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And she HATES the idea of Ale’s life moving on without her. Exited to see character development later on.

Sounds like Emmanuela has a loottttt of feelings she bottles up. She loves Ale. (platonically. But she still treats him like shit) She started to feel something for Chiara Bianchi, but wouldn’t let herself because I think she’s afraid of feeling something that could make her vulnerable. She really seems to hate the idea that people will forget her. She needs to make a mark in peoples lives.

Preamble: sorta like an introduction to the item/thing. So when the woman says “snooping?” Without preamble, it’s without any further context I guess

It’s kinda sweet how Emmanuela thinks of Ale, but she treats him rly shitty and is just toxic overall. It sucks she’s not able to express how important he is to her.

Gud. “The person next to me is still long, labored breathes.I wish they would hurry up and die. The sound is rattling my bones”

Really interesting so far!

I can tell that I will HATE the protagonist, but I think that is how it was written to be. She’s extremely selfish already. I hope she will develop and change over the course of the book.

Kind of like maze runner. I guess...

Ok now I’m slightly annoyed at emanuela she’s being so mean and also like I need something to happen that’s gonna progress the plot

Emanuel a has GOT to be an Aries

Maybe this is another book where they're in space...

if any of my friends EVER talked to me like that i would never fucking interact with them again

im very confused about the setting. is it set in italy? is it a world inspired by italy? idk. the only thing i know is that occhia means eyes in italian. i'm not sure how i feel about emmanuela. she's supposed to be unlikeable, but idkk. i like ale though. he's baby.

This mess...

"Freddy, you're supposed to be reading one book at a time!?
"Vanessa, I'm...a material girl"

OMG this book is absolute nonsense.
And I know this doesn’t sound like a good reason to DNF, because I am usually a fan of nonsense — nonsense is FUN.
This? This isn’t fun. This is disparate elements pulled from wherever and sort of assembled into a semblance of a story-shaped thing. Characters are one-dimensional and the world falls on the wrong side of bizarre.
42% through and done with this, sorry.

This book is incredibly weird.

The Italian peppered throughout is already bugging me, but NGL, that second gown does sound incredible

got into the midnight void early, so OBVIOUSLY that's how i'm starting my reading in 2022 which means—a re-read is needed 😌

also… isn’t this supposed to have some kind of romance? just 30-40 pages to go and haven’t met the love interest yet…

spoiler: HAHA she didn’t just eat both his eyes just for it to have no magic in it😳

Emma to her best friend: “You useless piece of garbage. This is why you’re supposed to do exactly what I tell you. She attacked me. She could’ve killed me. And it would all be your fault.”

Emmanuela is so incredibly selfish, literally gives off toxic masc energy and constantly says she’s not like the others in her town. And yk what… it’s madly entertaining. Hope she changes ofc, but she better keep some of that “if i want it, i’m gonna get it” like a f-ing boss

DAGGER TO THROAT ITS A DAGGER TO THROAT

The pacing of this book is amazing.

I want a friendship like ale and emanuela

Well, this escalated quickly.

This first chapter is an excellent example of setting up a seemingly unlikeable character but making her kind of likeable due to her sheer audacity.

these characters have no real plan. It's a little chaotic.

I was a little wary when I read the author bio and it said, writes books with unlikable characters. That's a potential red flag statement. I also didn't know if I was in the mood for fantasy, but the cover grabbed my attention, so I wanted to read it.
It's not that bad so far. Very quick. Emmanuela is really not very nice. Slytherin energy is strong. But I too am a Slytherin, so I don't hate her.