�� ༘♡ ⋆｡˚ “I hurt everyone, Little Fox. But you have to be alive to hate me.” His eyes iced over. “I do not want you dead, and I’ll kill anyone who tr
˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚ “I hurt everyone, Little Fox. But you have to be alive to hate me.” His eyes iced over. “I do not want you dead, and I’ll kill anyone who tries.”
my first five star in two months. this book was so magical and might have cured my book slump. i love evajacks. evajacks can cure me from any sickness. but evajacks can also break my heart and leave me like this:
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the hollow chapters.
“I mean … it’s just one night,” he said softly. “In the morning, you can forget it. You can go back to pretending you don’t like me, and I can pretend that I don’t care. But for tonight, let me pretend you’re mine.”
the way they tended to each other’s wounds. the most intimate thing two people can do for each other in books. left me absolutely speechless and on the ground sobbing.
and the ending?? omg i’m absolutely ruined, my heart is broken, and i am out for cold blood murder. i ride at dawn.
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She’d let him crush her, let him break her, just as long as he never let her go.
She meant to say, For tonight, I’m yours, but all that came out was “I’m yours.”
“It hurts, Jacks.” “I know, love. I’m going to take you somewhere safe.”
“My taunting eidolon, my lovely apparition, my beautiful phantom,” he murmured as a wet drop fell against the glass frame. “How many more nights must “My taunting eidolon, my lovely apparition, my beautiful phantom,” he murmured as a wet drop fell against the glass frame. “How many more nights must I mourn you?”
gabriel and his ruin, his damnation, his demise and his misfortune. silene had the saddest backstory from the three, my heart broke for her.
“You’re perfect. How can you fit so perfectly in my hold yet be the only thing I can’t hold onto forever? How can you be made for me so perfectly yet be the one thing I cannot have?”
“You’re Silene. My beautiful Silene with the gentlest, kindest hands. It wasn’t the violence that made you gentle, my ruin, it wasn’t the violence that softened you. You were kind and soft and gentle despite it. You won over all. In spite of all, you won. They could not change you, nor your heart—your kind, gentle heart. What they could not change they hurt. So let me take it away. Let me rip apart those memories for you.”
“Didn’t know the heavens had a smell.” “Mine does.” “Also didn’t know you owned one. But then, you seem to own many things.” “I don’t own her,” he said, reaching for a veil and pinning it at the back of her head. “But she does own me.”
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“My taunting eidolon, my lovely apparition, my beautiful phantom,” he murmured as a wet drop fell against the glass frame. “How many more nights must I mourn you?”
gabriel and his ruin, his damnation, his demise and his misfortune. silene had the saddest backstory from the three, my heart broke for her.
“You’re perfect. How can you fit so perfectly in my hold yet be the only thing I can’t hold onto forever? How can you be made for me so perfectly yet be the one thing I cannot have?”
“You’re Silene. My beautiful Silene with the gentlest, kindest hands. It wasn’t the violence that made you gentle, my ruin, it wasn’t the violence that softened you. You were kind and soft and gentle despite it. You won over all. In spite of all, you won. They could not change you, nor your heart—your kind, gentle heart. What they could not change they hurt. So let me take it away. Let me rip apart those memories for you.”
“Didn’t know the heavens had a smell.” “Mine does.” “Also didn’t know you owned one. But then, you seem to own many things.” “I don’t own her,” he said, reaching for a veil and pinning it at the back of her head. “But she does own me.”...more
one entire fucking month of torture and pain and boredom for such a shit fucking ENDING?!?!? please i beg i wouldn’t wish this series on my worst fuckone entire fucking month of torture and pain and boredom for such a shit fucking ENDING?!?!? please i beg i wouldn’t wish this series on my worst fucking enemy like oh my god i want to take these books outside AND BURN THEM!!
give me like a month and i’ll start book 8 ...more
You’re what I latch onto to bring me back from the shadows.
4.5 stars
this series has taken over my life and i’m not happy about it. the way that n
You’re what I latch onto to bring me back from the shadows.
