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Hollipeno

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Fall 2025 Readalong
My Taste
Gone Girl
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
Project Hail Mary
Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

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  • Fall I Want
    Hollipeno
    Nov 10, 2025
    2.0
    Enjoyment: 1.5Quality: 1.0Characters: 1.0Plot: 1.5

    Oh my god 🙄 I liked this for the first 40% then after they finally get together they are INSUFFERABLE. They start becoming robots and saying the same 3 things and fucking every page. It killed me

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  • I Who Have Never Known Men
    Hollipeno
    Oct 30, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.5
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  • Hollipeno completed their yearly reading goal of 5 books!

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    Hollipeno's 2025 Reading Challenge

    7 of 5 read
    Tender Is the Flesh
    I Who Have Never Known Men
    Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
    The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2)
    We'll Prescribe You Another Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #2)
    Fall I Want
    Chainsaw Man, Vol. 7
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    Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë

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  • Tender Is the Flesh
    Hollipeno
    Oct 28, 2025
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0
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    Hmm… 🧐 I’m not too sure how to digest this

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  • Tender Is the Flesh
    Thoughts from 49% (page 103)

    Marcos loves to talk about his sisters words lmaoo

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  • Tender Is the Flesh
    Thoughts from 40% - underwhelmed

    Yeah, maybe this just isn't for me.

    Not on a body horror level - because honestly, it's not that insane or descriptive of body horror. It feels as if I'm reading a meat processing how-to guide but they replace the word animal with human once every three paragraphs to keep you on your toes.

    This book is too much yet nothing at all at the same time. Bazterrica sacrifices actual stakes and growing tension for "shocking" imagery and fanciful prose. This book could be a great look at classism, environmentalism (though it does feel a bit like an aggressive way of promoting not eating meat/be against the meat processing industry - which needs revamping but this just feels pretentious af), and grief, but instead it's just too much talk with very little actual story or substance...

    Maybe it's just not for me (and the scene in Chapter 18 was unnecessary and took me waaaay out of the narrative)... Yeah idk, I'll finish it but it's not... outstanding to me.

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    Thoughts from 9% (page 19)
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    Thoughts from 8% (page 16)

    Having trouble with the prose atm 😓 I think it’s the third person, present tense that throw me off. Feels like a list being read off to me. Hoping I’ll get used to it

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