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i don't want to get too excited but this might fill the hole in my heart left by 'the privilege of the sword' eleven years ago :')

immediately, this is the balm my soul needed after how tedious and mid 'A Lady for a Duke' was. this has CHARM. and FLOURISH.

Would be so nice to read a book about transwomen and their sexuality and love life and not have it all treated with kid gloves. Or fear of tenderqueer twitter pile ons idk. It's just so DULL.

Everything about this book other than the main couple is cute. I have zoned out MULTIPLE times during their solo scenes.

god i can already tell this one is going to be bloated as fuck lmao

oh ms addison, I can't stay mad at you for long, especially when I need a palette cleanser novella

Honestly did not expect we'd get to like, an insane love pentagon in this book. Starling has a crush on Fitz, the Fool transcendentally loves Fitz, Fitz loves Molly, Molly and Burrich are sus 🤨, Kettricken has to manage this for some reason?? Fitz and Kettricken still lowkey have some crazy tension, Kettricken loves Verity, Verity is camping.

the first half of this book was like reading a 300-something page fantasy novel that was just arya acok+asos chapters. now, we're COOKING.

also man what the fuck "If there must be another my fate is twined around, I am glad it is you" sorry how am i NOT supposed to ship it. fantasy authors can't stop themselves from making the het r'ships fucking miserable and the 'same-sex' friendships the most romantic shit.....

fitz................ buddy.....................................

Wow despite over 50 books read, this year in reading was really a nothingburger. such a shame! after I REALLY got back into reading last year I ended up bouncing off SO many books this year. I DNF'd more than ever and finished so many more because of a sense of obligation rather than enjoyment (and let's be real the spectre of GR reading stats looming above me...). 2026 goal: don't do that again lol

this book is so fascinating. just grind the entire thrilling trilogy's pacing to a halt as fitz travels with various randoms and is forced to confront himself over and over and over and ov

inhales deeply.............. fitz..............................

omg we actually got chivalry lore!! however ಥ_ಥ

i know this book has mixed reviews amongst the hobbheads but at least i KNOW ms robin can write

i'm so sorry to this book and it's very charming lesbian MC csorwe but there's something that just utterly fails to keep me hooked and i'm SO close to dnf'ing. why has every paperback i've read for the past three months done this to me 😭

This is good. This is FUN. I just want to sit down and read it but 1. It's Silly Season 2. It reminds me a LOT of old OCs and I keep getting distracted thinking about them, both a good and bad thing lmfao

I've truly ran out of old Hall and now diving into the rest of nu Hall. And. Well. what an ODD premise. Will Watt is suuchhhhhh a charming narrator tho

I'm obsessed with this book having been repackaged in 2025, originally published in 2016 and referencing The Game. That smacked me in the fucking face lmao. What year is Hall LIVING IN

First book I'm picking up on the recommendation of my new fave podcast, Wizards vs Lesbians 👀

Waiittttttt Alexis Hall has more pre-2020 books let's get on this

POPE VILLAIN REVEAL??????????

Im doing kombucha girl on how dodgy I think the changgu dynamic is. I can't decide if 2ha "24 year old teacher has a crush on his 15 year old student" destroyed my moral compass or what. I DID look up gu yun's age and it makes me feel much better. so far he could be any age from like 18 to 35 lmfao

Ok so my interpretation of changgu's dynamic and respective personalities from fanart was wildly off base lmao. Gu Yun's monocle does a lot of heavy lifting in the sophistication department, meanwhile, Chang Geng, the world's most LOCKED IN 13 year old

back on my danmei shit and............ like i know enough to know this has an age gap, big power imbalance relationship, i can obvs tell which character is secretly the ML and lmao DAMN. getting a lil nasty with this. i am however a veteran of the 2ha trenches so i will soldier on...

this has started flopping HARD (THREE exposition dumps in a row jesus) but i'm sunk cost fallacy finishing it....

I am.... curious? perplexed? about the pacing. i feel like we should be like 75% done but we're not even halfway what the hell.......

are the authors trying to execute an honest portrayal of two knucklehead american college bros. or is this genuinely what's attractive to straight women. i'm too scared to find out.

I've lost the thread of this book he really is just letting us all know his mountaineering beefs. and I'm STILL here for it

Phew. Honest to god if readers get up to the nursing home scene and haven't began to pick up what this book is putting down you must be dumb or have lived an incredibly charmed life.

It rules that I'm over halfway done and no murders have happened yet but the entire romantic arc was developed and resolved between the 40-55% marks. What happened to Charles' juice lmao