Zana’s Reviews > An Arcane Inheritance > Status Update

"But political science would keep the lights on in her apartment. Journalism would only give her four roommates all sharing the same fork over the last bowl of ramen for years before she had a spare dime to put in her savings account."

Girl just double major! Jesus

Oh boy another dude's asking the FMC out to dinner. Cue the love interest being jealous!

"She had a complicated relationship with therapy, something her aunt believed in even less than she believed in community college. Those pills aren’t natural, Carol always said."

Damn auntie!!

'“Are your parents dead?” Greer gasped, a hand coming up to cover her mouth. “Was it gun violence?”'

Just bc the FMC is from Jamaica omg

This is the part where the FMC unknowingly walks into the hot and mysterious love interest's bedroom during a house party bc his bookshelves are stacked and then he randomly shows up to interrupt her creeping. Fucking kill me 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

"It must have been more of a symbolic wound, the knowledge every immigrant kid had that there were only about four career paths that would make their parents and guardians proud. Journalism would never be one of them."

Doctor, lawyer, engineer but what's the fourth one??

"Their precious baby, sent abroad for a better life, excelling only up until America put a snowballing price tag on excellence."

So if she didn't get the scholarship she'd have to pay international student tuition? Wtf

"His eyes were mockingbird black. His skin was golden brown in the caress of sunlight. His rose-pink lips held the raw ingredients of a smirk without quite finishing the recipe."

Omg I can't with this

'“You want me to tell your parents that they entrusted you to my care so you could end up at a community college?” she’d said, her hand over her heart like a scandalized Puritan.'

Damn auntie!!

"His ombré fade had been freshly touched up since the weekend, his curls dyed white gold and cresting over his forehead like whitecaps frothing against a stormy sea."

Going full-blown romantasy author with this description, I see