4.5 stars
this series has taken over my life and i’m not happy about it. the way that nothing really improves as you go on but you’re so addicted and consumed that you can’t help but get so emotionally attached and involved is so crazy!!
i’m gonna keep this short but my thoughts so far:
whoever decided that was a good ending, fuck you <3 i’m gonna continue to live in denial, i don’t wanna talk about it, this how i literally looked bc i had to go back and read it three times while balling my eyes out to make sure i didn’t get this shit wrong. i need names n numbers bc im coming for you
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”You make me wanna dress up trees, Blue. I’m one hundred percent a lunatic for you. And I don’t give a damn.”
I will fight this war to love you, Juliette Cai. I will fight this feud to have you, because it was this feud that gave you to me, twisted as
I will fight this war to love you, Juliette Cai. I will fight this feud to have you, because it was this feud that gave you to me, twisted as it is, and now I will take you away from it.
4.5 stars
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utterly speechless. page turning. the angst and tension delievered. the pain delivered. everything i needed in book one was given to me!!
“To have and to hold, where even death cannot part us,’ Juliette whispered. ‘In this life and the next,’ Roma returned, ‘for however long our souls remain, mine will always find yours.”
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
this story was so deva
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
this story was so devastating yet beautiful in its own way. this book follows our two main characters born 20 years apart and their lives become intertwined, due to the devastating events they’re going through.
mariam and laila are two of the strongest fmc’s i’ve ever seen, the way that they endured so much but yet continued to keep their faith and held onto each other through hardships in their war-torn neighborhoods.
They made her aware of her own lowliness, her plain looks, her lack of aspirations, her ignorance of so many things.
mariam was the result of an affair between her father and a servant. for this they were shunned and forced to live in a small shack far from the city. mariam looked up to her father all while her mother warned her about him and men like him. she endured so much but still kept a brave face. she truly deserved so much better and all the love in the world. deep down she wanted to be loved genuinely and when she did have it she cherished it ...more
➶-͙˚ ༘✶“I love you, Charlotte.” He took her face in his hands. “My heart calls your name.”
i absolutely loved reading this. i knew exactly what was com
➶-͙˚ ༘✶“I love you, Charlotte.” He took her face in his hands. “My heart calls your name.”
i absolutely loved reading this. i knew exactly what was coming but did i still cry and die? yes, ofc i did. emara and i were absolutely HEARTBROKEN. but in the end, they all live happily ever after ...more
જ⁀➴ I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives draw
જ⁀➴ I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.
what a stellar ending to such a stellar duology⚔️. this series and these characters will forever hold such a special place in my heart. although this took me quite some time to jump into due to longer chapters and a slower start, the minute the action started i was hooked and could NOT put this book down.
in this book, we FINALLY got wylan’s perspective and im sorry he is sososososo adorbssssss. like i swear i wanna pinch his lil cheeks and put him in my pocket.
from the first book i would not say it wasn’t left on a cliffhanger, but it was definitely noticeable that the storyline was not finished and did this book DELIVER. keeping this as spoiler free as possible because this duo is so worth it.
my favorite aspect from this book was definitely the growth we see from each character individually. from kaz gaining strength to open himself up to inej and to his past, to inej continuing no matter what to keep her integrity and spirituality even when beat down, to jesper facing his wrongs and take accountability, to wylan realizing his weakness does not control his future and accepting it, to nina overcoming such hardship and continuing to keep her strength, to matthias ignoring his taught morals and wanting others to see his light.
they all have taught me soo much and although it absolutely TORE my heart out ...more
*:･ﾟ✧ We’re fated. Woven into the tapestry of the universe, my name right next to hers. We’re in the stars.
second read ~ december 2023
yk those h
*:･ﾟ✧ We’re fated. Woven into the tapestry of the universe, my name right next to hers. We’re in the stars.
second read ~ december 2023
yk those hiccups you get after crying so much? that is what chapter eighty-two gives me. jessa hastings pls give me that mp3 arc, i will sell my first born to you.
