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What Members Thought

Jaya
1.5-perhaps-am-too-dumb-to-get-it-stars.
0.5 for the story and the writing. It was just all over the place.
1 star for the awfully sweet romance.
Valyssia Leigh
3.5 stars

This might just be the single most contrived story I've ever read. It's roots in Fangirl make it so. Yet it manages through all of the pains Rainbow Rowell takes (wink, wink, wink, nudge, nudge) to show that it is most assuredly not a piece of Harry Potter / Draco Malfoy slash fic to become an amusing little tale in it's own right, and of it's own type, independent of it's ties. Believe me, I was as surprised as anyone to find that my knowing smirk had become a genuine grin. The balanci
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Stay Fetters
Am I missing something? Because I don't get it!
Yes, I know I've never read Fangirls and no, I didn't know that I should have read that first.
One of the most predictable reads since We were liars.
Boy picks on boy and guess why??? He has a crush. Omg!
Can you say the word cliché with me?
And wait.... what is this??? Is that a happy ending I see. Fetch me my barf bag.

I can't go on and say that I hated this, it just wasn't anywhere near a favorite and not one that I would reread again. Everyone ke
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Darby
Jun 16, 2015 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
6 out of 5 holy crapppppppoo
Michael
THIS BOOK WAS WHAT DARRY HARRY POTTER SHIPPERS WOULD HAVE LOVED!!!!
I love the way Rainbow Rowell writes with such rawness. One example of this is (view spoiler)
Everything about this book screams Harry Potter without trying to, and i would say that this is the best element of the book.
In terms of characters.... obviously Baz, i mean COME ON, QUEER VAMPIRE?????? Great Characterization for all except Agatha. I feel like, at a certain point in the book,
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Ariel
Mar 07, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Loeka
May 19, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: own
Caroline
Sep 26, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Haley
Dec 02, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Karen Elisabet
Feb 27, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Miriam
Apr 21, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Tiffany Heywood
May 11, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Nicole
Jun 28, 2017 is currently reading it
Shelves: on-hold
Andi
Sep 05, 2017 marked it as to-read
Magnus Iskander Reim
Sep 22, 2017 marked it as to-read
Shelves: fantasy
La Tonya  Jordan
Nov 03, 2017 marked it as to-read
Myllady
Mar 10, 2019 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Bryn
Sep 03, 2019 marked it as to-read
Teri
Sep 13, 2019 marked it as to-read
Sydney
Feb 07, 2020 marked it as to-read
Lyra
Jan 01, 2022 marked it as to-read