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the inherent melancholic loneliness of his writing 👌🏽 👌🏽 love that the tone is very much reminiscent but also so different from young mungo to me in this one

i love you a bit more than yesterday and a little bit less than tomorrow

the writing style is not my cup of tea but this line deserves its own applause

save me leo/tristan codependency save me

also the switch up in the aziza-dion conflict. 👌🏽

NO ONE TOLD ME ID BE EMOTIONAL 1/4 OF THE WAY IN. WE JUST STARTED. WHY WOULD HE WRITE THIS

I have forgotten so much between books 2 and 3 but fuck it we ball

at this point i think im just reading to see how it ends 🫠

“That’s the beauty of being nude in a river; you’re nobody. You’re anybody you want to be. It’s just a dream.”

I’m always going to judge every time a man writes a woman character (and here I am, fucking judging) but idk we’re only 70 pages in and she existed for like two pages so. I like our little witch girl though

re-reading this is really making me ache for another novelization (which we won’t get). there’s such an inherent humor and charm in being in all of their heads (i have so much cuteness aggression when it comes to seiji tell me why that boy can never be direct about ANYTHING even in his own mind (the repression for him runs so deep my god))

“If Nicholas could be faster than Jesse, perhaps anybody could be anything at all. What else could Nicholas be? What else could Seiji be?”

the implicit narrative that he’s been doing life on autopilot in his fencing fucking sends. AND, the fact that this (1)
guy frustrates him b/c his play is unrefined yET it forces him to alter his game in ways he hasn’t considered before. I love you sports anime tropes

“If you’re fast enough, none of it can catch you”

fuck this fucking book for still lancing me 6 years later how the fuck. i did a whole comic re-read and then decided to re hit the books because why not and !!!! cs pacat really did design a whole hs team of boys with trauma and it eats. I love sports as a metaphor for emotional turmoil and they get this perfectly.

I love you sad broken poetries of a past that never was (I fear I know how this ends)

sometimes I forget how beautiful the language can sound and then i read lit written by a poet

it’s like she took a peek into my fucked up brain and said im going to write all the tropes you like you’re welcome…what the fuck! [is dementedly enjoying this]

my heart is fucking breaking,,, what the fuck,, it’s 3 am why would she write this im in shambles

oh my god, I just started but like yes. this is what it’s all about

AM is so good at naturally creating this fun dynamic between her leads like im already pulled in, say less

she’s a little slow (even though she had a strong 2 chapter start) but it’s cass’s debut so im giving it the benefit of the doubt

oh my gooood the girls are fightingggg (rivals to lovers im so predictable)

ok but harry being so gender. and a mess. she’s everything to me.

stupid wizard book and it’s stupid scenes and dumb characters i ended up caring about (anyway congrats Sara raasch your story telling is getting better, love that for you)