⭒August 2024 BotM - The Traitor’s Game [Discussion]⭒

[✧Bella✧]

It's so much better to be late with someone else. 😂

[EllieJellyBean :D, ⭒assistant mod⭒]

Fr! 😂 I’ve been feeling the lateness with my last couple of botms with F&F. 😭😂

[Jasmine (Jazzie)]

I finished this last night! I'll probably answer the questions and post my review of it on the other threads later today or tomorrow if I don't forget, lol.

[✧Bella✧]

Alright, so I completely forgot to post here lol. But I've now read 24 chapters. It's pretty good, although on the younger end of YA. Also, Kestra has been giving Jaron vibes. she even has the same hair and eye color lol.

[✨ tazannah - not accepting friend requests ✨, ⭒spiritual leader⭒]

Yeah they’re very similar

[Sharon, ⭒botm leader⭒]

Ha! I actually said something along those lines in my review.😅

[✧Bella✧]

Yeah, I'm planning on mentioning it in my review as well. Also, fun fact, Simon has the same hair and eye color as Imogen, if I remember correctly. Not that I'm complaining about a brunet, brown-eyed love interest lol.

[Sharon, ⭒botm leader⭒]

How's everyone doing with TTG?? I will be getting the nominations up for September soon, but no worries on finishing at a certain time. The thread will still be here for you when you finish.💜

[✧Bella✧]

I was just reading it lol. I've got like 9 chapters left, so I should be finishing it in a couple of days.

[Sharon, ⭒botm leader⭒]

Bella (The Seventh Crow) wrote: "I was just reading it lol. I've got like 9 chapters left, so I should be finishing it in a couple of days."

That's great, Bella! This is a reread for you, right??

[✧Bella✧]

No, not for me.

[✨ tazannah - not accepting friend requests ✨, ⭒spiritual leader⭒]

I’ve been super busy lately so not a lot of reading :/ hopefully tmrw

[Sharon, ⭒botm leader⭒]

@Bella—gotcha. I mixed you up with someone else.

@Taz—I know it’s a reread for you. Has it been a long time? Are you looking forward to rereading it?

[EllieJellyBean :D, ⭒assistant mod⭒]

Sooo….I haven’t started it yet…😂 I promise I’m about to!! But I’m going on vacation and I want to get a book from the library there so I don’t know how far I’m gonna get in it. 😂

[Sharon, ⭒botm leader⭒]

Ellie, you’re so funny!🤭

[David S S.]

I just started last night. ☺️

[Sharon, ⭒botm leader⭒]

David—Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

[David S S.]

I’m looking at it as a lighter read so we shall see 😄

[✨ tazannah - not accepting friend requests ✨, ⭒spiritual leader⭒]

Sharon wrote: "@Bella—gotcha. I mixed you up with someone else.

@Taz—I know it’s a reread for you. Has it been a long time? Are you looking forward to rereading it?"

I honestly remember it being better, but I did read it a few years ago and my style has changed. It may be bumped down one or two stars, depending on how I feel about it

[David S S.]

Maybe it will be a fun nostalgia reread for you Taz?

[✨ tazannah - not accepting friend requests ✨, ⭒spiritual leader⭒]

Yeah, hopefully! I’m only like 50 pages in haha

[David S S.]

I’m only 5 pages in 😅

[✧Bella✧]

And here I was feeling bad about starting it so late lol. I guess I'm not alone.

[Sharon, ⭒botm leader⭒]

@Taz—that kind of happened to me when I reread The False Prince. It wasn’t as good as I remembered.🤷‍♀️ Oh well, I guess we can give points to a book for having a good first impression.😁

[✨ tazannah - not accepting friend requests ✨, ⭒spiritual leader⭒]

True

[✨ tazannah - not accepting friend requests ✨, ⭒spiritual leader⭒]

Bella (The Seventh Crow) wrote: "And here I was feeling bad about starting it so late lol. I guess I'm not alone."

Hehe

[EllieJellyBean :D, ⭒assistant mod⭒]

I’m 0 pages in 😂

[✧Bella✧]

I've only got 2 chapters to go!

I'm thinking it might be 4 stars... Idk id if really deserves that, but I've really enjoyed it for some reason lol. I guess I've just been in the right mood.

Also, I've gotta say, I can deal with this extremely fast romance better than the (also extremely fast) romance in Nova.

[Elisabeth (Bets), ⭒assistant mod⭒]

WHYYY?! 😂😂

[Elisabeth (Bets), ⭒assistant mod⭒]

(About the romance)

[Elisabeth (Bets), ⭒assistant mod⭒]

Also, I said you'd probably enjoy this one. lol

[✧Bella✧]

Well... for one thing, in Nova, they fell in love in about the same amount of time, right? And they had no history prior to that. Also... idk, maybe I was feeling less chemistry. (Not that I think Kestra and Simon are so great a couple or anything, but I'm feeling a bit... more, somehow.)

Also, childhood-friends-to-enemies-to-lovers... I approve lol.

[✧Bella✧]

Elisabeth (Bets) wrote: "Also, I said you'd probably enjoy this one. lol"

Yep, haha

It's certainly not the best, and literally none of the plot twists have surprised me (even the ones I didn't call), but... idk, it's fun.

[Elisabeth (Bets), ⭒assistant mod⭒]

Bella (The Seventh Crow) wrote: "Well... for one thing, in Nova, they fell in love in about the same amount of time, right? And they had no history prior to that. Also... idk, maybe I was feeling less chemistry. (Not that I think ..."

Ugh. Whatever. 😂 And no, I don't think it was quite the same amount of time. lol

[✧Bella✧]

Alright, here's the deal... WE GOT LIKE TWO OR THREE CONVOS between Daeson and Raviel, before he goes and tells her.. things.

And, tbh, I'm not the biggest fan of this romance either (It's way too fast). And, of course, I read Nova as an eBook, which seems to affect a lot of things lol.

I think what it is, is I'm used to this sort of thing, so it doesn't bother me as much. Don't know if that makes any sense lol.

[Elisabeth (Bets), ⭒assistant mod⭒]

Bella (The Seventh Crow) wrote: "Alright, here's the deal... WE GOT LIKE TWO OR THREE CONVOS between Daeson and Raviel, before he goes and tells her.. things.

And, tbh, I'm the biggest fan of this romance either (It's way too fas..."

Yeah that makes sense. lol. I think the reason he told her those things is because she was the one who first made him question stuff, and now his world is flipping upside down and she's the only person who he knows of with answers. Who else would he go talk to?

[✧Bella✧]

Yeah, true, but it felt kind of weird, somehow. Idk. Maybe it has something to do with all my own chars being so unwilling to open up, and my trying to find a way to make them. And then I read something like that, and idk, it feels unrealistic. *shrugs*

[Elisabeth (Bets), ⭒assistant mod⭒]

😂 Yeah that makes sense. You also come in to Christian Fiction critically so you might be a little biased... 🤭😂

And I am sure I'm biased for it. lol

[✧Bella✧]

Yeah, I was thinking that too...