story of a power hungry woman and terrible mother. At least Hatshepsut's reign is portrayed as the success it was. Somehow this is the case even though she presents as petty and insecure. Since it's so early on, I'm hoping things will be elaborated to show her in a better light

As someone who has witnessed a surprise volcano eruption that had horrible consequences, the chapter describing the escape from an eruption here left me with chills.

Things are getting good! I just wish more perspectives were being given as much attention as Ead's.

I know this has just been me complaining about this book, but now every woman he runs into has a thought bubble of "wow, he's so cute!" or "just my type!" 🤦🏽‍♀️

He's added "I'm not racist like this lower class soldiers who want to end my upper class way of life are" to his narrative. I really hope it's just the translation because this writing is just not good.

I'm not really enjoying this. The author doesn't do a great job of making the characters feel fleshed out. Including himself. Though he is sure to make it seem like he's the only one with a good head on his shoulders.

I wish I were enjoying this more. The art is interesting, but the writing is not very good. I'm hoping it's just the translation and I'll adjust to it, but the characters and motivations and conversations are just... Not great. I'll keep plugging along.

Good so far. Definitely feels like it's due younger readers. Early to mid teens, which is honestly kind of refreshing seeing how so much YA seems to lean more towards "adult" than "young"

Nice to be listening to a book again, but I feel like I'm missing so much by multitasking

I don't know what it is about this series, but it absolutely terrifies me sometimes. Not any one thing happening, the world can just be so unsettling.

You know a book is getting good when it's affecting the sleep schedule

Finally getting back to this. Made the switch from audiobook to ebook and definitely took me a while to figure out the pronunciations and connect them to what I'd heard when I'd listened to it months ago

I wish I liked coffee so I could relate to these characters more.

Wow, you know, maybe your super special perfect city wouldnt be helpless to an attack if your ARMY knew it existed. Or you know. ANYONE.

I know the joke of this series is that it's just a whole bunch of hot, fae sex, but honestly, I think people just haven't read enough erotica or just romance in general. It's fine in this book, but literally every sex scene is the same. Regardless of who's having it or what kind of emotional tone may have been in the scene preceding the act itself. It's just "time for steamy sex!" Right after a tearful heart to heart

Gosh even on the reread the whole "let's pretend to be sinister/heartless" thing is SO DUMB. Especially when Feyre does it. People saw her before. Why would they think this is her personality all of a sudden just because she's hanging out with the Night Court????

I am bloooowing through this. Loving the reread, though annoyed Goodreads bugs out when you reread a book.

This series needs to decide of their society is a patriarchy or not and of so, to what extent. Feyre is amazed at the idea of women wielding being 2nd and 3rds in command, but doesn't bat an eye at her own human realm being ruled by queens across the sea and Amarantha being a top fae general. Which is it????

This book is actually terrible. My brain is rotting. Send help. Please. Make her stop talking about human slaves. Make her stop summarizing away romance. MAKE HER STOP.


I guess I'll keep reading. I'm almost done.