Status Update

Helena is 3% done

So, this is already a disappointment. I've noticed the huge difference between American authors labeling their books as "gothic" and literally everyone else. From the very beginning I could tell which one this would be. But I don't give up on books before 40-50%, so let's see.

— Apr 14, 2025 05:51AM

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Helena’s Previous Updates

Helena is 58% done

I will learn to be content with enough, and forget I was ever foolish enough to want more.>
Okay now, I didn't ask for tugging on my heartstrings 🙄

— Apr 17, 2025 11:18AM

Helena is 30% done

I still don't like it's American-ness and stupid wannabe poetic prose sometimes but the book is growing on me

— Apr 17, 2025 08:25AM

Helena is 12% done

"I often wake up with the taste of river water and blood in my mouth..."
Okay now you're just bullshitting me. "He smelled like radiated rain and chocolate sitting in the sun for 10000 years" type of shit

— Apr 14, 2025 06:55AM

Helena is 12% done

"I often wake up with the taste of river water blood in my mouth...."
Okay, now you're just bullshitting me

— Apr 14, 2025 06:53AM

Helena is 12% done

Abandoning the audiobook cause hearing the narrator read two page long footnotes makes me cringe and takes me out of the story every time

— Apr 14, 2025 06:40AM

Helena is starting

One horror about the creepy fucking house wasn't enough, ANOTHER ONE!

— Apr 14, 2025 05:12AM