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lilymunster666

I love a good fantasy, litfic, dystopia, or historical fiction. I love some good worldbuilding and I think I have elite taste

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Reading...The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)
My Taste
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
Hell Followed With Us
Between Two Fires
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
Babel

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  • The God of the Woods
    lilymunster666
    Jun 27, 2025
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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    Wow. What a page turner. The characters: incredible. The plot: wonderful. No stone was left unturned. It left me guessing so hard and now I love Whodunnits. I need moreeeeeeeeeeee.

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  • A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes, #2)
    lilymunster666
    Jun 25, 2025
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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    I love this book. I hope Keris gets her ass kicked in the next book.

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  • lilymunster666 completed their yearly reading goal of 50 books!

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    lilymunster666's 2025 Reading Challenge

    41 of 50 read
    Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
    Hell Followed With Us
    Between Two Fires
    A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
    Babel
    Fable for the End of the World
    Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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  • The Secret History
    lilymunster666
    Jun 25, 2025
    2.0
    Enjoyment: 1.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 0.5Plot: 2.0
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    Yeah this was genuinely so ass to me. This is like peak fake intellectualism. Using a lot of words to not say anything new, interesting, or smart.

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  • The Secret History
    Thoughts from 80%

    IM TRYING TO CHUG THROUGH THIS. GENUINELY. I'm trying so hard to just get this done so I can meet my goal. This is so painful to get through. I genuinely don't care about anything that's happening. I'm reading other books as chasers so I can get through this final stretch. I am too deep in and I just want to finish it and never touch this again. I will forever hate this book. I don't even feel like giving this a 3 star. Genuinely, the prose isn't even impressing me enough to give it that. This might just be a 1 star because of how painful this is. I usually only give 1 star to truly terrible books that did their jobs terribly. Things like Iron Widow. But this is genuinely so painful to get through to the point I'm checking the chapter numbers to see how much I have to read until it's over. Ursula K. Le Guin has such wonderful prose to the point that she could write about an average man's daily life and I would be invested. This is such a snoozefest that not even the prose can make me want to continue this. This reads like someone reading out loud a county newspaper in a monotone voice. Genuinely.

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  • Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
    lilymunster666
    Jun 24, 2025
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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    Yay? I'm happy I finally finished this and I'm also so intrigued to finally know how things end. Fully I mean. Gale you are a punkass bitch. Loved this book!!!

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  • The Secret History
    Thoughts from 75% (page 421)
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  • The Secret History
    Thoughts from 80%

    IM TRYING TO CHUG THROUGH THIS. GENUINELY. I'm trying so hard to just get this done so I can meet my goal. This is so painful to get through. I genuinely don't care about anything that's happening. I'm reading other books as chasers so I can get through this final stretch. I am too deep in and I just want to finish it and never touch this again. I will forever hate this book. I don't even feel like giving this a 3 star. Genuinely, the prose isn't even impressing me enough to give it that. This might just be a 1 star because of how painful this is. I usually only give 1 star to truly terrible books that did their jobs terribly. Things like Iron Widow. But this is genuinely so painful to get through to the point I'm checking the chapter numbers to see how much I have to read until it's over. Ursula K. Le Guin has such wonderful prose to the point that she could write about an average man's daily life and I would be invested. This is such a snoozefest that not even the prose can make me want to continue this. This reads like someone reading out loud a county newspaper in a monotone voice. Genuinely.

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  • The Secret History
    Thoughts from 67%

    Dude. That review I read was right. There is really nothing to this book other than flowery prose. This is genuinely the worst. The prose is great. But that's really it. Prose alone doesn't make a 5 star book. Everything else has to back it up. And everything else is genuinely bad. The characters don't do anything. At all. Bunny and Henry are pretty much the only characters. Richard is barely interesting. He just seems like he's kinda there. Same with everyone else. Bet you didn't care about anyone else huh? Exactly. And the setting and mood is great. But there is nothing all that great about this. The plot is pretty mid ngl. I read the rest beyond this point on Wikipedia and I'm shocked that this is all there is to the book. That's it. That's all. Side note, yeah this book could lose about 200 pages. We didn't need them. At all. Just a bunch of nothing. Also what is with the random racism?? We didn't even need that. That character and that entire plot line was pretty much meaningless. The message is already so obvious and clear. I seriously don't understand the point of any of this. Genuinely. I swear she just wanted another excuse to write the n-word with the r. Because who calls Arab people "Sand n-words"? Like are we deadass. What was the point of that? It was barely even an interesting or good message but surprisingly enough that's one of the few interesting things that happen in this overly long snoozefest. What a waste of a Libby loan!

