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I have read more than 60 percent of the book and the lack of communication is starting to hurt. They are both hurting and there's simply no progress for the last 20 % of the book.

I really want to like this book but I am starting to have my serious doubts that this sequel was most likely not necessary and is just a money grab.

So gloomy so atmospheric so many memories of being depressed in freezing rain in university lol

OMG

She’s a drug Addict and he’s getting groomed by the supernatural (after she got groomed last book). They’re both such messes????

Angry at the way women are treated in this world (and the similarities to the real world)

The way they are learning to love and trust

“Sometimes it’s the only thing I’m certain about - that when I’m with you, it’s the right place for me to be”

Obsessed with the parallels

I almost forgot how much I love Ava’s writing and the way her characters express their emotions

“She’s brave.” … suddenly suffused by the agony that was his affection. “It takes strength to feel so much. To feel so deeply.” … “I am seized by such love, I vow / that I must come to ruin now.”

ava reid talks about mental health in the most beautifully heart-aching way

I’m in book heaven

“Whatever faults I might have - and I have plenty - just know that I think if you, always. My mind is never empty of you. Not in waking; not even in dreaming” 🥹🥹🥹

This duology consistently reads like gothic horror but the horror is being a minority surrounded by rich men in power

some things may have PMO but that doesn’t mean i’m not still crying over these damn characters

Question is: do I binge read the rest of this tonight or stretch it out til tomorrow? 🧐

Eh.. it’s okay just like the first book more.

this is so bleak and grim like simply going. places and doing things i didn’t think we would….. it was strange to me that a study in drowning didn’t have any trigger warnings when reid’s adult novel “juniper and thorn” does. this novel definitely could have used one jesus CRHIST

This is really VERY good 🙆🏻‍♀️

Én komolyan nem értem mi értelme van ennek a könyvnek. Több, mint a felét elolvastam, nem halad semerre semmi, és olyan rohadt egyértelmű, hogy nem volt tervben második rész és csak azért lett megírva, mert népszerű volt az első. Mindkét főszereplő rohadt idegesítő lett és kezdem őket megutálni. Sokkal jobb lett volna, ha hagyjuk ezt ott ahol az első résznek vége lett.

Bro Effy is really going through it

Can one still cherish a love that ends in grief?

okay it’s dawning on me that the pace and prose of this book is an intentional reflection of how mentally ill the protagonists are rn so I GUESS i can appreciate that though I still think things could have paced and edited better.

this has been really slow going, plot wise….. circuitous even…. repetitive perhaps… ouroboros character interactions and events

I’m so confused…I can’t keep all of these myths and stories and sleepers and authors etc etc etc straight

The Draco inspo character finally said” wait till my father hears about it” haha also lotto love that guy

Naaaa not a older guy saying it was her fault thy fought because of how she dressed!

Also fight scene and the whole “a pure blood shouldn’t mingle with … I will show you better” sentence. It was just awful. Oh and yes his anger issues are getting worse.

Oh yeah also forgot to mention suddenly the mc guy was going from calm to anger issues inside his head. Just weird.

A the brat also threatened him and called her names. Let’s just keep it at reading a very explicit fanficyion.

This just makes me, upset. Yeah. Upset. Do not pick this book thinking you explore library and som gothic fairytale story.

It’s like a historical drama in the 50s, where for a long time the characters do not fight back and just have to suck it up.

I just don’t like it when there are too many people to get at them and no one gets a whiplash for it. Like the whole professor thing. Setting her up. Using him. Etc

Here still in some way or form) but really? You could write anything and you go with keeping the angst and making her a damsel and scared fawn? And the couple not have any conversation about their problems and just awful treatment, I am half way in and no resolution an too many people I dislike and this is NOT a cozy read. I am on edge, and frankly it gets really under my skin. I get tension, I get difficult topics

Its just, in the first book it was already a very thick plot on that but luckily they moved away from school and then the damsel saved herself but a lot of damsel parts, but she overcame it and got herself into the lite study and fired the prof and got herself name on the paper. And now we all reverse the progress to have what? A problem?? I feel like I am back in the 50s on sexism and racism. (Not saying it’s not

Like meanly trying to make him look bad. And his daddy tried to bribe the school to be more filtering people out, like women in literature studies( this is currently on count one because women can’t possibly analyse literature and I do NOT like it that first he babies her, and doesn’t notice her struggle and she doesn’t check in on him as much and secondly that she is being small and like’I can’t do this’