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SAY WHATEVER the fuck you want, this is possibly one of the most ingenious, well cr

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SAY WHATEVER the fuck you want, this is possibly one of the most ingenious, well crafted, well written, well developed Children's book out there.

This person sat down, and not only put together an universe where children can do magic, away from their parents, while studying at a British boarding school alongside magical creatures, but this motherfucker sat down and genuinely created

★ DEMENTORS, energy sucking creatures who guard a prison and feed off of your happiness. And the only way to shield yourself from them is to perform a spell that uses your happiest memory for strength. Also, yeah, chocolate helps too. (as an adult this hits so fucking hard)

★ PAINTINGS WHO TALK TO EACH OTHER. Paintings who cover the walls of this magical castle, paintings who have feelings, memories, and communicate with the students. I mean that is not only hilarious, that is so endearing and unique.

★ A TIME TURNER. THE FUCKING TIME TURNER. Not that Rowling has invented it herself but the way she used it in this book? Reading Dumbledore say:

You can save more than one innocent life tonight??!!!?!!?!!?

BRO IF THAT SHIT DOESN'T TOUCH YOU, YOU'RE DEAD INSIDE. DEMENTORS WOULD STARVE TO DEATH IF THEY WERE STUCK IN A CELL WITH YOU, YOU ALREADY HAVE NO HAPPINESS LEFT INSIDE YOURSELF.

[image] ★ SNAPE? THE LEVEL OF COMPLEXITY of Snape's character. In a Children's book?? Really? Do I even need to start talking about Sirius and Buckbeak's arc in this book? OK I THOUGHT SO

★ THE NAME OF EVERY SINGLE SPELL

★ HOGSMEAD? DIAGONAL ALLEY? HOGWARTS ITSELF?

★ THE NAME OF EVERY ROOM, EVERY ITEM? THE MARAUDERS MAP?

★ QUIDDITCH? You are going to look at me, sit here and tell me that inventing quidditch from scratch is not the most unbelievable thing? Also, I am mad we got robbed of seeing Cho play Quidditch against Harry on television. Why did no one tell me this bitch was a FEMALE SEEKER FOR RAVENCLAW? That slaps.

And this woman was capable of creating ALL OF THIS AND MUCH MUCH MUCH MORE and still develop all of her characters thoughts, feelings, arcs, emotional baggage? I mean a pet rat here has a more complex arc than all of the "booktok" recommended books' characters I've read about combined.

Anyways, I usually don't cry while reading books. It's nearly impossible. But I did get quite emotional multiple times during this one.

"So you did see your father last night, Harry. . . . You found him inside yourself." [image]

I, Sirius Black, Harry Potter’s godfather, hereby give him permission to visit Hogsmeade on weekends. [image]

Perhaps we should think about dragons at the school entrance. . . .” “Hagrid would like that,”

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About Snape: “Fellow seems quite unbalanced,” said Fudge, staring after him. “I’d watch out for him if I were you, Dumbledore.” “Oh, he’s not unbalanced,” said Dumbledore quietly. “He’s just suffered a severe disappointment.”

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The hippogriff took off into the air. . . . He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them . . . then a cloud drifted across the moon. . . . They were gone.

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“Sirius is locked in Professor Flitwick’s office on the seventh floor. Thirteenth window from the right of the West Tower. If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight." [image]

Anyway, if you ever want to know what World Building and Character Development in a book is supposed to look like, you just have to read this.

The market is so oversaturated, everyone nowadays think they can write a fantasy book because the internet and KU makes it possible. And this book, THIS CHILDREN'S book, is here to prove to you that no, not everyone can.

Funny, heart wrenching and warming at the same time, creative, unique, well paced, entertaining, imaginative, poignant, artistic, expressive, compelling, engaging...

A fucking world phenomenon, for a damned good reason.

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I still have hope that in this mass market oversaturation where only Booktok books are getting deals because their authors have lots of followers, that someone, somewhere, will re-ignite a real passion for literature over their greed for fucking money and we will start seeing real fantasy novels like this one again.

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I GOT TO READ THIS BEFORE ARCS WERE EVEN OUT AND I AM SO

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I GOT TO READ THIS BEFORE ARCS WERE EVEN OUT AND I AM SO LUCKY I COULD CRY.

This is out June 23rd, by the way. SET AN ALARM, GET YOUR CALENDAR, PUT A MAGNET ON YOUR FRIDGE!

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Listen, they are both lawyers. Working for the same firm. She is ruthless, everyone thinks she is rude and unapproachable and he is a complete d!ck. They both suck at life but they are incredible at their jobs. There is a healthy dose of competition until they are put to work together on the same case.

