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GIRL IT TOOK YOU 577 PAGES INTO THIS BOOK TO REALISE THAT TAMLIN TREATED YOU SOOOO BAD!!! BFFR
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okayyy just now getting the Wuthering Heights references: Heath is Heathcliff (dark, broody, misunderstood), taken in by Kat (Cathy)'s father. How Wuthering Heights can be translated to the skating world, I'm not so sure...
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hi everyone! As the owner of this quest, I want to keep us up to date with important dark academia releases. Let's use this thread to aggregate suggestions! Has anyone read a new dark academia release yet or have some on their TBRs??
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So Tonya Harding coded 👀 also, I was rollin with the romance but now that they are LEGALLY sort of siblings... I feel obliged to feel something other than supportive lol
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Grady mentions he hid a message within the first word of the first 14 chapters in his book. Although he tells us what the message is, I looked at the first 14 chapters of Beautiful Ugly and found a different hidden message. This was definitely my favorite easter egg! Also, if you haven't finished the book yet, I don't recommend doing this 😅
astral.projection finished reading and wrote a review...
Maybe Alice Feeney is just not my cup of tea - this is my second thriller of hers and both were underwhelming. Much like Rock, Paper, Scissors, Beautiful Ugly is slow for the first ~60%, gets wild for ~35%, and wraps up in a big infodump in the last 5%. I love a thriller where I'm gradually putting the pieces together throughout the story. This was more... "huh something creepy is going on, wonder what it is". And then getting all the questions answered in a series of monologues at the end. The premise was good, the way things unfolded was ultimately believable, and it was definitely original, so points for that. I wouldn't run to pick this up but it's a decent palate cleanser that you can whip through in a few days
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Whyyy lieeee grady I don’t understand why he wouldn’t just say he saw sandy?! Nothing shady happened??
astral.projection commented on a post
I was having a bit of difficulty getting into this so I started the eBook to read along and I am really not a fan of this narration - the whispers are so awkward 😬
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I get so annoyed when thrillers make the most insane excuses why phones don’t work - a fishing trawler took out the communications cable in the ocean floor?! Wut 😭
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hi everyone! As the owner of this quest, I want to keep us up to date with important dark academia releases. Let's use this thread to aggregate suggestions! Has anyone read a new dark academia release yet or have some on their TBRs??
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I know it's still a bit early but so far I'm not loving this book as much as I thought I would, a lot of characters were introduced at once which made it a little confusing, and just the overall story is not pulling my attention. I still have hopes it will turn around though!
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So far this is so much like Rock, Paper, Scissors by this author (read for the pagebound winter readalong) - the remote Scottish setting, the writer protagonist, the eery troubled marriage, a famous writer's getaway cabin... major deja vu.
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I'm in disbelief that chapter 1 was just 16 pages because I swear it took almost an hour to get through. Every other sentence I was taking notes trying to acclimate to all the different terms used and piecing together some understanding of the world and characters we have so far.
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Loved this book so much! Very much looking forward to The Strength of the Few. Hope everyone has a good time with the selections this season <3