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emsie

✨️🎀 I'm from Italy and i love all type of books but romance, thriller and fantasy are my favorites! 🎀✨️ | 29 | INTJ | virgo, gemini rising

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Every Villain is a Hero
Romantasy Starter Pack Vol I
Fantasy and Sci-Fi with a Side of Romance
My Taste
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
Reading...
The Shards
31%
Love Unwritten (Lakefront Billionaires, #2)
20%
1984
0%
Sinful Hearts (Dark Hearts, #3)
30%
Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)
28%
Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)
0%
Water Moon
19%
Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal
34%
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
6%
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)
12%

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  • Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
    Thoughts from 3%

    All the people amazed from the "novelty" of this book are clearly ignorant of asian novels 🤦🏻‍♀️ this kind of "extraterrestrial apocalyptic games" are well known and old. Like the first thing that came to my mind is ORV (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint) 😐✨️ Sooo the start feels flat for me, nothing new but we will see... even if i can already feel the rugged westerns vibes of macho man irradiated from this story. I hope to be surprised and to have a good experience with the book even if at the moment I feel like i won't be super amazed. To explain it easy is like if you know Star Wars and they give to you as a "new idea amazing plot and etc" a Simpsons episode who clearly is about Star Wars but with little differences, things more "Americans".

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  • The White Book
    emsie
    May 08, 2026
    The White Book
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    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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  • Carry On (Simon Snow, #1)
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  • Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)
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    Bret Easton Ellis

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  • The Shards
    Thoughts from 16% (page 96)

    The book has a really slow start but it's interesting, I'm waiting for the disturbing and nauseous parts everyone talked about 🏃🏻‍♀️✨️ the protagonist it's clearly an unreliable narrator and an horrible kid 🙅🏻‍♀️ and i don't like any of the characters for now (but it's ok, the book is made of the snob and "dark" élite of the '80). What I'm confused about (and that's an unpopular opinion) is why Ellis LOVES to describe teenager girls bodies in such a sexualised way and their s3x scenes so graphically (and he doesn't do the same with the boys so it's clearly not for the sake of realism). Like i know bro you're sexist (and you probably think you're writing for a man only audience) but... you know, it's showing even when you try to pretend it's not (and btw sorry but it's always strange when a grown man put useless graphic scenes of s3x between kids). And yes, yes...I KNOW his books are the opposite of morally correct in general but you know, i can't not notice this things. Some say his writing is satirical but I like to disagree and put myself with the other side that just admits his obvious sexism. — And btw he should have cut short some scenes/parts because it slow down the pacing too much. I understand the putting up the setting but sometimes it feels like blabbering for the liking of blabbering while taking himself too seriously.

    Ps. I know he is bisexual but that doesn't preclude the possibility of him being a sexist man 👋🏻✨️ (and in some interviews he even stated that yes he is sexist)

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