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Powered by caffeine and questionable sleep ☕️✨ I love eerie beauty and worlds that vibe harder than they should 🌙 When I’m not lost in fiction, I’m worldbuilding or daydreaming during office hours🩶

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Sorcery of Thorns (Sorcery of Thorns, #1)
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Anna Karenina
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  • Annabel (Delirium, #0.5)
    femaelstrom
    Feb 02, 2026
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 2.0
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    I liked this, but considering how much I’ve been loving the main series, I had higher expectations for this novella, especially since it tells Lena’s mother’s story.

    Throughout Delirium, Annabel is cloaked in mystique through Lena’s eyes. She feels ethereal, almost otherworldly, defined by a love so fierce and absolute it borders on immortality. Immune to the cure, she is a constant source of tragedy but also of uncontainable, wild emotion. Bigger than life, unforgettable.

    Of course, once you step into her POV, some of that grandeur is bound to fall away. Seeing her as a real person, with flaws, fears, and doubts, was inevitable and even necessary. But even knowing that, I still expected more. More of her story. More of the ferocity of her love. More insight into where that intensity came from and how deeply it burned.

    Instead, the novella felt like viewing Annabel through a dirty, frosted window, close enough to see her shape but never clearly enough to truly see her and her story.

    It was good, don’t get me wrong. But I expected more.

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  • Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)
    i can’t believe it’s over

    i don’t think i’m ever going to recover from this.. read the last 20% on a plane ride and i was in fact bawling the entire time 😭

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  • Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
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    what is this dude's problem and why is he so funny

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  • A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1)
    Thoughts from 64% (page 268)
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  • A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
    Thoughts from 0% (page 19)

    i’m about to finally read the game of thrones series😫i’ve been dying to get my hands on this to read i’m extremely excited i absolutely love the show 😫time to binge readdddd

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  • Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)
    Thoughts on Aelin

    I’d love to hear your opinions on Aelin Galathynius! I am tandem reading EoS and ToD, and I’m about 75-80% done with both.

    I think she is LONG overdue for some pushback/someone from her court to call her out on all the plans she’s made behind their backs. She has become one of my least favorite characters in the series because of her arrogance (but that isn’t saying much because I still love everyone in the book lol), and I think a more mature Aelin will realize that allowing more opinions from her court will work in her benefit. She is really so young, but is truly the cockiest character I’ve ever read. I’d love to hear what everyone else thinks of her!

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