I‘m just being nit picky at this point, but the lunch date with Nash? High volume fryers don‘t heat up that quickly. And never in my life have I heard a chef refer to a fryer as a “restaurant fryer”. They just call it a fryer.
2 likes
I‘m just being nit picky at this point, but the lunch date with Nash? High volume fryers don‘t heat up that quickly. And never in my life have I heard a chef refer to a fryer as a “restaurant fryer”. They just call it a fryer.
I think we can all agree that Azriel was such a shitty chaperone because Cassian‘s sex life was the very very last thing he wanted to be responsible for.
“You don‘t have to understand my choices. You simply have to survive. I love you enough to bear the weight of your disappointment.”
Damn…. General Sorrengail really knows how to punch you in the feelings.
Getting close to last 100 pages. 😬 I‘ve skirted around enough spoilers to be nervous…
“Could have, but alas, they moved.” I swear, Tairn is my soulmate in another world. Sorry Sgaeyl. ✌️
When a main character is told not to do something stupid, you just know - something stupid this way comes. Photo Credit: @tangerine.eileen
“‘Love you too,‘ I mumble. Maybe this is why our parents never tell us anymore; it‘s too much like saying mud is dirty or the sky is blue.”
As I near the end of ACOSF my patience for what‘s going on with Eris is really slim. I groaned so loudly at the beginning of chapter 69 my SO thought I was injured.
Sooo, why not just leave the Harp in the Prison? If the goal was to keep it out of Briallyn‘s hands, they should have just left it there. The Prison was already well warded, with extra wards!
Pg 233! 😍 Though I knew from the beginning. Rhys doesn‘t need that much practice.
“Media, I think I have heard of her. Isn‘t she the one who killed her children?” - Czernobog
“A novel is always a long piece of prose with something wrong with it.”
I really need to read more Gaiman. 😇😈
Pretty sure Maas just retconned Elaine‘s achievement in ACOWAR. 🤨
pick🎧I don‘t think I‘ll ever get bored of a villain origin story. Though the ending was predictable, the mains were enjoyable enough that I didn‘t really care. Cath and Jest were so engaging.
pickThis book was described to me as the “Hallmark Christmas Movie” of the ACOTAR series. And that is a very apt description. Luckily, I‘m a total sucker for sappy, holiday themed movies and throughly enjoyed reading A Court of Frost and Starlight, even though it was mostly fluff. Very excited to read Nesta‘s character development in the next one. The tension between her and Cassian is giving chills! Photo Credit : Charlie Bowater
Fairytale, mythology, biblical allegory, and now Tchaikovsky? As far as retellings go, this was an interesting turn.
Big props to Maas for such a heart wrenching portrayal of PTSD. Reading it felt so real.
“Friends do not lick friends.” - Tam Hmm, I don‘t know, girl…
“I swear, these Calore brothers are trying to out-idiot each other.” - Cenra Cygnet
I laughed way too hard at this! But too true, Maven and Cal are each stupid in their own way.
pick🎧 While I appreciate the ever intensifying action sequences, to which Aveyard is clearly suited to writing, mental illness does not seem to be her strong suit. In particular, her portrayal of PTSD I found to be very lacking. Still a good book, but I do hope this improves with the next one.
“I hated feeling like a disobedient child.” There seems to be a pretty easy solution here, Feyre. 🤷♀️
Finally hopping on this bandwagon! Didn‘t realize that this was a fairytale adaptation, and I am a sucker for fairytale adaptions. 🤓
pick📖 Most of this series is a re-read for me, having read the first five books in HS/college. Fragile Eternity was a bit of a drag for me, but this one! I had forgotten that this was my favorite! Ani and Devlin are so compelling and fit so well together, the instant magnetism between them had me from the get go. Rae one the other hand… the trouple aspect seems a tad forced if you ask me.
pick🎧 As this story progressed, the author just kept getting better and better at writing fight scenes. Had I been sitting I would have been on the edge. However, in between the fight scenes things tended to drag. With the amount of information that needed dumping, things started to feel a little list-y, like reading a list of ships a la Homer. But overall it was enjoyable, and the ending… oh man did I scramble to start the next one.
pickThough not the most original story, the millennial quippy-ness (at one particular line I even paused the the audiobook to look up the age of the author) and the pace of the story kept me engaged throughout. Overall, Red Queen was a great way to occupy my mind while I worked and commuted, and I‘ll be following it up with the sequels.
panThe first thing that caught my attention was the cover. So pretty; the glass motif is very fitting for the content. But this is definitely a case that shows that judging a book based on its cover goes both ways. There are very few instances that I can think of where I have thrown a book while reading it, and this was the first time I did so out of disgust. Even the creeping feeling that I knew what Emory‘s third weapon was didn‘t curb my ire.
