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"I have always been good at hiding my emotions" girl no you literally have not?? you blush SO easily it's so obvious. pls you're not mysterious.

this age gap is literally criminal. why is june 15 with a romance plot being pushed with a 20 year old. this all could have been better if june and day were 17/18

“if it weren’t for the baby” peeta mellark the man that you are

oh i wondered why the end of haymitch’s games sounded familiar, i had completely forgotten they had watched the recap!! really curious the process then later fleshing that out, i guess any corners she wrote herself into she could just blame on the capitol’s editing lol.

"I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite."

katniss actually has her priorities straight, queen

vague "the grand budapest hotel" vibes. these kinds of more cerebral, oddly-specific novels can be hit or miss, but i really like this so far :)

his horse is named comrade.... right

truly a game of "how many tropes can we fit in one book?" one bed, fake marriage, miscommunication (x10,0000), he was so BIG and she's so smol, enemies to lovers but the DANGER how HOT!, ""betrayal""... yep... why am i reading this you may ask... idk, i'm a completionist i guess, despite the plot of their relationship just being the same thing over and over

GIVE ME MORE MAGIC!

ok now this was the easy addictive read i was looking for. i smell a love triangle (gag) but that's usually one of the few things i can complain about in a jennifer lynn barnes novel lol

maybe bc i’m going from the adult sci-fi project hail mary to a YA fantasy, but this is lacking the magnetism of the author’s other series i’ve loved (waxways and nyxia). i hope i like it more as it goes on

absolutely enjoying this funky guy

heaps of depression

well this just got a lot bigger than i thought! truly insane world building

the choice to have one pov be second person is wild but it’s so well done i stop noticing?? curious to see the reason why essun is so different from the other two and their third person

impeccable vibes

previous book was so heavy that i'm already loving the refreshing and lighter narrative style of this one!! such a cool concept as well, civil war times zombies :D (don't think i've really read any zombie books, just watched zombie movies)

i’m vibing way more with this pace! however i am struggling a bit with this 7 year time jump (yea kids but still). the years in the chapters are a nice touch and i would love to track with that but i’m too head empty … also ik they’re killing people but i draw the line at cheating fr,, what were y’all doing

i'm invested in the world (which i sure hope so with the time investment in these tomes) but i just feel like i'm missing some crucial emotional connection with the characters. maybe it's the writing style but i don't really feel like the POV voices change very much and events are just being reported objectively

fullmetal alchemist vibes

so much political intrigue and backstabbing. but its really interesting getting more pov characters to flesh out the stories and kind of make you root for the other sides!!

i love that they included someone that's korean (and like hey, i'm in korea rn!) but the pronunciation of ajumma just now in the audiobook killed me. in retrospect it wasn't that bad but the american urge to pronounce things with the second syllable stressed is unavoidable (i am also guilty of this)

yknow the authors really took the “make anything that can go wrong go wrong” thing very seriously. i feel like they upped the spunk in this book particularly with scarlett (tho i do forget tyler is supposed to be a prim and proper dude with the amount of sass he has). anyway this would make an epic animated series

ok these characters have spunk! i’m curious to see if there are lingual differences after 200 years. i mean imagine talking to someone from the 1800s!

she’s into fashion, sewing, art, debate, law, running… which is kind of a lot but ok.. contains multitudes ig.

great vibes. kind of makes me think of percy jackson and good omens

i feel like there are only two truly good people in this entire book lol. a sociopath definitely spiced some things up tho! but tbh were this far through and i’m still wondering what the point is/what it’s building up to… we barely even know anything about the narrator

ok i'm more taken with this book than i would have ever expected. not my normal jam but it's a little addicting? having a horse named doxology is really funny. but the casual racism (being set around the turn of the 20th century) is cRAZY!!!!!!

so tense rn

this man is a master manipulator, i honestly can’t help being a little impressed

take a shot everytime todd says shut up

(audiobook is peak even tho i had to get an audible trial)

SO stressed. also this is becoming one of my fave series ?????