This was SO fun, like I was just so thoroughly invested and enjoyed every second of this. It's ridiculous and cheesy but in the best sorts of ways, anThis was SO fun, like I was just so thoroughly invested and enjoyed every second of this. It's ridiculous and cheesy but in the best sorts of ways, and I just had such a fun time with it. Audiobook is also 10/10...more
Update, literally less than an hour later: hi so this book was everything I ever could have wanted from it and I'm so blown IM IN PAIN KTHANKS BYE
Update, literally less than an hour later: hi so this book was everything I ever could have wanted from it and I'm so blown away. the sheer amount of FEELINGS I'm having over Roma and Juliette—and over Benedikt and Marshall and Kathleen and Rosalind for that matter—are out of this world. I'm just . . . in awe
I buddy read this with my amazing friend Dezzy (which was so fun!!), and I think this message about accurately sums up my feelings toward the book:
THEY'RE [redacted] ANF THIS SCENE IS GOD TIER AND THE TENSION AMD DAMN AND THE FEELINGS IM FEELING TJINGS DEZZY I'M FEELING THINGS SO HARD I CAN'T HANDLE THISDJDJNDJJFF
so yeah basically if you need me I'll be losing my mind and sobbing
but also!! I have actual vaguely more coherent thoughts now!!
first of all the CHARACTERS y'all. the characters are god tier. I genuinely cannot get over how fucking amazing the characterization in this book is, I'm just in awe. Both Roma and Juliette—and in fact, the majority of the characters—are so well fleshed out and it's incredible
also the romantic tension? literally some of the best I've ever read. lovers to enemies to lovers is just a god tier dynamic, and this book pulls it off SO well. the amount of times I went absolute feral over Roma and Juliette was . . . too many to count. extreme. much screaming.
I also just?? am in awe of Chloe Gong's writing skills?? like DAMN. there were so many paragraphs that full on took my breath away and I'm just . . . wow. semi-relatedly, this book was fucking terrifying. like I've only really read a few books that scared me as bad as this one, and like that's bad for my sleep but holy hell Chloe Gong pulled this off so so well and im just hfgddggdf
my oooonly little issue with the book was that (view spoiler)[Paul saying he loved her was a bit . . . sudden, seeing as they'd interacted all of three times (hide spoiler)] but like you know what it didn't affect my reading experience it just made me laugh so . . . not a big complaint lmao
I also just wanna say the plot? god tier. everything about this book was god tier, actually. but like the plot was so impressive, there were so many threads that I could never remember them all, but not so many that I lost track of them when they were relevant and it was so well done.
anyways hi I loved this book so fucking much and I'd like to formally announce my love for Roma and Juliette that is all...more
I've been reading for as long as I can remember. I fell in love first with the stories, then with the words themselves. It's been a long time since I I've been reading for as long as I can remember. I fell in love first with the stories, then with the words themselves. It's been a long time since I read a book that reminded me why I fell in love with words in the first place.
I don't really know how to even explain it. This book isn't necessarily my favourite book I've read this year, or even necessarily the best (although it's certainly up there). But it was so incredibly well crafted, and I'm blown away.
It took me a long time to read this, in part because I was busy, but also in part because this book hit so hard and sometimes I couldn't stand to pick it up. That isn't a criticism, far from it. This book felt like it understood me, on a bone deep level that I didn't even understand myself on. I am genuinely in awe.
I also just . . . feel so satisfied. I spent most of the books dreading the end, convinced that no matter how skilled V.E. Schwab is, there was no ending that could truly do this book justice. I was wrong. I think this is an ending I'll remember for a long, long time, because it shocked me so much and yet now that I've read it I can't imagine how I ever could have thought it would end any other way
anyways that was a ramble but like wow. this book was a masterpiece....more
uh excuse me who gave this book permission to make me feel things????? who gave these characters permission to steal my heart like that???????
Matthew uh excuse me who gave this book permission to make me feel things????? who gave these characters permission to steal my heart like that???????
Matthew Fairchild, Anna Lightwood, and Alistair Carstairs now own my entire heart and I will not be taking any criticism on this
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HOW IS THIS COVER SO GORGEOUS???? I've hated at least half of the Shadowhunters covers in the past but MY GOD THIS COVER IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING EVER!!! STUNNING. SIMPLY STUNNING....more
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