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I wonder if they get fake married because in case they (hopefully) fuck at some point, the author wants to avoid sex before marriage ...? Some authors seem really concerned about this, like Rebecca Ross

I just HATE it when in gay romances the love interests are refered to as "the other man/woman". It destroys the emotional connection and sounds stale. "Nate was captivating, and Michael wanted every minute that he could spent with the other man." / "He should mention it to Jacob in a way that wouldn't offend the other man". And in both of these examples, there's absolutely zero reason why it can't just say HIM.

Last year I was in a rush to buy the hardback for 31 € and then I didn't manage to read it because I assumed this was slow and demanding to read. Now the paperback for 13 € is out and it reads smooth and fast >_< Well, I couldn't have known the paperback would be out within a year, I guess ...

"Corayne remembered Erida, resplendent in velvet and emeralds, hair coiled to complex perfection, a heavy golden crown across her brow. She smiled, charming even as she lied, manipulative as she was beautiful. Erida was a burning candle, throwing off a deceptive warmth, her sapphire eyes holding every promise of the world." - Corayne, it's gay to think of your arch enemy like this. She's so lesbian without realizing

To conclude pride month ^^

"A unicorn must be tempted, brought near, and then undone by the maiden. That was the part he did not quite understand, the part he did not know how to fit within the great ritual of the hunt." - Ooooh, the great veteran general does not understand or just see the non-violent power of girls. Typical. He dismisses and belittles anything feminine. And the duchess plays right into it & uses THAT to her advantage.

Took over a third of the book, now finally something happens

Of course this book is PERFECT for Walpulgis night but it's always disappointing when even german authors are like "these witches descend from the condemned at Salem" as if those were firstly, actual witches with magic, and secondly, Germany doesn't have its own dark and widespread history of witch trials. Witch trials happened in many small and bigger towns RIGHT HERE, not only at Salem!

Another prime example of younger sibling used exclusively as motivation and plot device. The brother never does anything but create problems! Yet he is supposed to be a great sword fighter. When will he take part in a sword fight, let alone pick up the sword for showing off in defense?

We started with a scheming lady very close with another woman but now we're back to the violated damsel in distress saved by her man (and healed by dick) and in a feud with the other lady. All other women but the nursemaid are portrayed negatively too :-/ including the sapphic hints (just hints ...! I want this to be really sapphic)

I've planned to read it this weekend and it becomes only more urgent with the developments regarding Collien Fernandes

Wulf is just accepted into the Priory not an intruder, he can tell his boyfriend about the Priory no problem, he can leave as he pleases taking a ichneumon to travel WHEN ALL THIS WAS DENIED TO SIYU AND HER BOYFRIEND MURDERED. And now Siyu accepts the gaslighting victimblaming brainwashing of the Priory cult and Wulf doesn't bat a eye to how the Priory abused Siyu. Does the author try to deny the evil done to Siyu???

Helena did WHAT?! In canon Iliad, she called out Aphrodite for abducting her and told her to be Paris's sex doll insteaad! A fucking goddess! Why did none of the retellings I read say how badassly sharpmouthed Helena is and instead made her selfish at best and slutty or evil at worst? And she was also worshipped later in Sparta as in FORGIVEN by Menelaos and her people

Still no fucking and better for it (compared to Priest). The attraction and horniness is so obvious the author has to use the build-up to sex to the fullest

We get a little POV switches into the other characters to see more of them, yay! But Auden still bears no appeal to me. We should like and be sorry for him but I don't feel it. He's a entitled rich boy who's also supposed to a dom in bed but that doesn't make him hot to me. The opposite - he's so entitled he even needs submission from lovers to feel (more) powerful. Yikes. He can cry quietly in the corner.

I don't buy it when people claim to be the only fat person around. Fat people are really common - in what kind of groups do they circle to know no (or not even see) other fat people?

The book actually lampshades how it's more aesthetics than substance, being like "he's lean and broody and that's hot but IDK why he flusters me like this." Yeah, me neither. I like that type too but why should I like HIM?

I was gonna say is it a good idea to wash your hair before a dinner with guests? Such work to get it in shape while wet hair is embarrassing. But the book actually acknowledges this, woah

I'd hoped The Poet Empress would be about a female community discovering the power of words and literature (which it absolutely isn't) but it so happens this book delivers the idea instead

Can't believe the german edition is shelved as young adult. It's so brutal!! (totally not like I expected)

His real name is Bastian? That's a neat one. Then why do I have to put up with a stupid name like "Ransom"??

There's so much effort put into world building and setting so why are they wearing lame modern clothes? Fuck sweaters, I want the fancy historical stuff

The victim blaming here is terrible. This woman asks for a love spell and the witches give it but when the woman complains about the guy turning controlling, the witches tell her to fuck off instead of helping & somehow, she becomes literally mute & the book is like she deserves it. What? If the love spells are so ethically wrong, the witches are wrong to offer them too & can't push all the blame on the customers

Some books: You're so wet you're dripping
This book: '[He said,] "Here, I am the supplicant." My head fell back as he tasted me, accepting my libation even as he knelt in worship.'
When Samantha Shannon gets explicit, she makes it EXTRA. Libation lol. How does Paige even know the word? She always needs mythology explained to her.

60 pages with no sight of Safi and Iseult only with side characters wandering around with no idea where (typical), then a 100 pages SOLELY with Safi, Iseult and Aeduan (& a bit of Caden) and you can just say it, the first 60 pages were pointless.
Still shipping Safi with Caden though, those scenes together were INTENSE

We're already told at the start she fakes her death, why does it takes almost half the book to get there? The author shouldn't have spoilt the story like this

"I have never known men" - fuck, where??? There are men 24/7 surveilling her to check she never does anything forbidden while she also has (probably violent) sex fantasies about the one hot guy (and she finds the other women annoying, too)

I can't emphasize enough how much it bothers me the first thing the war minister asks is to be called by her first name and then narrator Owen actually following along. Have they no self respect? Is this another "women have no last names" thing by the author? I cringe very time I read "Vivian"

Never before have I so eagerly anticipated to hate-read something - for 4 years!! Unless of course it's so bad I won't get into the story to begin with. Though maybe the author heard of my and similar complaints of how confusing this series is. There's a glossary in the back now and the start mentions a summary online. Woah. (seems way too long though, it's 10 pages in Word even in the smallest font size)

I didn't even know what this is about but it seems like the dark sapphic witch x demon book of my dreams <3 Gives what Midnight Soil didn't