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readbyrebekah

Oct 04, 2025

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0

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i quite enjoyed this! it’s a cute, quick romance story about loving yourself, loving others, and loving why you do. there was never a moment where the pacing was dragging (at times, it was too fast) and i loved the writing style

i do think the plot was extremely predictable, and Eli very predictable/same-y however i didn’t really mind this because there’s so much more to this book than just the romance!!

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NEW OLIVIE!!??!

stumbled across this when searching for ebooks- olivie summer is back another year!!

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Thoughts from 41% (page 158)

i have a feeling that this third act conflict will be Eli publishing the ‘bad’ article but didn’t tell Peter. it he gets annoyed that Eli really was faking it?

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caait

Oct 01, 2025

3.0

Enjoyment: 1.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 0.5Plot: 3.0

I thought OB's debut to horror wasn't coming until the end of the month 🤪 The 1 star enjoyment is for Bryn and the 0.5 star characters is for the 50% of the time I could stand Sasha.

Realistically: It was fine, solid writing. I don't think it was her best work by any means and I don't like Romeo and Juliet 🤷‍♀️

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Thoughts from 20% (page 78)

this book is so cute!! and that was an abysmal first date i could t help but find it funny tbh

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readbyrebekah

Sep 29, 2025

5.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

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i don’t even know how to rate this, so you can have some bullet points instead of my coherent thoughts written in a review (it was this or an essay or nothing)

i don’t know how this was ever a wizard school fanfic
it’s like poetry- it rhymes
i’m not okay
the tension in this is eccentric. if you hate tropes, there’s none to be found. if you love tropes, theyre littered everywhere (it’s very hard to explain)
the rereads on this will be immense
HELP
this is forced proximity done correctly
i fear i may be unwell

SenLin is an absolute masterpiece for world building, character dynamics, political intrigue and just…gripping you. this is my first read over like, 600 pages and that was simply immense. i blitzed through it without even realising- it had me hooked in a morbid way from the very beginning, and that all unravelled as we went through three parts. this was very nearly a 4 stars just because part two is…very long and part three is…very short, but it couldn’t have been done any other way- this is a power story of love, faith, belief, and certainly not for the faint hearted.

and the last line? i hate absolutely everything, oh my god 🫠

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Thoughts from 9% (page 93)

Getting through the first few chapter was a mission, Anyone else felt the same way?

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Thoughts from 30% (page 310)

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