Ana is making this such a tough read. I didn't really get her in the first book and I feel like she's worse in this one. I know it's never said literally that she is autistic, but she is quite clearly coded that way (as with Din and his dyslexia), and frankly it rubs me the wrong way as an autistic woman. I know she's supposed to be a Sherlock Holmes type savant in her powers of deduction, but the way she is constantly said to be 'snapping' at people and talking down to Din when he doesn't catch on, despite that literally being what SHE is hired for, not him. I just don't understand the motive she has for being so harsh. That's not what autism is.

I just finished a book that had two mistakes in it (one was using the wrong tense and one was where the main character’s name was spelled incorrectly). This is something that reeeeeallly irks me so I was curious to know how others feel! Are mistakes something you’re happy to glide over or does it bother you? I feel mean because it must be so hard and exhausting to write a book haha and I’m there like “this is in the wrong tense, ma’am” 🫣😂

What are books or series that you love but don’t get talked about enough?

I’d say my top two are The Infernal Devices trilogy by Cassandra Clare (prequel to the City of Bones series) and the Aloysius Pendergast series by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

First, The Infernal Devices series is suPERIOR to The City of Bones series - the characters are 1000000/10 and the romance??? I genuinely don’t have words for it. It’s one of my all time favorites and I love it so much it HURTS 😭

And the Aloysius Pendergast series makes me sound like an old man, but I love the thriller/mystery of them all and Pendergast is so fucking cool 🤩 Plus its 22 books and counting, not including the side character books, so you never run out of reading material 😂

I’m just about to book a surgery to be done in a months time.

And suddenly, to my complete surprise, I’m filled with an overwhelming sense of anxiety. Not for the surgery, that would be a fairly reasonable response
No. For the first time in my life, I’m trying to keep up with the reading streak and what am I going to do on surgery day 😭 what if I’m too out of it and can’t read? What if it lasts days!?

How would my fellow Boundlings solve this issue? Should I stay up until after midnight or get up extra early and try to get a few percent in? Do I succumb to my fate and just hope for the best? Email the team with a medical certificate and a bunch of crying emojis? More reasonably, should I upgrade to Royalty and request a Streak suspension for illness?