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The FMC believes the only way she will ever get a happy ending is if she falls in love with a simple minded, small town guy who will teach her how to love a quiet life, forget about the soul crushing big city life and her stressful job. Ben Tate is here to teach her that she would never be happy in a crappy small town and that she is meant for so much more.

This book was so incredible, such an amazing reminder that women can be fierce, strong, cruel, brutal, speak their mind, fight for themselves, express their sexual desires and own every aspect of their lives without ever having to apologize for it.

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(her boyfriend was the real villain in the devil wears prada movie btw, just saying).

I thought we would be missing such a huge aspect of this story by not having the male POV this time, oh boy was I wrong! I also thought A Deal With the Devil was going to be my favorite devil book forever.

Nope, wrong again.

THESE CHARACTERS ARE SO EFFING REAL!!! The sexual tension between these two characters was so INTENSE IT WAS ALMOST TANGIBLE.

I caught myself screaming, crying, sweating, the best banter I've read in MONTHS, the best sex scenes, the BEST DIRTY TALK.

Incredible, inspirational, original, never done before, characters that haven't left my mind IN DAYS and I have finished this book a week ago. I still can't stop thinking about them, about this story, about their connection, about the ending.

You are going to pull your hair out, you are going to read this while holding your kindle with only one hand and you are going to fall in love with Ben Tate like never before.

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Or maybe I did and goodrea

Or maybe I did and goodreads deleted it, anyways...

Penelope is one of the best romance writers of our generations and we should be worshipping her at her feet.

That is all.

I picked

I picked this up because my dear friend Michele told me this contained the words: teacher, student, coach, taboo and I honestly almost quit my job to sit down and read this immediately.

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If you know me, then you know my obsession's with teacher-student tropes. I was expecting a quick, kinky read and I got a masterpiece instead.

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I have never seen an author use her words with SO MUCH intention. Her chapters are quick but deadly. I swear. This is one of the best writing I have seen in a while. It was enough for me to read two more books she wrote in a row because I feel like I can't get enough of her voice.

The character development is meticulously controlled, her dialogues are breathtaking, she does not over extend characters internal dialogues and she also doesn't waste time on unnecessary world building. It is honestly a dream come true.

She will make you gasp at the end of every chapter like you're watching a spanish telenovela

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(I am south american so I can make this joke without sounding like an asshole ok) and she will do that with WORDS alone. Her sentences are SO IMPACTFUL, I nearly found myself highlighting this entire book on my kindle.

Dual M/F pov, a troubled young athlete finds herself wishing she could f*ck the shit out of her coach. (don't blame her) Will is absolutely incredible. He will help her figure out what happened to her in her very traumatic past and they find themselves more and more in synch with one another.

Elizabeth is a master at storytelling. This book was more of a slow burn but even her sexual scenes delivered everything they were supposed to. I will recommend her to every single person I know from now on.

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I was on a cop kick, desperately

This was one of the most delicious taboo reads of all times for me. [image]

I was on a cop kick, desperately searching for the best cop romance and I was GIFTED this masterpiece while on my search. Not only my badge bunny dreams came true, but it hit every single daddy spot known to men.

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Q.B Tyler has such an unique voice, she gives me Penelope Douglas vibes and you know anyone who writes even remotely like Penelope has my heart in a chokehold immediately.

Her characters had awesome personalities, her writing flows so smoothly, her sm*t is not even a tiny bit cringy, the way she writes tension is amazing and the plot of this book was also pretty incredible. I was invested from beginning to end.

I will 100% be reading more Q.B Tyler for the rest of this year.

Just reread this for the first time since my first read and it’s still amazing.

original review below:

When all of you were raving a

Just reread this for the first time since my first read and it’s still amazing.

original review below:

When all of you were raving about this book about a year ago, I was traumatized. I wanted to tell all of you to shut the fuck up and leave me alone. Especially because I don't trust a single raving review that comes from tiktok. [image]

I am so glad I waited this long, because once all the buzz was over, I decided to pick this up. I did it on audible too, and oh-my-sweet-landlord-age-gap-loving-jesus-fuck. The hype was real and DESERVED.

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I already fell in love with Mariana Zapata after reading The Wall of Winnipeg and I knew I was going to enjoy this. However, I thought I was going to enjoy this like a normal person, and not let it consume my body, mind and soul the way it did. This book is soul-crushing in the best way. This book will make you question if your husband loves you enough.

I honestly will never be able to put into words what this book did to me. A classic Mariana Zapata, slow-as-slow-fuck burn, where the wait was worth every single second, I honesty wouldn't have changed a single thing about this book, that's a rare thing for me to say.

