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I like books that leave me either pacing around my room, questioning reality or sobbing on the bathroom floor at 3am

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Dark Academia
Level 4
Found Family in Fantasy
My Taste
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
The Starless Sea
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
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The Spear Cuts Through Water
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Sangu Mandanna

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roxpaperscissors commented on thehobbit's update

  • The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
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    Honestly, if my name were Terracotta Nowhere, I'd feel murderous one hundred percent of the time, too

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  • roxpaperscissors commented on natisnotonfire's review of Masters of Death

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  • Masters of Death
    natisnotonfire
    Mar 24, 2026
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    Enjoyment: 1.5Quality: 1.5Characters: 2.5Plot: 1.0

    the first third of the book was super interesting and i wish the story stayed focused on the ghost and vampire realtor plot. however too many characters ended up being introduced, and the plot became way too convoluted and half-baked making it hard to follow along. i don't mind a book that's more vibes than plot (ily the starless sea) but this didn't even deliver on having an intriguing setting or characters with something to say. i also found the writing tedious and confusing, and i frequently had to re-read paragraphs to try and decipher which character was speaking.

    and the whole concept of "the game" just. didn't make sense. when i finally got to the part where they were playing the game, i was mentally checked out of the book but i was too far in to DNF it, so maybe that's on me for not understanding whatever the game was supposed to be, but also maybe that's on blake for not grabbing my attention enough to make me care to understand.

    in favor of the book, the cover design and illustrations inside are beautiful. i like the table of contents and the overall stylization going on. unfortunately i disliked the story so much that i will be passing on my copy of the book because i have no intention of rereading it or recommending it to others.

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  • The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
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    Did anyone else think Jamie was another old guy when they introduced him in the earlier chapter? Haha

    I was so confused for a moment when they describe him through Mika’s eyes as devastatingly handsome when she meets him.

    Also…

    “Considering the scowl, she thought it was downright impolite of him to look as good as he did.”

    …I can sense the romance brewing a mile away! LOL

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  • The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
    Thoughts from 20% (page 117)

    I love how Suzanne writes Snow's character. Despite seeing things from his POV (even that only sort of since it's third person) and seeing that he hasn't really had it easy, you can't really bring yourself to feel sorry for him cause he's such a horrible person even as a teenager it's no wonder how he became such a tyrant in the main trilogy.

    It's so interesting how literally everything he does is self-serving, even when he does he does something nice or makes a (seemingly) nice gesture he does that either because it benefits him as well or somebody else pushed him in that direction. Like his attitude towards Sejanus or Lucy Gray, the only reason he's somewhat nice to either of them is to maintain his public image or win a prize. And even so, Tigris is the one that has to keep encouraging him to treat Lucy Gray with even the slightest amount of decency cause he keeps forgetting she's an actual human being and not an object he owns. I hate him so much, he's such an opportunistic pos

    Not even once has he actually tried to empathise with someone else no matter how many chances he gets, the first and oftentimes only thing he feels towards other people's suffering is revulsion. It's so sickening how easy it is for him along with the vast majority of the Capitol to dehumanise the people from the districts, how offensive they find the thought that they could have anything in common with them, much less be equal to them.

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    Simon Jimenez

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