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pay no attention to the fact i skipped past the released series volumes

The concept is intriguing, I just have a hard time swallowing V.E. all in one gulp. The setting and world is very well-built in the novels I've read, but it takes time getting there.

Listen, it's weird for me too. But this got me in a chokehold REAL fast.

For a whole second I panicked that this was being narrated in Scottish but I can't hold that against V.E. False alarm, I'll survive

I think this is a good "easy" read. I was hoping for a little more complexity with the relationship dynamic, but it's more GA than I write, I suppose 😅

I could write reviews for/input reading the entire “Twisted ____” series but each one of the four would be “Why did I do this”

“[My father] told me the expectations he'd carried, as a father, as a son, as a man, had sabotaged his relationships and prevented him from […] really enjoying intimacy, emotionally or intellectually, his entire life. Shocked at the depth of frustration and despair my dad had suffered, I listened and realized […] the masculinity I'd sought, the masculinity I'd been denied, had always been an impossibility.”

I’ve been waiting to read this for a few months now! As a non-binary person not raised with male expectations, which I’m now commonly met with in my adult life, I have a general experience as a “third party”. I do have less understanding as to how those expectations affect us as we’re growing INTO adults, so I’m pretty excited to read this anecdotal work.

Hmm, about a dystopian America “ruled by hate” in 2024, written in 1993. This one hurts.

Very jokingly mad that Goodreads had the audacity to recommend me something that is most assuredly going to make me regret some of my writing decisions.

I swear I still read, I just haven't sat and finished anything since January because writing -- and managing your writing business -- takes a Whole Lot Of Time!

This is my favorite so far, mostly because of world-building and the introduction of new characters. Sarah tends to put most of her main cast on hold for a fraction or two. I am a little weary of the rotating ‘heroine needs to earn ‘XYZ’ by enduring Violence’ trope. Bleh.

I am… afraid, to start this. 😂

You get a little tired of running into wall after wall of horny literature, but as a gothic horror this is very visceral. Very impressively written from that standpoint!

I have to return this in 2 days, and I’m like, “Am I gonna make it?” 😂🙃

my cousin threw this at me like 2 hours after i realized the internet is obsessed with this 👀

this took way too long to get into 🫠

Breaking my 34-day streak of reading fantasy because I was waitlisting on this for a Minute 🫠

Based on the cover, I am nervous about how many times Cardan is going to throw Jude into a body of water in this one.

Don’t talk to me, this is phenomenally better than the first one so far.

*sighs* Ah shit, here we go.

I started reading this because I heard there was a relationship dynamic similar to my favorite pairing from Harry Potter (cringe is dead, I am free). I have seen ONE spoiler that completely inverts the story as I currently understand it, so I have a very bad feeling this series is about to grab me by the neck. Violently, and until I have completed it.

I like to take breaks between horror novels, and I love these two.

FINALLY. SUBLIME HORROR CONTENT

This Was Not What I Was Expecting, but I am NOT mad