Again, her stories appeal to my poor Earth Sign heart. Down to earth, loveable real characters, simplistic writing, the most incredible grumpy-sunshine story I have ever read. I honestly recommend this on audible SO MUCH because we get this male narrator for MR RHODES and I swear to God, I get goosebumps just thinking about his voice.

A masterpiece. That's all I have to say. Just read this. This should be everyone's first Mariana Z. book. Just make sure you really like slow burns. This was incredible.

Mariana started the year with a FUCKING BANGER for me. Her writing is fucking fantastic. This book was absolutely PERFEC

Mariana started the year with a FUCKING BANGER for me. Her writing is fucking fantastic. This book was absolutely PERFECT I WOULDN'T HAVE CHANGED A SINGLE THING AND COMING FROM ME THATS A WHOLE FUCKING LOT.

Honestly, I don’t know HOW I AM GOING TO MOVE ON FROM THIS, I am going to have to force myself to pick another book up, holy crap. If you decide to read this, prepare to get hit in the nutsack of your deepest feels. This was so fucking romantic. So different than my usual stuff, billion times better than a boring predictable romcom. This was REAL LIFE AND I WANNA BE LOVED LIKE THIS. [image]

Before you jump into this I just to make sure you know that this is a real slow burn. Probably the best slow burn I have ever read. They have no sexual encounters throughout the book and the entire story focuses on their emotional development and connection with each other, and to be honest with you, I have read so many Saffron books recently that I am sick and tired of having a large amount of sex scenes placed in a book just for the sake of it. They lose meaning, the relationship looses it's appeal, even sm*t needs to be measured and controlled for a book to develop decently.

This just gives me Emily Henry vibes, real life vibes. Down to earth characters, grounded female protagonist (it is so hard to find one of those, believe it or not).

Their slow burn was so well developed that even the slightest shift in their communication made me feel like I was at Disneyland on a roller coaster, with Mickey Mouse sitting next to me, having a heart attack, Santa Claus was in the seat ahead singing me happy birthday right after I found out the Easter bunny was my dad. While on cocaine, the roller coaster was about to go down a 90 degree drop just for us to get splashed with chocolate and water at the end of the ride and they hadn't even kissed yet.

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And that is how you write a slow burn.

I cried at the end. No, I didn't cry. I sobbed.

I don't know if it was because I was on my period or not but they were happy tears. This was a happy story and I just felt warm, tingly, happy and loved in all the warm places. This is a comfort book, a happy book, a loving book. Almost 600 pages and it felt like nothing. I totally recommend this one if you consider yourself a romantic person. This would be an adorable movie.

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5/1/2022: Rereading this made it more spectacular than the first time. I didn't think this was possible, but yet, here we are. Six blasting stars.

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5/1/2022: Rereading this made it more spectacular than the first time. I didn't think this was possible, but yet, here we are. Six blasting stars.

I have no idea what happened to me. This entire month I had the most uncontrollable urge to go through every possible "Friends-to-lovers" movie, book, song... I am writing down this entire review as I listen to Dress by Taylor Swift and I honestly have no regrets. [image]

I don't know if Taylor coming out with Red this past week brought back every feeling I have ever felt, repressed and let it course through my system during my teenage years. Our community likes to pretend friends-to-lovers is the worst trope, but we forget we spent at least 10+ years of our middle school/high school years wishing our guy best friend would fall in love with us. I never hid the fact that Dear John and Teardrops on My guitar made me cry more than once.

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Here I am, 10 years later from being 15 and I can still remember what wanting something you can't have feels like. I can still remember what it felt like to lay your head down your pillow and wish you could be more than just friends . Don't let the cover fool you (yes, I still hate most of the overly colorful covers). This book made me believe in friends-to-lovers supremacy . This book made me SCREAM to the lyrics: "drop everything now, meet me in the pouring rain, kiss me by the sidewalk, take away the pain" like there was no tomorrow.

I hardly ever read books that make me say: gosh, I wish I had a love like this and this was one of them.

So down-to-earth, so real, no bullsh*t, effortlessly funny. No absurd, childish plots. I honestly wouldn't even consider this a romcom. Maybe it isn't. This was raw, built with realistic, mundane dialogues with an absurd amount of depth. I still can't believe that such a simplistic tale made me feel so f*cking much. This book DESERVES to win best romance of 2021.

I guess I do have a soft side after all, and my weakness ended up being the best "friends-to-lovers" book ever written. I blame Emily Henry, and Taylor Swift. [image]

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The sheer perfection of this book. I have no words. This gif represents how f*cking delicious the sexual tension was in this. One of the bes

The sheer perfection of this book. I have no words. This gif represents how f*cking delicious the sexual tension was in this. One of the best written slow burns I have ever read.