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first read ~ september 2023
write a review about mp2 without crying challenge. well, guess what i failed before i even started ...more
˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚ It’s not a crime to feel joy, even when things seem hopeless. Iris, look at me. You deserve all the happiness in the world. And I intend to
˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚ It’s not a crime to feel joy, even when things seem hopeless. Iris, look at me. You deserve all the happiness in the world. And I intend to see that you have it. ੈ♡˳
infinite stars
this book absolutely has my heart. the way that i fell in love with iris and roman was so unbelievable. rebecca ross has the most beautiful writing ever, although im not even slower fantasies she captivated me with this one.
iris and roman. roman and iris. kitt and winnow they genuinely make me believe in love on a whole different level. iris and roman being workplace competitors, iris writing letters to her older brother at war but instead roman receives them as an older brother missing his sister. intertwined magically.
iris is genuinely so brave & selfless. the way that she had gone through grief and loss and still was continuing on for the hopes of reconnecting with her brother, her resilience and strength was on such another level. i see so much of myself in her and yes she may not have magical powers or fight monsters but she’s one of the most bravest fmc’s ever <3
A piece of armor, because I trust you. A glint of falling steel, because I feel safe with you.
roman c kitt, so swoony n so dreamy. the way he found so much comfort in iris’ letters, and reading every single word she wrote!! waiting to hear the door click locked, coming to check on her. i could never ever get over it.
coming back after reading the second book it hurts my heart to not know it was what i envisioned): the romaniris i know was left in this book sadly. and although i didn’t like rv, i would one hundred percent recommend this book to anyone who hasn’t read it.(which i doubt most people haven’t)
one of my top reads of 2023 without a doubt.
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You were a sister writing to her missing older brother. And I felt that pain as a brother who had lost the only sibling he ever had.
“Your letters have been a light for me to follow. Your words? A sublime feast that fed me on days when I was starving.”
I don’t know who I would be without you, but you have made me in all ways better than I ever was or could have ever hoped to be.”
Their names would be entwined—Roman and Iris or Winnow and Kitt because could you truly have one without the other?—...more
༊*·˚ “I’ll keep it safe,” he swore, his pulse and hers in synchronicity, in truth beneath her palm, “ and in return, you’ll have my heart, forever, un
༊*·˚ “I’ll keep it safe,” he swore, his pulse and hers in synchronicity, in truth beneath her palm, “ and in return, you’ll have my heart, forever, until someone cuts it out of my fucking chest.”
4.5 stars
i absolutely loved this book! It was definitely something different from what i have been reading lately. although i have had really good reads in the past week, i needed angst and tension!! and boy, this book served me up and gave me a three-course meal.
we set the stage with this modern-day take on romeo & juliet in new york, two rival witch families, the antonova sisters and the fedorov brothers are constantly finding ways to strike back at each other for reign over the underground illegal scene.
out of the seven antonova sisters, yes there really are seven, imagine the memorization skills to remember them all this book follows the oldest who is marya, known as masha, and the youngest is alexandra who is also known as sasha. while on the other hand, it follows all three of the fedorov brothers closely who are (in order) dimitri (dima), roman (roma), and lev (leva).
to keep this spoiler free, masha is in charge of her mother's (baba yaga) business, while dima is in charge of his father's(koschei). masha learns that someone is cheating her by stealing her potions so she visits dima, we learn that they had once been lovers who had to cut ties. there she tricks dima into taking a drug that reveals whether or not it was him, she almost kills him and this leads to the start of a large conflict.
from this point we switch to our other main characters, sasha meets lev at a bar, and without knowing who exactly they are, they share a moment of pure romance and lust. until that is when lev figures out who sasha is and his brother convinces him to figure out her family secrets. they start to see each other more and more, and although conflict still persists you can tell they each want different things.
“I will always love you, I will love you until the day I die— and if you’re the one to kill me, then by all means, you should know without a trace of doubt you will not have turned me away. I will have spent the final beat of my heart loving you, just as I always have. Only you, Masha. Only you, forever, I promise.”
He turns grief and triumph and rapture and rage into words, into something we can understand. He renders the whole mystery of humanity compre
He turns grief and triumph and rapture and rage into words, into something we can understand. He renders the whole mystery of humanity comprehensible.
4.75 stars
the way the wheels have been turning in my head, i am so absolutely in love with this book and will continue thinking about it every night before i go to sleep. and i one hundred percent understand why people call this a macbeth fanfic.
although i had issues with the pacing, i am not officially done digesting this but i am absolutely mind blown and will officially be entering my shakes era again.
i wish i could put into words what this book made me feel, and nonetheless how to explain this book in proper words but i seriously just feel like i’m coming down from a drug high so i leave it as this.
