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“Yes, she thought, if there was a man in the world who looked exactly like Georgiana Darcy, that would suit me very well indeed.”

SO CLOSE

“He ought to be a little on the short side, for she did not like tall men the way some women did. Perhaps about Georgiana’s height, she mused. Miss Darcy really was the perfect height; tall enough to loom over Caroline by two or three inches, but short enough to kiss without Caroline having to crane her neck. Yes, a shorter man would do nicely.” Her list keeps going back to “like Georgiana” - so close!!!

Assuming this Solitude guy is her eventual love interest because he's obviously the hottest character. (I am no better than a man.)

I love how the dystopia revolves around pollution.

"Because something in my gut tells me that my father will always find a way to control me, no matter how far I run." I cannot wait to see you get your revenge, Poet. I have never hated a character as deeply as your dad.

I've read too many dystopian books...so as soon as characters are introduced as dead AND there's a mysterious rogue group that supposedly killed them...I'm suspicious.

I already cried reading the Author’s Note, definitely reading a Kennedy Ryan!

“If you’re walking this road in any role or capacity, my great wish is that even as parts of it may hit close to home, that they hit with hope.”

People who don’t think romance books are deep will be hearing from me 🤺🤺🤺

The “we’re fake dating but we have to stay together for *plot reasons*” is always top tier!!

I forgot that the parrot and capucin monkey are in love 😂😂😂

Sheldon “why am I so easy to reject?” 😭
Brodie the student shutting down 😭
Theo and his PTSD triggers 😭

This book is so cute and then goes and becomes deep too and now I’m in my feels

Ok Aiden is going kind of feral now and I’m fully committed to

This angsty vibe of believing in love but wanting only the real thing is beautiful, but I struggle with my attention span when the lovers spend a lot of time apart like in this book.

I’m really enjoying reading about how traditional Buddhist meditations compare with Western psychology. This last section on healing traumas was especially impactful!

The thing about me is that I like my fairytale retellings to be a bit more obvious? (As I tried to explain this I kind of started to understand the connections. But also not really.) I believe this is supposed to be a Snow White retelling?

“When the whole world tells you you’re silly for wanting the things you want, you start to believe them. You start to think you’re not worth it. That if the things you’re waiting for do exist, they’re not for someone like you.”

“After six years of hosting Heartstrings, Baltimore’s Romance Hotline, I’ve discovered people don’t want to be told how to fix their lives or be held accountable. They just want to hear themselves talk and validate their own narcissism.”

Aiden is such a mood omg 😂

I’ve already half-giggled, half-screamed and kicked my feet twice

"But what about the Irish?" The racism-denier cried. See page 164 to quickly sum up the difference between slavery and term labor and also the racism and fear that lead to more European immigrants being brought over.

It took me 3 months to read the first 9 (10%?) chapters...now I can't put it down!

I just started it and it's just as Huger Games as I want. She's already talking about running away with her best guy friend so she/they won't have to fight!

This is way too soon to be saying this, but I am obsessed with this book.

Skip all the other books if you haven't read them and read this one. Ah, her character work. I love Robin so much.

Omg a trans character just showed up. I like this book so much more now.

Pushed through and I'm back to the "Margaret Atwood is a genius" stage of listening.

I'm reading too many books and I don't love this as much as I loved the first I wish I'd started reading it immediately after I finished Seraphina.

Everything just got real.

I think I hit around the point I bailed out last time...

I should really get my life together. But I just got this bad boy from the library so I guess today is not that day!