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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.

She wakes to Ash not there. He got pulled to the Pillars and they realize it was due to massive death in mortal realm. Oh no.
Sera goes to Wayfair to discover everyone massacred, including sister, her wife, and mom. Kyn and other primal there, but Kyn runs and Serakills other guy. Has to quickly ascend Penelope since that primal died. In her rage, she brought back some but mortals are life for a life, so she killed.

…Ash & Sera make plans for how to imprison Kolis. Vessies tries to come warn Nyktos to take deal.
In starting to open up to Ash about her imprisonment, she changes to Nota for 1st time. Runs and he chases all night so she’ll settle. Tries to play it off as no big deal and not major trauma.
Another night of opening up to Ash fully after realizing it wasn’t “nothing” when Kolis had her in a cage, but….

So much happened suddenly & forgot to update my “notes” here
*Spoilers*
Becuz of the offers of deals, they enter an “airini” where they can’t hurt one another and Sera can’t call the other primal for aid as it would upset balance.
Sera goes back to Wayfair to warn sister of coming war that would affect mortal realm. Makes sorta peace with mom. Callum was there cuz he gets lonely so sera kills him again…

Notes to self with spoilers:
Kolis, upon awakening (after the attack from Sera in escaping his imprisonment), takes only a moment before using a Fate (Aydun) to be go-between in a summons of Sera, not Ash. Sera must comply to meet on Kolis’ terms. He offers deal to let Ash & Sera live in shadowlands in exchange for Sotoria. She counters w/ letting him live with no power. But Kolis weaponizes her fear (death power)

Notes to self for future reads:
Sera & Ione talk about time when Sera was imprisoned: ione understands being a “favorite” and also about when Sera ascended and she brought back Ione, but not Ektor. Ione wasn’t ready to die.
Sera wants to bring “life” *eyeroll* back to shadowlands and can’t wait for the rain so she brings water back with new primal powers. In doing so, she unintentionally wakes Kolis.