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I’m just a girl standing in front of my bookshelves asking them to give me more free time to read them. 28, UK, she/her. Timber class, 🍎🍃🪵

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My Taste
Illuminae: The Illuminae Files 01
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
The Gunslinger
The Truth
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong, Vol. 1
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    Sep 04, 2026
    Aurora's Edge
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    Enjoyment: 1.0Quality: 1.5Characters: 1.0Plot: 1.5
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    The blurb paints an entirely different picture to the contents of this story. The plot and pacing are simplistic and heavy-handed, included a villain wrap up montage to ensure that everyone is following along well enough. Huge conflicts brought about by, again, incredibly heavy handed prejudices are solved in a matter of sentences. If three quarters of the book is pure hatred for the opposing side of the war, it cannot be resolved entirely in one conversation after spending a cumulative maximum of fifteen minutes in contact together. The plot suffers due to the inclusion of a saboteur as it removes any chance of character interaction or even seeing more about Elara rather than being told she’s amazing at engineering, the reader could’ve been shown more.

    The character relationships need some serious spacing out as well as Elara (FMC) considers another character her younger sister (and therefore incapable of making her own decisions as an adult due to ✨trauma✨) after fifteen minutes of contact during which the other party was blackout drunk for three quarters of it.

    While the book is marketed as Young Adult, there’s enough sexual themes included to bump it up the range slightly, and anybody and everybody in Elara’s range is thought about sexually within three seconds of meeting them except the two who as it turns out are linked to her parents.

    I was also going to count but ‘said’ is horrendously underused throughout the story. If every dialogue tag is a specialised one, it’s noticeable and breaks up the flow of the story.

    Thank you to the author and the publisher for the ARC!

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    Mouth to mouth isn’t a kiss!! There must be a list somewhere with amount of books that keep making this take

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