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Nov 10, 2025

4.0

Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.5Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.5

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I struggled with this one, even switching between the audio and ebook. I enjoyed it overall, but I just felt confused for most of the story. The writing style made it hard to follow, and I wish I had known sooner that some people have been recommending a different reading order to avoid big jumps between timelines. I probably would’ve had an easier time following along.

There were some parts that hit emotionally, but I never felt fully invested. Maybe 1000+ page books just aren’t for me, because I found myself wanting to read something else during the last 50%. I was curious enough about the events and the ending to continue.

I appreciate the work the author put into this, but the writing didn’t feel particularly special, and I didn’t connect with any of the characters. The world-building was good, but I was lost with a lot of the terminology and felt like I spent more time Googling than actually reading. I’m glad I finished but I really thought this was going to be another 5 star read for me☹️

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Problematic Summer Romance

Ali Hazelwood

What is wrong meets what feels right in this romance set in Italy by the New York Times bestselling author of Deep End. Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him. It’s such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student; brother’s best friend and the girl he never even knew existed. As Conor loves to remind her, the power dynamic is too imbalanced. Any relationship between them would be problematic in too many ways to count, and Maya should just get over him. After all, he has made it clear that he wants her gone from his life. But not everything is as it seems—and clichés sometimes become plot twists. When Maya’s brother decides to get married in Taormina, she and Conor end up stuck together in a romantic Sicilian villa for over a week. There, on the beautiful Ionian coast, between ancient ruins, delicious foods, and natural caves, Maya realizes that Conor might be hiding something from her. And as the destination wedding begins to erupt out of control, she decides that a summer fling might be just what she needs—even if it’s a problematic one.

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SenLinYu SenLinYu

In this riveting dark fantasy debut, a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy—and the man tasked with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past. “What is it you think you’re protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There’s no one left for you to save.” Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner—of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed. In the aftermath of a long war, Paladia’s new ruling class of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers, whose vile, undead creatures helped bring about their victory, holds Helena captive. According to Resistance records, she was a healer of little importance within their ranks. But Helena has inexplicable memory loss of the months leading up to her capture, making her enemies wonder: Is she truly as insignificant as she appears, or are her lost memories hiding some vital piece of the Resistance’s final gambit? To uncover the memories buried deep within her mind, Helena is sent to the High Reeve, one of the most powerful and ruthless necromancers in this new world. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helena’s fight—to protect her lost history and to preserve the last remaining shreds of her former self—is just beginning. For her prison and captor have secrets of their own . . . secrets Helena must unearth, whatever the cost.

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I've read a lot of positive reviews of this book, and since it's just what I need, I believe I'm ready to read it right now. I assure you that I have plenty of tissues on hand because I know this story is somewhat heartbreaking.

I sincerely hope the story lives up to the hype. Who is reading this book? Or did anyone read this book? Warnings?

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BooksErgoSum

Nov 09, 2025

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I hated this book for (mostly) one reason: its terrible autism rep.

Arguably, this entire book is about autism. Emily Wilde is the 1909 version of a high-masking autistic woman. Her hyperfixation (faeries) drives the plot. Her hyperfixation journal is literally the text. And her trouble with social cues is the backbone of the story’s tension, the romance plot, and her character growth.

As a high masking woman who also has a hyperfixation journal? I loved her. I saw myself in her.

👉 But there’s another 1909 autistic character in this book: the changeling child.

The sad truth about changeling faerie lore is that those were just human kids with disabilities like autism. So it was a CHOICE to make the changeling child a villain. It was all about “fixing” him, unburdening his parents, and… literal child abuse 😵‍💫

And F all the way off with that. Because, as someone with a 7 year old nonverbal autistic daughter with eerie pattern recognition and a fae-like love of mischief, I just know some biatch named Emily would’ve been telling me she’s a changeling and to leave her under a tree if this was 1909 😤

So here’s my argument: if a book has good autism rep for socially acceptable autistic characters but bad autism rep for the truly marginalized types of autism in our society, then it’s actually terrible autism rep.

And the rest of the book didn’t save it for me. Because: ▪️ as much as I liked the overwrought navel-gazing of Emily’s journal, especially the interesting limitation it placed on the storytelling… we annoyingly dropped this limitation whenever we needed to. ▪️ as much as I liked that our love interest was kind of a shithead (lol)… chemistry and romance plot, where? ▪️ as much as I liked an anthropology of faeries, the story read 1940s Karl Popper science demarcation criteria back into 1900s science (👎) and didn’t recon with how racist social anthropology was in 1909 (her own university, Cambridge, was particularly bad 🥴)

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