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I adore this so far. They’re just so dumb but I love them.
When it switched to Kit’s POV, I was thrown at first… thinking we’d get much of what was told from his perspective, but I wouldn’t have been mad, honestly. Definitely well written from the idea that neither version is WRONG, but neither had all the facts and was skewed by emotions.
Also, everything is SO gay! Everyone, everything, everywhere.

Reread to prep for book 2! Which is finally in the mail on the way to me

Alright, starting to see the beginnings of a romantic relationship, not just physical. There were seeds in most interactions, but nothing beyond what was in their heads. Now this is where I start liking the story more 🤞

I think it’s slow going with the Yangchen story for a few reasons.
1) very political/spy story, which isn’t exactly my jam.
2) Nancy Wu—great voice actress btw—loves to change the way the names are pronounced. I know that many of these names are fictitious and usually based in Asian cultures, but the fact that even SHE changes from one way to two others every so often distracts me & I forget to pay attention

So good! This was the one I was dying to read the entire time I’ve known the comics were a thing, but only just getting around to it.
I remember hearing the base of The Search and spoiled lightly years ago, but not exactly HOW, so that was a nice arc for me to follow.

Restarting woh the audiobook

So far really cute! Interesting case of mistaken identity. I like both the characters and felt like I quickly caught on to personality types so the beginning didn’t drag like YA Fic books sometimes too at the beginning.

Interesting play on fake dating—dating coach for the sake of journalism. I already see where there will be a miscommunication/misunderstanding, so I’m unsure if the author is going to subvert it or just ride that wave later in the story.

Wow, really hate duet narration. Let’s see if it makes me DNF or not

“…for some reason, this makes me feel off, to think of her and ruddy Thomas Gratton in bed together, and to think of them talking about me, of all things. I wonder what they talk about when they aren’t talking about me. The weather, perhaps, or the price of marrow, or the way tourists always seem to wear white shoes in the rain. I think if I had a butcher husband, that’s what I would talk to him about.”

Very interesting premise.
Quite the tonal shift from my last book, POBAB 😂

“What are you doing out here this night?”
“Meddling,” I answer, because it’s an answer that is difficult to argue with.

1) give me more Kieran POV. His voice is like butter! Also reminds me of the narrator of the Lemony Snicket movie.
2) wow. Not how I expected it to end but I can dig it. The twist part, not the cliffhanger part.
*spoiler*
3) Delano 😭
4) where is Poppy? Vague language.
5) Attes? Was he in the ballroom w/ Cas@ the end?
6) Kolis? It was vague (again) on what happened. Fight, but did he disappear? Stasis? Dead?

Little late of a start this year, but happy November 🖤

Okay they’re cute. I worry about Irene’s insecurities but damn, if that isn’t so real…..

Overall this is a really cute read so far. Definitely a fun play on the tropes.

I was really liking Aiden up to this because, even though Irene doesn’t trust him, I can see through it that she is misreading him. But with the whole “let’s both do this challenge!” Flip the script, it was done in a way that she can’t really decline… cuz he can copy her idea and claim it as his own. But hopefully it’ll prove to be just another attempt of him trying to befriend her.

18% through this very long book and I feel like almost nothing has happened.
Yay Attes! But maybe because I JUST listened to the previous books, Kolis sounds different and it seems like what I know as his motivation and others’ motivations seem to have changed?
And the current scene is seeming to retcon info we already had. Info that was previously revealed slowly through memories. Confusing.

Mention of the gods asleep was interesting now that I know those characters fairly well. Still forgetting who is of what court, but they’re all friends.
Found a nice nugget of Cas’ mistrust of the deity that is supposedly the god of rites and prosperity, knowing that Sera took that court from Veses, and considering her name isn’t to be known, I think they just came up with a made-up god.

Reread before POBAB
Hoping to remember where Cas and Poppy are at the start of Primal, but I don’t remember much of the big battle that happened right before this

Do I go back and read ASOAAB so I’m caught up on Poppy & Cas and where that left off?? They’re so long but I almost wanna read the one before it because that had the big fight.
This is why rereads of series that feed into one another are so difficult to figure out :/

Spoilers
Tells Ash the news
Maya moves on and Ione ascends
Vessies goes bye bye and sera takes over court.

Yay trauma! Spoilers*
She’s distraught but Nektas calms her in her Nota form. Ash arrives & they talk. Now is the time to take action.
They call other Primals.
Keela joins. Mya on board but cannot stand against Kolis due to a sworn fealty she was forced into, so she decided she needs to die & Aios take her place once she gets affairs in order. Primal of Sea: he’ll stay neutral.
Sera figures out she is preggers.