Let the record show this is the first time a man has spoken in the book (men have been mentioned, like fathers, but there has been no man "on screen") and it was jarring 😂 it was very blissful without them, I didn't even notice there weren't any men until this guy

Was thinking to myself how I have this ridiculous habit of intentionally speeding through book blurbs trying not to learn too much, leaving a book on my TBR for ages, starting to read it going off the memory of the blurb, and then being completely thrown by what the book is actually about because I realize I didn't actually know. Case in point: started the castle knoll files series today, DEAD CERTAIN the MC was an old male detective. It is about a 25 year old girl and her kooky aunt. This is abundantly clear in the blurb and I have no idea how I misremembered that badly. I spent the first 20 pages going "oh? Oh?? Oh!" So anyway, that got me thinking, do any of y'all have reading quirks like this that are ultimately harmless but kind of weird? A beige flag, if you will?

ahhh…….. im loving it. i’m starting to see toxic jealous sabine and honestly i’m here for it. never in my life do i think i would enjoy a book with a toxic man but toxic lesbian vampire is 100% amazing. also as a side note. there is a very cute witch named melody (who idk if we will see again, i hope we do). i’m hoping schwab will write a witchy book with her character.

Ngl, I thought I was going to DNF the book cuz ppl said it’s like Babel(which I DNF’d in February💀), but I was pleasantly surprised 😃 Might actually start giving dark academia a chance after this Also, I love Sciona and Thomil ☺️

"it's mostly following directions. you're a kwen, right? you know how to do that?" sexism aside, i really, really enjoy how complex of a character sciona is. she is obviously very bright, intelligent, and driven, but her elitism and how she looks down on the kwen ethnic group cuts through, from the comment above to her thoughts about how they were supposedly to blame for the blight. i look forward to the deconstruction of her assumptions as she gets to know the janitor

Digging how magic is a sort of coding language in this book. A refreshing twist!

oh this book is delicious

Already back for round 2! I read it a couple months ago and decided to listen to the audiobook this week to prep for book club. Very interested to see what jumps out to me in this different version.

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Ok let's goooooooo 💃🏻🕺🏻 I'm excited to read this one, Schwab is a hit or miss for me, loved the Vicious/Vengeance books, but hated the Darker Shade books, loved Addie Larue, so I have my fingers crossed I'll love this one too!