Gillian Dowell > Recent Status Updates

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely?”

This is going to be FANTASTIC, innit?

Also, fancy as hell. Fancy, sophisticated, smart-people stuff. Each sentence packed-full of intelligence. Not a light read, thus far, by any means.

“I could practically hear the Lord whispering in my ear: ‘Be careful what you wish for, little lamb. You just might get it.’”

THIS ROCKS.

Successfully ragebaiting me—as is its intention.

“I’m so disciplined. I’m perfect. I’m the mother all kids want and the wife all men wish they had.” B*TCH, you have TWO NANNIES 🙄
“The women online that think my kids aren’t as perfect IRL as they seem online, we call them the Angry Women.” I’M SO VEHEMENTLY AGAINST CHILDREN BEING ON SOCIAL MEDIA, I’M GOING TO VOMIT WITH ANGER.

A+ tho 💀

Okay, Liska, I guess you’re better than me because I am NOT trusting this conveniently-orphaned, random-ass child 🙄

Uprooted meets Beauty and the Beast meets Polish Folklore

I am eating this uuuuuup 🤤

This is already one of the best Buddy Reads ever, and my buddy isn’t even reading it yet. Leigh Bardugo is THAT AUTHOR for me this year 💅🏻

“Life is an unruly child
we could never hope to control -
or at least not for long”

There have been bits of these poems stuck between my teeth for days. What a collection

“I was never truly lost nor forgotten
rather drowned by meaning and her miseries
forged in the furnace of some goddess gone rotten
engineered by angels falling in my peripheries”

STUNNING

“yet she is always there
wrenching upon my awareness
her body all but begging for attention
aching for my touch
all but ripping my heart from its flimsy cage”

Y’ALL, THE MEN WHO YEARN STILL WRITE POETRY 🙇🏻‍♀️

If I didn’t get to be Slytherin with all the fun adults that dangerously release trolls and cheat to win childrens’ sports games I would just die.

Okay, I’m gettin’ it. This is fun.

All this build up is KILLLLLLING MEEEEEE 😩

(I’m enjoying this sooooo much)

A bunch of pretty bisexuals getting themselves into trouble, but make it ✨ fantasy ✨ 💅🏻

Cassandra, baby, you’ve really outdone yourself with this one. Your YA books were great, but these characters being adults make this SO. MUCH. BETTERRR

THAT MAN BETTER BE WHO I THINK HE IS

Okay, I guess I’ll just never stop crying, then.

“Ilva was losing her touch. Or perhaps Helena was finally getting wise to her.”

Loooooooove when a book can make me THIS ANGRY

Stupid obsessed with this story. Staying up till all hours of the night just needing to know what happens next.

LOVE. LOVE. LOVE.

Btch, I’m gonna FREAK OUTTTTT

IS SHE STILL WEARING IT AND JUST DOESN’T KNOW IT!!?! I need to read faster 😩😩😩

“Nothing will happen to it. You have my word.”

Oh. Oh, OKAY. So this book is actually trying to kill me.

Monstrous. Insane. I can’t stop thinking about this.

Yeah, great writing, but I’m telling ya right now: ALLLLL THIS WORLD BUILDING BETTER BE SUUUUUUPER WORTH IT.

Duuude. This plot setup and the whole damn premise has the potential to make this one of the best romances ever for me. . .

I. Am. Dig. Ging. THIS.

I love it I love it I love it

One of my favorite reads in a loooooong time. This is excellent.

This is more like it 🤤

I have SO MANY complaints.

Baaaad pacing? 1-dimensional, non-fleshed-out characters?? Dumb words, dumb lines, forced dialogue, and too many moments that just aren’t believable—yes, even for fiction.

Might have to call it quits here.

. . . Okay maybe it’s not so bad 💀

Literally couldn’t hate this more. No tension, no angst, no chemistry.

Bought this one, though, so will prevail

Yeah, gonna feel this one where it hurts, I can already tell.

LOVE the way Jennette writes the hard stuff.

Unbelievably delicious

Audiobooks aren’t cutting it. Holding this baby in my hands and LOVING it already