Have you ever read a book without a SINGLE FLAW in it? If not, this will be your first.

If you are not a romantic person, this book will turn you into a hopeless romantic. If you are an atheist, this book will have you praying for a church wedding and for this d!ck every sunday. She is beauty, she is grace, she does not over extend miscommunication tropes in your face. She will make you squeal like a teenage girl. [image]

As the disgusting Swiftie that I am I cannot deny this book will enter my very well known "drop everything now, meet me in the pouring rain, kiss me on the sidewalk, take away the pain" list.

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This book will make you feel like you are the main fucking character, on the way out from your corporate american job, you realize in the middle of the hot streets of New York City that there is one asshole you can't get out of your head.

You will throw away your starbucks coffee in the nearest trash can, call a CAB (not a taxi, its NYC) and run back towards where he works just to find out he was already on his way to do exactly the same for you.

You will look at each other and you will finally tell him with blurry eyes (because you can't keep this confession within you any longer): I hate you. He will say: I know.

He will grab you by the neck to kiss you so deeply and fiercely that your entire life will escape from you and inside that single moment you will become one. You will curse him, hate him, wish he was dead but you won't regret it any longer.

Because you finally said fuck it, fuck this, fuck keeping my heart at bay, fuck lying to myself, just for that one single moment of blissfulness when you are finally able to let go and just give in to whatever the fuck it is that you feel for that man standing right in front of you.

And that ladies and gentlemen is how I feel when I read this book, congratu-fucking-lations to Elizabeth O'roark one more time. For creating the most mind-blowing, perfectly constructed enemies-to-friends-to-lovers since Nick and Jess from New Girl.

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I hope this book makes you as happy as it made me. It is funny, light-hearted, well written, well developed and just a fucking amazing time overall. This book made me forget I hate romcoms. All Heil Elizabeth.

TW: Violence, Explicit Sexual Content, Crude Language, Psychological Torment, Witchcraft and Ghosts.

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I reread this last night to see if I’d still feel the same way about it, and yeah I do. This series is incredible.

Review from O

I reread this last night to see if I’d still feel the same way about it, and yeah I do. This series is incredible.

Review from Oct 28th, 2021:

HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCKING SHIT HOLY SHIT BALLS THIS WAS ABSOLUTELY INSANE, THIS WAS THE BEST NOVELLA I HAVE EVER READ. ABBY I HOPE YOU HAVE THE BIGGEST GOLD CASTLE IN HEAVEN. YOU WERE BRILLIANT! Brilliant.

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"Useless emotions. Rise above them. Stop reacting and act." Barrons would say.

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I will not just yet continue with the other five books of Dani's storyline. Maybe in the near future. This was the most surprising and unexpected journey I have ever been through. I picked up this series just because it had been in my TBR for so long and the books were short and it took control over my life and my feelings and I was swooning like a teenage girl all over again and I was never able to put the books down.

Addicting, mysterious, sensual, terrifying, exhilarating from beginning to end. Books hardly ever put me on real edge and this one has. No wonder it was written by a Scorpio. HAHA

Dark and twisted the way I like it. Karen managed to combine all my favorite horror movies, tv shows, a mix of supernatural and true blood and I had to stop lying to myself after I finished book 2 that I wasn't enjoying every second of it.

It made me uncomfortable, it put me on edge, but as my favorite video game character would say: "when you're not on edge you are taking up way too much space." And I could totally hear this quote being said with Barrons' voice. It is totally something he would say. Well there is a lot of things I can hear in Barrons' voice. He is in my head all the time now... I would not recommend this series to everyone, but my kind of people would be able to appreciate it for what it is, a masterpiece.

Karen is the shit! MacKayla Lane has won my heart in so many ways I can't even begin to put it into words. And Jericho Barrons? Well, good thing he is hard to kill... He will live in my head RENT-FUCKING-FREE.

Karen said "Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything." and this is exactly what this book has done to me. I brought out the most of everything.

If you enjoy the macabre, dark sensual stories and intense rides with the best writing why haven't you picked up this series yet? Same page?

Good.

Same page, same bloody word.

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My first reread of the year. I never understood when people said they had a “comfort read” book. Until I found myself needing so

My first reread of the year. I never understood when people said they had a “comfort read” book. Until I found myself needing some comfort from life and all I could think about was how much this book makes me smile and laugh and feel warm, how much it gives me a sense of adventure. Characters I can’t even begin to put into words how much I love them. They’re so real to me. They’re my friends. My family. I love this book with all my heart and this series will always be my favorite book series of all times. No other book makes me feel this light, happy, excited and loved. Thank You IA.

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