bri > Recent Status Updates

catherine is so work song coded (i’m cringing as I type this)

chapter 12 begins with a 12-lines-long sentence

this is suuuuch a classic gothic, why was no one yelling at me to read this sooner?

yeah so racism is immediately a major theme

yall know me… I always have to have an informed opinion (I also always could use an excuse to read more classics)

something so deeply annoying about me is that sometimes my brain will just like… decide it’s done with a book before i’ve finished it even if the book is very good. and it’s happening really bad with this one.

FOURTY ONE RATINGS???? CRIMINAL!!! yall get on this series right now!! (hot gay people fighting fascism in a dystopian-y ancient rome, what’s not to love????)

hildegard von bingen 💀💀💀

SHUT UP HAHAHAH I figured this was coming to some degree but this specific reveal is taking me OUT 💀💀💀

time to read my flatmate’s book 😈😈😈 (they’re scared but i’m gonna love it)

racemaking! racemaking! racemaking!

favorite trope!!! let’s go!!! ✊😌

I am genuinely really enjoying this on its own but unfortunately every time a book features a snarky butch (especially a snarky butch knight) I just miss my blorbo/wife about it (gideon my beloved)

the early modernist in me is geeking about the visards and the clearly elizabethan imagery used for the queen … the use of elizabeth’s brand of whiteness as a status symbol… the use of darkness to signify silence and intimidation… i’m bouncing off the walls

just remembered this was a horror book because I was just, indeed, horrified

this is literally a christmas book

(xi) i’m maybe the only person to ever read this book and geek about the discussions of historical racecraft against the goths but here I am (I mean i’m already in the 1% of people who read extratextual content cuz I appreciate the editing)

hellevir is 20% lesbianism, 80% martyr complex, and 100% absolute dumbassery

unbelievably obsessed with this introduction, I think all books should start with an authors note that says essentially: “I worked really hard on this and put a lot of thought into this and if you come into MY book being a judgmental know-it-all to critique something you don’t even know the first thing about, i’ll grab a rusty pole and shove it where the sun don’t shine. everyone else, love u xoxo”

caitvi fans… come get your juice

starting this in honor of my favorite bride, bailey @greekchoir, who has been harassing me to read this for ages (and based on the first few pages, rightfully so)

oh this is immediately so good

can you believe i’m reading this for the first time?

…oh my god. grimdark indeed. I- words cannot describe and emojis are way too unserious for this.

and out of all the references this book so far has had… the one i was least expecting… a warriors cats reference.

the hamlet reference element of this story is so good to me

AND a hamlet reference??? AVA, FOR ME?

and now a potential tempest reference…? shrek and shakespeare? i’ve literally been summoned

…shrek reference? or are there just shrek references everywhere for those with eyes to see?

going through this at a snail's pace because I am in deadline hell (and am burnt out from JUST surviving another deadline hell) but inching through this is truly the highlight of my days, we are SO back with this! hoping the second half is as strong as (or even better than) the first half!