I love how much exposition is baked into this. None of it feels like it's being squeezed in for the sake of the reader.

I also really like the cleaning journal entries at the end of each chapter. They're relevant, but from an utterly different perspective, and I find it helps wrap the chapters up nicely.

The world building in this is so friggin' good so far. I love it.

Last day of MAY✨🤪 what was your favorite book you finished this month?

With how often I dnf books, I wanted to pick your brains on the criteria you have established for yourself.

Edit* most replies didn't follow the format I had my questions so I'm just gunna leave it like this so it's easier to read 😅

What is something you wish authors would stop doing when writing FMC's or MMC's?

For me, giving all the MMC's shadow powers. Bler I want to see something else!

Happy Pride month lovely people 🫶 I hope everyone who is apart of the lgbt+ community knows they’re so loved and appreciated! And to my fellow people who aren’t fully out/closeted you’re just as important and I hope you’re able to have a wonderful month (and life 🫶) Do you have any specific plans for this month? Or any reading goals for this month? I’m hoping to read as many books as possible on my pride shelf!

So there was a post today asking if books make you cry? It was a great question and I loved reading all the answers! My follow up question is: what is the last book that made you cry? For me it was The hail Mary project and Before the coffee gets cold! Both completely different books that made me cry first completely different reasons! Alo highly reccomend them both!

Do you have any book-inspired tattoos? If so, what?

Hey everyone ☺️ I was wondering if anyone had any book recommendations for kids around the age of 10? It’s my little cousins birthday and I’ve been trying to get her into reading more so thought it’d make a great present!

Being 33 and childless however means I’m a little out of the loop of what’s cool these days 🤣 I was thinking something fantasy based

I went to a private school until 4th grade, and then I transferred to a public school. At the private school, we were not allowed to read above our grade level, so I would only mainly check out joke books and the I Spy books. Not really books you can read.

When I moved to a public school, as long as it was in the library you could check it out. I picked up my first chapter book. Small Steps by Louis Sachar. This was a sequel to Holes following the character Theodore "Armpit" Johnson. Had I read Holes before reading this book? Nope! (In fact, I wouldn't read Holes until high school for an English class. Don't ask me why, cause I have no idea why 9 year old me would just pick up random books without finding out if they were part of a series.) Anyway, I loved this book so much. It made me realize how much fun it was to read.

So I'm just curious, have you always been a reader? Or is reading a more recent hobby? Do you come from a family of readers?