Discuss

When we think of the word loss, we usually think of the death of somebody we care about.
But we don't often consider that loss also includes things like going through a divorce or watching our well-laid plans fall apart. So how do we navigate the grief that comes with those kinds of losses?
The first thing is to not avoid the grief. We need to allow ourselves time to grieve and realize that grief is actually a manifestation of something really beautiful.
It's a manifestation of the fact that we have love, but we don't have a place to put it.

This was so beautifully written, I never thought about grief in this way and it made me emotional 🥺🫀

they’ve trimmed so much of the weirdest (which i kinda loved) but left the g slur dangling in there like it was nothing 😭

Everybody wants to be the next Emily Henry but I think Kasie West has actually cracked the code with this one. The balance between contemporary romance and women’s literature is so finely tuned!

you all ever see a character that makes you go ‼️😁💗🫂, that’s me at juliet

I just want to hug Salama, the mental health issues she is dealing with because of the war are breaking me.

so i'm unsure whether this is a me thing since many of the reviews don't seem to mention it much but i just can't get over how frustrating this first person present narration is? sure, we get a lot of intimate and personal information from the characters themselves but the writing is just so boring and unoriginal?

someone please tell me either the story and suspense picks up or the writing starts to get better because i kind of need to read this (potential comp title for future manuscript query) and i genuinely don't know if i can make it through at this point 😭

The fear is building inside me, I feel like 2 terrible events are speeding towards me.

They’re the same!!! Oh my god, my heart

I like the unique approach to the enemies to lovers trope but so far, it's not doing it for me. Bits and pieces of the prologue and the first chapter were quite funny, but now I'm getting tired. Both Naomi and Nicholas seem like horrible people😅😅. All they need to do is talk things out but instead of that, they're just being petty for no reason. I'll keep reading though, hopefully the next few chapters change my mind.

Listen. I get it. "Shy teenager with no friends joins DND group" is a good trope, a great trope even. But in an anthology focused on DND, marketed to DND lovers, I have read wayyyy too many explanations of how DND works. I'm a DM, guys. I am SO familiar with what a ttrpg is. Please stop explaining it to me. 😭😭

The audiobook narrator is the only reason why Odile sounds remotely charismatic. This girl has a personality of a shoe box.

On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest, how much do we hate Cleon Renthorn? (btw I don't mind spoilers)

so eerie and chilling. a beautiful gothic setting with secrets and mysteries around every corner. looove!!!

Me & Evangeline are NOT friends

IM GOING TO BE SO FUCKING PISSED IF SOMEONE DIED HERE 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

this is so much more magical and plot driven than I expected! amazing so far, I love marigold so much already

god this book uses the word “howl” waaayyyyy too much i can’t