KelpieCersei

➴ ┊I am an 18 year old girl from England. ➴ ┊I am a college student studying healthcare, and I love reading fantasy.

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Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)

The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)

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ridiculous and trivial reasons why you dnf-ed a book

i'm currently reading a book i'm heavily not interested in, but i don't make a habit of not finishing a series i already started, esp if i'm already in book 2.

so it made me wonder: what are your pettiest reasons why you dnf-ed a book?

mine:

the author excessively used parentheses in almost every paragraph, and it irked me
the font is ugly
the book cover is ugly
the main character's name is ugly or they share the name of people i know in real life and i absolutely just can't read about it
typos, grammatical mistakes

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Collecting quotes and information

Fellow readers. I wanted to know if there’s a convenient method to collect information and quotes from a book. I annotate books but then I don’t have a well organised system where I can keep all the information or beautiful lines as I want. I used to write them down but it’s very time consuming and even though I still do that sometimes but I can’t seem to maintain this. So I was hoping y’all can give me tips and suggestions. I mostly read physical books and pdfs(I also read random articles from basically anywhere). Thankyou in advance

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A Treachery of Swans

A.B. Poranek

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I’m glad there is nobody around to hear how I am pronouncing these terms. Unfortunately French pronunciation isn’t my strong suit 🤣

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A Treachery of Swans

A.B. Poranek

An enthralling sapphic retelling of Swan Lake, for fans of Allison Saft and V.E Schwab.Magic has long been outlawed in Auréal. Odile has always known she’d be the one to restore it.Raised by a sorcerer, Odile has spent years preparing for the heist of a lifetime. It’s perfectly simple. Impersonate a princess, infiltrate the palace, steal the king's enchanted crown and restore magic to the kingdom.But when the King is unexpectedly murdered, she’s forced to recruit the help of Marie d'Odette, the real princess, and the two begin to unravel a web of lies and deceit that leaves Odile uncertain of who to trust.Soon though Odile must decide – her mission or the girl she’s falling for?The fate of the Kingdom depends on her making the right choice. . .

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Dance of Thieves (Dance of Thieves, #1)

Mary E. Pearson

When the patriarch of the Ballenger empire dies, his son, Jase, becomes its new leader. Even nearby kingdoms bow to the strength of this outlaw family, who have always governed by their own rules. But a new era looms on the horizon, set in motion by a young queen, which makes her the target of the dynasty's resentment and anger. At the same time, Kazi, a legendary former street thief, is sent by the queen to investigate transgressions against the new settlements. When Kazi arrives in the forbidding land of the Ballengers, she learns that there is more to Jase than she thought. As unexpected events spiral out of their control, bringing them intimately together, they continue to play a cat and mouse game of false moves and motives in order to fulfill their own secret missions. Mary E. Pearson's Dance of Thieves is a new YA novel in the New York Times bestselling Remnant Chronicles universe, in which a reformed thief and the young leader of an outlaw dynasty lock wits in a battle that may cost them their lives—and their hearts.

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House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)

KelpieCersei

Jun 09, 2026

DNF

0.5

Enjoyment: 0.5Quality: 0.5Characters: 0.5Plot: 0.5

DNF at 4% (pg. 32.)

Yeah, I am most definitely not the target audience of this book. I tried to force myself to get to chapter 5 for the promise that it gets better, but I don’t want to continue forcing myself through a book that I do not like whatsoever. Especially considering that it is an 800 page book.

Through the 2 and a half chapters I read, I was able to gather that this book will not get better for me. It’s not the case of it being the ‘start of the book syndrome’, I genuinely just don’t like it.

• I don’t like modern fantasy that involves technology. • It felt too much like teenage gossip for me, which was unbearable quite frankly. ’One, I think that It’s a hot name. And two, Reid is hot.’ no thank you.. This quote is what made me put the book down and hit dnf. • I don’t like the writing style overall, and I cannot enjoy a book if I do not like the writing style. • There was a whole lot of info dump that I immediately forgot about when I moved onto the next page. • The UK cover is created by generative ai, and it is hideous. It pains me to pick up this book and glance the ai cover. • I do not care for the characters we have been presented with, they’re already agitating me. • I just do not care for the story whatsoever.

So after thinking over all of the things that I don’t like about this book, I concluded that forcing myself through a few more chapters isn’t going to make me like the book any more. Also, forcing myself to continue will just make me more agitated, and in that case I will for sure not be enjoying the book any time soon.

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House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)

Sarah J. Maas

Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working hard all day and partying all night-until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. She'll do whatever it takes to avenge their deaths. Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. His brutal skills and incredible strength have been set to one purpose-to assassinate his boss's enemies, no questions asked. But with a demon wreaking havoc in the city, he's offered an irresistible deal: help Bryce find the murderer, and his freedom will be within reach. As Bryce and Hunt dig deep into Crescent City's underbelly, they discover a dark power that threatens everything and everyone they hold dear, and they find, in each other, a blazing passion-one that could set them both free, if they'd only let it. With unforgettable characters, sizzling romance, and page-turning suspense, this richly inventive new fantasy series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas delves into the heartache of loss, the price of freedom-and the power of love.

