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I’m so heartbroken by the portrayal of a madhouse during this era. How women were not mad most of the time but just trying to fend off vile men and then their punishment was to be thrown in these houses and tortured. It’s sick. So sad for those women of the past

On page 50 and I feel like I already put the pieces together and I know who the villain is lol. I kinda hope I'm wrong though b/c otherwise I'll be slightly disappointed with how predictable that was. =_=

Not gonna lie...I'm kinda disappointed b/c rather than being absorbed into the atmosphere of this like her other books have done, I find myself bored... I'll keep reading though. It's her first adult novel so I have hopes.

I’m getting pissed. She’s literally slicing her feet to fit the glass slippers she’s grown out of bc she believes they contain magic to keep everyone, husband included, charmed by her. Meanwhile she’s driving him away obsessing over her feet when her whole point was to keep her husband in love with her. 🙄 this better not continue the entirety of the book

Wow Prince Hugh is annoying af

Man one aspect of the storyline plot that annoys me- in the first book Powerless I mentioned the Trials were the Hunger Games. now with this book it is literally copying again the plot point where Paedyn has to enter the Trials AGAIN (like how Katniss did with the Quarter Quell). This just rubs me the wrong way…I don’t like this ESPECIALLY since Lauren clearly is an amazing author without it

Eager to see how this trilogy concludes, angst and all lol

Normally my head is in fiction books and fairytales so this is way out of my sphere of normal reading. Usually I'm trying to escape this world full of such corruption as this. I only wanted to read it b/c I saw her interview on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It's about a 100 pages so not too bad

Hmm…the world building isn’t the clearest. Kinda confused a little by it tbh but I think I sort of get what the author is trying to convey?? Anyway I don’t think there’s an explanation for the world and it is just what it is. However I’ve been hooked from the first chapter which is a good sign AND it had a map in front (also good sign!). Books with maps tend to be good imo.

This book is so gorgeous. The borders of the pages are a deep blue and inside the opening pages have a sunset star filled sky in color with outlines of shadows of dragons!!! 😍
Delicious. I have a feeling this book won’t disappoint!

“Nice doesn’t mean incapable.”

This is very silly but oh so fun

I hate this confusing and stupid time travel logic. I’ve rarely liked it. I think it’s because I hate feeling confused and it rarely ever makes sense. This better end well

“There is such beauty in resilience, in the ability to laugh despite it all.”

“I can’t lose books, I’d lose me .”

“She didn’t really know anything about running a shop or magic or jam… But I do know books- and that meant there was nothing she couldn’t know, eventually. That was magic in and of itself.”

“If there was a book involved, that automatically made any course of action much more sensible.”

The cover is MAGNIFIQUE. It’s gorgeous and MAGIKAL. Totally judging this book by its cover bc the internet doesn’t do it justice. You have to see it in person.

Also I just finished the first chapter and besides the action of revolution, the rest was SO COZY!! Cottage core completely. 🥹 and it’s about a magical being librarian with a sentient plant rescuing books. Like C’MONNN. This sounds amazing

“Lots of people deserve to die,” said the dust-wife finally. “Not everybody deserves to be a killer.” She sighed heavily.

We got a couple of weed smokers here y'all.
Seeing as I believe weed reeks and smells like the bottom end of a skunk and I don't support recreational drug use, I find I still rather amusingly adore the main characters lol.

Ooh, great start! Can’t wait to see how this goes

Ah, nothing like an explosion in a glittering, ballroom scene. Love it.

This book is so Hunger Games inspired as far as the Trials (I mean the interview with the contestants in the colosseum? That's straight out Hunger Games) it was bordering on plagiarism but I love this so much I don't care. When it has all my fave elements and clichés I'm in. lol

Wow why does every chapter I read feel fragile and lovely and makes me feel a sensation of sadness, like I could cry from a broken heart? Because that’s where I’m at. lol

“I loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you’ve never visited, and people you’ve never met.”

It's a weird 360 they did. Sasha & Finn (halfway through the book I forgot each of their names lol) start out being icy to each other and disdainful. It's not until a certain maybe 2 chapters that some truths come out, they find out they share the same childhood experiences, and suddenly they're all hunky dory. Sasha even going so far as to say she trusts him. the heck? i love Sophie Kinsella tho so I'll finish this

This novel touts itself as laugh at loud funny, and by golly it IS. Every couple pages I’m doing it. 🤣 At this pace it’s becoming a high favorite already. And I suppose I love morally gray villains now 😂

Oh this is delightful. Yeah it sounds bad that Kitty our heroine is cunning and trying to secure a rich husband only. A gold digger if you will. However considering her family’s circumstance one could hardly blame her. I love her for it tbh

“Profanity is the refuge of the lazy.”
😂😂

I completely forgot why this Oren Crane pirate character is such a threat to the storyline that reading this I feel like everything the characters are going through is kind of...pointless? hmm. idk if it's finishing strongly...

I've been in a reading slump I guess. Too busy to read and now I have time and have found a book! This one! I smiled when I started it. Has that medieval setting I love, the characters are hilarious and there's touches of magic. It's a promising start and I hope it continues like this

“It feels like the very end of June, or the beginning of July, when you’ve lost track of time, and it doesn’t matter because you have nowhere in particular to be, when summer stretches so luxuriantly on either side of you that you begin to doubt the existence of other seasons.”