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  • Never Let Me Go
    Thoughts from 9%

    Liking it liking it. The reveal is gonna be goateddddddd. People called this boring, how??? I don't see it. Secret History is boring but this isn't so far.

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  • Never Let Me Go
    Thoughts from 9%

    Liking it liking it. The reveal is gonna be goateddddddd. People called this boring, how??? I don't see it. Secret History is boring but this isn't so far.

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  • The Secret History
    Thoughts from 67%

    Dude. That review I read was right. There is really nothing to this book other than flowery prose. This is genuinely the worst. The prose is great. But that's really it. Prose alone doesn't make a 5 star book. Everything else has to back it up. And everything else is genuinely bad. The characters don't do anything. At all. Bunny and Henry are pretty much the only characters. Richard is barely interesting. He just seems like he's kinda there. Same with everyone else. Bet you didn't care about anyone else huh? Exactly. And the setting and mood is great. But there is nothing all that great about this. The plot is pretty mid ngl. I read the rest beyond this point on Wikipedia and I'm shocked that this is all there is to the book. That's it. That's all. Side note, yeah this book could lose about 200 pages. We didn't need them. At all. Just a bunch of nothing. Also what is with the random racism?? We didn't even need that. That character and that entire plot line was pretty much meaningless. The message is already so obvious and clear. I seriously don't understand the point of any of this. Genuinely. I swear she just wanted another excuse to write the n-word with the r. Because who calls Arab people "Sand n-words"? Like are we deadass. What was the point of that? It was barely even an interesting or good message but surprisingly enough that's one of the few interesting things that happen in this overly long snoozefest. What a waste of a Libby loan!

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  • My Dark Vanessa
    lilymunster666
    Jun 22, 2025
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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    Dude when I tell you this was fire. It was fire. God this was so good. I am so happy after all that trauma we finally got to see a rainbow. Also I am so happy to see a nuanced understanding of trauma and how it manifests. Especially sexual trauma. I know how during sex that is unwanted, the mind starts to dissociate and the victim may convince themselves that this was wanted because they didn't fight. And I also love how it shows that victims of sexual violence can sometimes put themselves in dangerous situations and actively seek things that remind them of the trauma. I overall love how nuanced this book is.

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  • The Secret History
    Thoughts from 67%

    Dude. That review I read was right. There is really nothing to this book other than flowery prose. This is genuinely the worst. The prose is great. But that's really it. Prose alone doesn't make a 5 star book. Everything else has to back it up. And everything else is genuinely bad. The characters don't do anything. At all. Bunny and Henry are pretty much the only characters. Richard is barely interesting. He just seems like he's kinda there. Same with everyone else. Bet you didn't care about anyone else huh? Exactly. And the setting and mood is great. But there is nothing all that great about this. The plot is pretty mid ngl. I read the rest beyond this point on Wikipedia and I'm shocked that this is all there is to the book. That's it. That's all. Side note, yeah this book could lose about 200 pages. We didn't need them. At all. Just a bunch of nothing. Also what is with the random racism?? We didn't even need that. That character and that entire plot line was pretty much meaningless. The message is already so obvious and clear. I seriously don't understand the point of any of this. Genuinely. I swear she just wanted another excuse to write the n-word with the r. Because who calls Arab people "Sand n-words"? Like are we deadass. What was the point of that? It was barely even an interesting or good message but surprisingly enough that's one of the few interesting things that happen in this overly long snoozefest. What a waste of a Libby loan!

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