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There’s a whole lot of nothing going on in this book. However, as someone who has also repressed most of their childhood and hasn’t gone to therapy, this book sure has some relatable quotes lol

I don't think I'm an Emily Henry fan... like... there's almost no substance here, no chemistry, nothing

I’m surprised about all the accurate stuff about Canada

I hate to say this but I feel like there’s too many recurring characters..

This book making me realize that any new modern-day romance released with characters younger than 25-26 are characters who were cannonically born in the year 2000 or after gave me the ick for modern-day romance lmao

The mmc not having basic human empathy for the fmc really reminds me that this is supposed to be dark romance.. easy to forget when it's also a rom-com

"He didn't like being the one doing the fucking all that much; he loved being fucked. Women were not properly equipped to do that, and Shane was too embarrassed to ask them to use a dildo on him, so he more or less forced himself to endure the act of fucking women." Are we for real??? So not only are we dealing with gay fetishization but also misogyny in a story with no women??

So I understand that internalized homophobia is something that a lot of queer people have to work through, but the way it keeps getting mentioned plus the absurd amount of sex that’s already happened, I still can’t shake the feeling that the author is just sexualizing/fetishizing gay men which feels gross

“Of course men are uninteresting to her, they are fundamentally uninteresting” iconic

Ngl I’m kinda bored with this one

Now that the dragons have appeared, I kinda wanna reread Eragon lol

I don’t mean to be rude but if the mmc is described as having a hot radio voice, why did they cast a this narrator.. he does not have a hot radio voice imo

This is already so much better than Half His Age

Why is everyone pretending that Hannah isn’t the villain here 😠😠

“I won’t go down without a fight.” Wdym??? You crumpled in the first second of round one wdym you’re gonna fight???

Istg if the reason they’re not currently together is because of a miscommunication years ago I’m gonna be so mad

So he buys his fiancé a necklace for her birthday that the fiancé’s sister picked out and then he buys the fiancé’s sister a drawing tablet that hasn’t been released yet WITH custom designs on the hardware as an early birthday present that he gives her AT the fiancé’s birthday party??? Could we be less obvious lmao

I hate Eleanor

How am I supposed to feel sympathetic for a character who, when presented with 3 options and didn’t know what any of them meant, picked one at random and got upset when it wasn’t what she wanted?? Like you could have just asked for details until you understood??

There’s nothing that will convince me otherwise that this wasn’t a cathartic writing exercise for Hoover and that she wrote a “dark romance” because that’s what’s popular (it’s not even dark romance but that’s what it feels like she’s going for)

You’re telling me that the rest of this beast of a book is in THE PAST??? (Except for the last chapter and the epilogue)

“She would have liked the luxury of having a mental breakdown” girl SAME

“Did Canada even have universities?” PLEASE I will not stand for this slander 😭

“Sticky slit” …. Sticky slit?!?!?!!?? No thank you

Lowkey getting kinda bored with this but it seems like maybe things are about to pick up

"Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all." Why is this line not spoken about more lmao

“The mind doesn’t waste time being scared of things that don’t matter” bro’s never heard of anxiety

I'm really enjoying the world building in this one, so I'm very hopeful!!

“I’m gonna process this shit, and then I am gonna give you a manly hug” is an iconic and hilarious line for a hockey player to say to the captain who just came out as gay lmao

Stanley cup?? So it IS the NHL?? So my comment about the 5 min penalty is valid!!