natalie
yet another fictional male to set my expectations too high. i am literally never going to date anyone at this point
the three stars are for the second half of the book which was actually entertaining and didn't make me uncomfortable by the unnecessary descriptions for a 16 year old girls boobs that a GROWN MAN wrote.
at first i was like “it's written from the perspective of a teenage boy, of course he'll have those thoughts.” and i really tried to understand that but i was literally so uncomfortable...
i don't see female authors writing about the way a teenage boys penis looks in his pants, do i?
(idk maybe some do but that's weird so stop)
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“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself was a bad dream.”
★★★★☆
first of all: WHY DID YOU END IT LIKE THAT? THAT CLIFFHANGER? i need to read crooked kingdom before i start the third book but now i'm too invested in this series to wait.
there were so many plot twists and i was confused but the author does a really good job at making things clear. when being introduced to a new idea, she explains it very well.
this book is pretty fast-paced, but that might just be because it's an ebook and i tend to read ebooks quickly.
as much as i wanted patch and nora to be together in this book, i was very satisfied by their last moment because you can see that patch truly does care about nora, even if it wasn't supposed to happen.
also, fuck you rixon you dirty goat cheese flubnubber trash can stinker smelly bean burrito big boy hooligan fat bat penis fat headass. ugly. dumb. stupid.
“I've been tricking myself, thinking there was some reason for all of it, thinking that consciousness was a miracle when it's really a burden, thinking that to be alive was wondrous when it's really a terror.”
oh my god.....
there were so many plot twists that had me literally say “oh my god” or “what?” out loud. this was very well written and i am excited to read the second book.
but first... let's talk about patch.
anne carson once said:
“why are you full of rage? because you are full of grief.”
and i think of james when i read that quote
✧ 2023 reading goals ✧
• complete my reading goal (44/35)
• read more nonfiction (2/10)
• read more from my physical tbr (21/20)
• listen to more audiobooks (6/10)
books i really want to read
• babel
• the night circus ✓
• nevernight
• utopia avenue ✓
• scythe ✓
• a winter's promise ✓
• strange the dreamer ✓
• aurora rising ✓
series i want to start
• the raven boys (4/4) ✓
• acotar (2/5)
• the mortal instruments (1/6)
• the poppy war (1/3)
• the nevernight chronicle (0/3)
series i want to finish
• caravel (2/3)
• folk of the air (3/3) ✓
• harry potter (4/7)
• a darker shade of magic (2/3)
key
physical tbr (
lame... little to no worldbuilding, dull plot, going from “rivals” (barely) to being married within what seemed like a couple months.
remind me to stop reading what's trending because booktok has terrible taste
crazy how some of you bitches hate holden caulfield but then preach about mental health awareness