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The romances are so fucking GOOD

So it is really a sex book lmao
Liked this one a lot, the list-shape got me, as well as the ending

4,25/5

A fascinating and puzzling first story. I wasn't expecting so much sex scenes, but they didn't bother me because of how they were written and used, a sort of objective discomfort for the reader. I found it cleverly done. I was pleasantly surprised by the ""stage"" directions and their evolution. Fantastic feminist undertext.
3,5/5

WHAT'S HAPPENING!?
I'm lost and confused and scared

It weird because it has the vibe of a very slow book, but it’s actually not. We’re only shown the key scenes, never moments of pure rest. Some detailed descriptions sometimes slow the story down, but they’re never over a paragraph long.
In the same vein, everything feels very distant, yet I do care for the characters ? (I definitely have lil crushes ou Ouyang and Zhu 🫡)

AAAAH THEY MEET AGAIN 🥺🥺🥺

DEAR LORS

👁️👁️ still very good

Damn, this is such a fantastic fever dream
The reuse of descriptions for several different characters is so fun

Still extremely good!!!

This is now fully my jam and fully what i was looking for. The last chapters were very enjoyable, I liked the way we were offered important glimpses at Zhu's life instead of getting a generic summary of a time skip. The tension in the last pages was incredible and had me screaming??? EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER HELLO?? So clever after slowerish and more peaceful scenes. I didn't fell, I jumped into that trap

still going strong. i’d recommend this to people who enjoyed mexican gothic because of the pace, the atmosphere and how it’s being set, as well as the dynamics between characters (they don’t have the same relationships at all, but the distance between them and the frequency of their dialogs is similar)

It's picking the pace up !! Last scene actually hooked my attention

Oh it starts slow, slow 🥲

WOW THIS IS SO GOOD I HAVE SO MICH TO SAY ABOUT IT ALREADY AAAAAH

This is so good already I’m gonna explode. Fantastic characterisation, great use of 1rst person narrative, vivid settings, gripping atmosphere

wtf

Should have read and trusted the reviews. I don’t fully know where this is going, but I know I don’t like it

The backstabbing and the injustice makes me so. Fucking. Mad. I want to dnf but now I need to get a satisfying end 💀

Can't believe this is actually the year i'll finish this

Nella got lil bit annoying in the last chapter
Like don't SCREAM when you're eavesdropping ??

Don't mind me, I started this literally 3 years ago lol Finally gonna read part 3 with way too little memory of the previous ones <3
This edition is a nightmare to read :)

I think the flashbacks are good : believable characters, natural dialogs, and it’s mysterious. But the current timeline isn’t very griping. It’s giving too much information on everything all the time. The action is taking too long to start -that’s mostly on me, I did think this was a murder mystery. And the dialogs (that might be intentional) sound so fake, the rivalry between Nella and Hazel is painful to read :(

Barge mais genre juste comme il faut

J'aime trop ?? C'est super fun et malicieux
Et couverture 10/10

I'm super sad because I loved the prologue, it was well written, grippingly paced, i was hooked. But now the other chapters are kinda flat ? We're given too much information on everything and it both ruins the mystery and slows everything down :(

The mc and his mom relationship is my favourite thing. It's so tender and clumsy and bashful and ❤️

The conversation they're having right know has me crying

Still really enjoying this. It's flowing and sweet and cruel, very believable characters and natural dialogs

Thank God the only female character is only here to endure everything and comfort the mc who constantly is a piece a shit