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Just read the first 50 pages and am Aggravated by the publisher description. First of all colleen Hoover meets the seven husbands of some lady???? No….. also the entire plot seems mis described. It’s a good book I’m sick of this marketing trend.

I wanted to read something stupid and vapid, but this is next level stupid 🤷🏻‍♂️ oh well

What is it about this book? I just...... don't care about these people at all!

the parts about troop movements are awful, the parts about soviet and chinese machinations are interesting. mixed bag.

every other year I read this book in two days and get super emotional.

Damn this book is horny. Not what I was expecting

This one is reeeaaaaaally dragging for me.

rereading this one, I continue to love it

I’ve read two chapters of this and.......... god I cannot omfg

I was unprepared for how much this is about people grieving the loss of a parent. As someone who lost a parent (well both, but not in the same way) at a similarly young age, it is challenging reading.

ugh, talks sooooo much about Weber

I cannot stress enough how upsetting I find this cover/spine design. It is actively disturbing to me. I keep staring at it like “is this an anagram? Is this supposed to mean something?” If not, why is it like this? Just to mess with people?

Another ABSOLUTE CLUB BANGER

I love this goddamn book so much

I had this book on my to read list because I remembered... someone... recommending it to me? But now I can't find any evidence of that? I am absolutely hating this book

Put this on holy from the library, unsure why. idk somebody must have recommended it? I don't usually enjoy Kleypas? idk I'm bravely giving it a try.

I am loving this book SO much. Jackie Lau’s books pretty much always work for me, but this one is great. Valerie is so prickly and damaged, and tender, she’s frustrated and she wants better for herself but can’t seem to get there. Peter is so fucking NICE. Peter loves love, and he’s excited about falling for Valerie. It’s a great dynamic.

Not really a ton in the way of plot, or much in the way of character development. They're horny! I get it!

Also, this is so trivial, but like, this book was published in 2018 and "gourmet cupcakes" are like..... really prominent. Gourmet cupcakes were over and done with by 2014 at the latest. This is driving me NUTS.

ahahahaha so fun so fun so fun I love wuxia storylines

still unclear if this is YA historical fiction or just regular historical fiction. I totally thought it was genre fiction, which was why I'd wanted to read it. Probably fine if you prefer Serious Historical Fiction about Issues.

well now she's talking a LOT about christianity

literally the exact plot twist that I expected from like...... the very beginning. smh. also like, the fucking treaty thing omfg

wow these characters are FUCKED up!

Agatha Christie is such an annoying conservative, and this book really puts her politics on display, BUT the way she writes the American is hysterical

really some of the least appealing descriptions of sex I have read in quite some time

A reminder of what a fuckin fash Agatha Christie was

“Frost-killed earth” the phrase so nice she used it twice

Goddamnit why did she have to refer to his sick as “hard meat”???!!!?!!!?!! Really challenging stuff.