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rereading for a class - I think I’m liking it more this time

let’s gooooo

“what’s this book about?” couldn’t tell you. i’m trying to find out myself. (someone pls tell me the third part magically ties everything together?)

i am having a Thought and i can’t think of anyone to share it with?!??!?! AJSKDHWOQKW

i’m gonna need something disgustingly fluffy after this. god.

that part will always ruin me

“it’s hard to hate them because they’re such idiots” (paraphrased bc on audio) is such a killer line

ohmygod why is this so boring!!

i can’t get over how BAD their names are

this series from Annabeth’s pov would end me tbh

can you tell I did some browsing at an indie bookstore lol

CC writing the Ashkar is so obnoxious. This isn’t taking “inspiration” from Jewish tradition, it’s just lazy substitution, sorry lol. Like it’s fine if she’d been upfront about it being an allegory or smth, but she’s claiming it’s a “broad reference,” without adding literally anything of her own

watched a 45 min recap of book 1 and am /still/ struggling bUT I refuse to reread it because (LIKE THIS BOOK) it’s over 20 hours on audio

it’s always kinda crazy when you come across a 1 star review on this app and the reviewer, who says they DNF’d after a couple pages, complains that an issue was not explored. like, bestie. you read FIFTEEN PAGES.

oh my fucking god STOP crying about how no one understands if when they ask you outright you blow them off! repeatedly! with every point of conflict!

the fact that this is STILL SO ADDICTING even though I’ve already read this before and know exactly what’s gonna happen (nothing much tbh) is so ridiculously impressive.

Oh I forgot how much I hate Matts at the start lol

not the hummus slander

I MISSED THEM

…you have any ya book in verse to reference and you choose ode to my first car… I’m judging so hard

I can /hear/ Natalie winking every time they bring up OLS lmaooo

LOOK—

so pissed that this is turning out to be a cartoonishly simplified story instead of the ya speculative fiction I wanted

idk who’s gonna get this but it’s giving that one law&order reimagining story in carmen maria machado’s her body and other parties

maybe I’m misremembering the first book but this one has so much more angst and horniness going on (often at the same time) (do with that what you will) (I have a feeling people are going to eat this up) (I lowkey am tbh)

the u-hauling lesbians have nothing on these two

my screen time today (so far): 11.5 hrs
my libby screen time today (so far): 10 hrs

whoopsies

you know it’s fucking good when they describe their physical reaction to the emotions of the scene and it is exactly how you feel reading it