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Thoughts from 3% (page 25)

Oh, somehow It’s getting even worse. 😫

I don’t know, I don’t think I can make it to the fifth chapter. So far, I hate everything about this book. I hate the writing style, I’m sick of seeing the word ‘hel’ being used almost every sentence, I’m sick of seeing a curse almost every sentence, I realised that I do not like alpha and omega wolf stuff whatsoever, I do not care for the main character’s at all, I don’t like the modern technology..

Should I try one more chapter or just dnf it at this point? 😭 I found myself more occupied with the sound of the wind outside than this book. WIND. Wind had me more entertained than this book. And I also just skipped past the last two pages of chapter 2 because I couldn’t handle another 2 minutes of reading this book.

Ohhh god I had been so, so wrong when I said that I had a gut feeling that I would love this book. It’s somehow worse than acotar. Though maybe that’s an unfair judgement to make when I’m only 2 chapters in. But I can’t remember the last time I suffered this much to get through a book after only 24 pages 💔

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Thoughts from 3% (page 25)

Oh, somehow It’s getting even worse. 😫

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Thoughts from 1%

Someone please tell me this will stop sounding like gibberish and I’ll understand everything at some point😂

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House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)

Sarah J. Maas

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Thoughts from 1% (page 10)

So far, the first chapter has been a really bad impression on this book for me.

There was a lot of info dump that I immediately forgot about as soon as I moved onto the next page. Whilst writing this, I can’t actually remember what happened in the first chapter.

Also did sarah change her writing style? I genuinely don’t remember her writing style being this bad. God I hated it and it is really hard to read, and I’m only 10 pages in so far.. 🫣

I’ll try another chapter later. If I still find it unreadable by chapter 2, for my own benefit I’m just doing to dnf it. I don’t want to force myself through an 800 page page book if I hate the writing style 😭

Maybe It’s too early to judge? maybe chapter 1 is just a universal experience of being bad? I don’t know, I don’t remember a single thing that I read. That was a whole lot of info dump.

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Hemlock & Silver

T. Kingfisher

From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes Hemlock & Silver, a dark reimagining of “Snow White” steeped in poison, intrigue, and treason of the most magical kind. Healer Anja knows little of politics but much of poisons. When she is summoned to treat the mysterious illness afflicting the king’s daughter, she finds herself against the clock, desperate to track down the source of the poison killing Princess Snow. But the chance discovery of a strange alternate world inside a magic mirror leads Anja to darker discoveries, including what really happened to Snow’s dead sister, Rose, and why their mother seemingly went mad and cut out her heart. Aided by a taciturn bodyguard, a narcissistic cat, and a late Renaissance understanding of the scientific method, Anja must navigate the mysteries of the mirror world before the dark queen that dwells within rises to threaten them all.

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The Unicorn Hunters

Katherine Arden

With her country's future and her own life at stake, an orphaned duchess must journey into a world of myth and there discover a power that may be her salvation—or her demise—in this enchanting new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Winternight Trilogy and The Warm Hands of Ghosts. Anne of Brittany was a child when her realm was invaded, her home besieged, and her royal father driven to his death. Now her treasury is empty, her land occupied by her enemies, and she is ordered, under threat of renewed war, to become queen of her conquerors and marry the King of France. This marriage means her country’s annexation. But Anne promised her father that Brittany would never be conquered. Defiantly, she betroths herself in secret to France’s greatest enemy. But in a world where courts may spy on each other by magic, there is only one way to solemnize this illicit union. Anne takes her court deep into a legendary forest, where the court diviners’ skill cannot reach. The world thinks they are only a hunting party, coursing after unicorns. But that is a lie, a trick, a feint. No one in living memory has seen a unicorn. All Anne wants is this secret wedding, which is her only hope of salvation. But when against all hope a unicorn appears and a stranger out of legend stumbles from the trees and falls at her feet, Anne is plunged into a world of enchantment where a doomed sovereign might find the power to change her own and her country’s destiny—or be lost in the shadows forever.

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The Starving Saints

Caitlin Starling

From the nationally bestselling author of The Luminous Dead and The Death of Jane Lawrence, a transfixing, intensely atmospheric fever dream of medieval horror. Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months. Food is running low and there has been no sign of rescue. But just as the survivors consider deliberately thinning their number, the castle stores are replenished. The sick are healed. And the divine figures of the Constant Lady and her Saints have arrived, despite the barricaded gates, offering succor in return for adoration. Soon, the entire castle is under the sway of their saviors, partaking in intoxicating feasts of terrible origin. The war hero Ser Voyne gives her allegiance to the Constant Lady. Phosyne, a disorganized, paranoid nun-turned-sorceress, races to unravel the mystery of these new visitors and exonerate her experiments as their source. And in the bowels of the castle, a serving girl, Treila, is torn between her thirst for a secret vengeance against Voyne and the desperate need to escape from the horrors that are unfolding within Aymar’s walls. As the castle descends into bacchanalian madness—forgetting the massed army beyond its walls in favor of hedonistic ecstasy—these three women are the only ones to still see their situation for what it is. But they are not immune from the temptations of the castle’s new masters… or each other; and their shifting alliances and entangled pasts bring violence to the surface. To save the castle, and themselves, will take a reimagining of who they are, and a reorganization of the very world itself.

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I’ve had this book sat on my shelf for over a year now, It’s time I finally pick it up 👀

I’m excited to get back into the SJM universe! I’ll either start it today or tomorrow. I’ve read the blurb of this book and it sounds amazing! I have a feeling that I am going to really enjoy it.

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