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ALSO FUCK HAMMOND. Lex is so fucking annoying. I can't have kids. I would genuinely just abandon them when shit like this happens

Loving it. I love the organization. Takes a bit of brainpower. Not a simple easy read. Which I love. I love thinking. Beloved seems a little off. Idk tho. Maybe I'm just crazy.

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!

The bitch is BACKKKKKKKK!!! The downvotes on the last one were high. So yk I had to double it. 😝😝 Dude idk what's with this writing. All the pieces for good characterization are there, but they aren't put together in the right combination. So it makes for bad characterization. It's like a wonky puzzle with all the pieces in the wrong areas. If the author was a bit better at this, it would have smacked. Especially cuz it is missing some flavor that just can't be defined yk? Cardan is a fucking pompous dick. Cannot like this guy. Locke creeps me out. I was so freaking bored reading this book that I developed a new method of forcing yourself through a book. You repeatedly move your hand back and forth over the pages while reading and it helps keep your attention. At least for me. Anyway, it's a total snoozefest.

I'm a creature of habit, what can I say? We all have our vices. Some read smut, I reread Crazy Rich Asians when I need my soap opera drama fix. I watched the movie again and it had me thinking about the book which is WAYYYYYYYYYYYY more messy than the movie. And I'm a girl who loves mess and romance. But only this series can scratch the messiness/romance itch in my brain. Plus it helps that the dialogue is good and the plot is pretty good. I refuse to stoop lower than that. I still have my standards.

WOW. This is what yall were glazing????? It's so lackluster and down right bad at times. Not as bad as Fourth Wing. The writing is clunky. "Mom screamed. Jude screamed. Taryn and Vivi screamed." That line made me wonder if I was reading a kids book. I get it's meant to be childish. But childish doesn't mean terrible. And the worldbuilding, way to barely do it when it counts. You spend all that damn time with the dresses and ornate details in the house, but can't give a real detailed description of the magic forest???? Are you shitting me? I don't care about what the wood carvings are meant to look like if you aren't going to do any worldbuilding. And I am so thoroughly uninterested in the world already. And we just started. I'm just bored. I genuinely want to know what could possibly have warranted the hype. Genuinely. Maybe it comes later. But Jesus does it not deserve it so far. People on Booktok act like some books are the first books ever written and it has the same depth as the alphabet song.

This MC is absolutely unfunny in every possible way. I can't read millenial humor every single page and feel the urge to laugh. This reads like an Obama era YouTube skit turned book. But extended. So many jokes were being made to the point I can't even comprehend the world we are in right now. I'm being forcefed a joke every page. Please stop. It's only 8%. This better be a short read.