—— if someone would’ve told me two years ago that taking an introduction to shakespeare class would come into use in the future i would’ve laughed in their face....more
And it would show me, once again, that one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to
**spoiler alert**
And it would show me, once again, that one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.
5 goddam ✰
do not ask me if i am okay because i am not.
i do not know where to start with this book. this book was absolutely heart-wrenching and filled me with so much pain. i do not ever reach for historical fiction and i guess i decided to take the biggest leap of them all because even looking back on my annotations can bring tears to my eyes.
the book thief is about liesel meminger who finds a book at her brother's funeral on their way to her foster family during ww2. her foster family consists of hans and rosa hubermann, and they accept her as their own, she grows very close with her foster father who helps her learn to read the book she stole, and from this point on she starts stealing more books.
later in the book, her foster family hides a jewish man named max in their basement, which strikes a new found-family member for liesel. sadly, max has to leave due to unfortunate circumstances, leaving the entire household heartbroken. i would say this had a large impact on how the rest of the story played out because max left an incredible mark on liesel.
now comes my favorite character rudy steiner ...more
If only I'd told her that I loved her years ago, then I wouldn't be here now.
this broke me even more than the first book.
i will say at fir
If only I'd told her that I loved her years ago, then I wouldn't be here now.
this broke me even more than the first book.
i will say at first i was hating it, i loved finny in the first book but getting his pov and hearing him justify some of his decisions…like i couldn’t support it. like finnautumn should’ve been a thing yes but i felt like a simple phone call could’ve done it before the entire situation had gone as far as it did (i’m keeping this spoiler free as possible so im being super vague) it honestly just annoyed me hearing him think whatever he was doing and dragging along was okay, i really wish she would’ve wrote that better imo
then we get to the end of book one and i was so destroyed i couldn’t even handle it, idk why i thought maybe the author would switch up and say sike and give us a different plot? NO SHE DIDNT. the was i kept telling myself maybe it’s just a dream? maybe it’s all wrong? but nope
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this was overall heartbreaking. my heart broke for them all especially autumn but i’m honestly kinda happy with how it ended even if i had tears in my eyes. i won’t say more bc no spoilers but pls be prepared for pain if you ever read this....more
Sometimes hope just isn't enough. It isn't meant to save people
this story was definitely heart wrenching. for it being a debut novel, it was real Sometimes hope just isn't enough. It isn't meant to save people
this story was definitely heart wrenching. for it being a debut novel, it was really good. it follow along the story of sam and their friend group of terminally ill hospital kids trying to live their life to the fullest. sam meets hikari and falls in love with her but is terrified to allow themselves to feel because the last time they were in “love” not sure if it’s the right word, it ended with sam seeing their lover take their life.
this story is very character-driven, you learn about their complications and about their journey from before the hospital to how they met sam (mc) and the blossom and peak of their friend group.
you meet neo, coeur,& sony, and you just grow to love them so much and you feel for them soooo much. they each have their own different complications and it is so sad to read about their struggles and that although their life is filled with so much pain and struggle they’re still attempting to fulfill a list of things before they sadly pass.
last character to join the friend group is hikari, and i personally felt indifferent about her. i just loved neo, coeur and sony so much like they genuinely melted my heart but with hikari and sam you basically get the gist of their relationship from the title. the entire time sam is very reluctant to believe in hope as their past has traumatized them.
i will admit that her writing if very different and a little harder to get through. not necessarily saying it as a bad thing but it took me a little longer to get through. also, the story does have time jumps that do get a little confusing but once you’re about 30% in it gets a lot easier, the writing style did match the book perfectly.
Because you don't lose someone once. You lose them hearing a song that reminds you of their smile. Passing an old landmark. Laughing at a joke they would've laughed at. You lose them infinitely.
~~~ this book took my heart and just tore it into so many shreds .
quotes:
I do not need to be forgiven for who I choose to be and even less for who I choose to love
You know you never wanted us to be happy, Sam. Happiness is a brittle, fleeting thing. You wanted us to feel loved, and we did
please please check complete list of tw’s beforehand, topics of ed’s, su*cide, death, etc. ...more
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