nadia | notabookshelf’s Reviews > The Long Game > Status Update

is it okay if i just skip the outing/metros chapters bc it makes me feel icky i dont like that i Dont want it ugh

love nitpicking this because saying that ilya saw a lot of stray dogs growing up in moscow means he likely lived in non-elite suburbs in a private house and/or hung out outside the city bustle a lot. especially in the 00's moscow had very strict and particular campaigns to reduce stray dog populations so this is an interesting context if you want it to be

once again from the discourse ive been seeing i thought their conversation before the plane was some unclear bitter thing that left them both hanging. but it very much was not. like theyre on the same page about needing to talk and shane proposing after this is not too far-fetched. god i rlly should stop trusting what people say online lmao

ilya getting repeatedly tortured by visions of his dead mother in his sleep while shane dreams about getting fucked by ilya on center ice oh shane hollander i am obsessed with your beautiful mind

ilya is going through stuff for sure and shane is being very stressed and understandably dismissive its true but why am i feeling like theyre facing horrors beyond comprehension. like this is just regular relationship crisis things and theyre faring much better than most. calm down @ me

most amusing so far about the whole HR arc of my life is the fact that i so seriously do not read romance that i don't even have a shelf for it and i never have. i read it in fanfiction but as a print book it's gotta be a regulated substance-enhanced ordeal for me to latch onto. oh canada