Danny Reynolds > Recent Status Updates

I’m glad I didn’t read the back and just trusted Cassandra Clare to give me a good story :)
I also want it known that I am READING this one with MY EYES and the BOOK in my HANDS ;)
(There’s a 12 week wait in the audiobook)

Back on this one 😮‍💨

THE HARRY POTTER MAN JUST SAID FUCK

Hello Jim Dale I missed your voice

IM FINISHING THIS BEFORE MAJA DOES ✌️
I just got the hard copy and there’s an index in the back with characters PRONOUNS!! SJM could NEVER 🖕

I’m LIVING for all the casual queer and disabled rep!! Also all the creatures and worldbuilding are such a breath of fresh air

Chapter TWO and we ALREADY have LESBIAN and GENDERFLUID characters!! SJM could never

Palette Cleanser #1

I’m sorry but after Powerless I just can’t read another book about someone hiding because she “can’t let them find out who/what she is” 😭
I’ll come back to this one after a palette cleanser or two… of five

“I’m not leaving here until I murder this murderer” why does this have 4.33 stars

WHY ARE THEY PLAYING THUMBWAR??

These trials and the ‘riddles’ that come with them are fuckin dumb

This is like the fourth time they’ve ballroom danced together? What’s with the random dancing? They did it as “practice”, then at a ball (also what’s with so many balls??), then IN THE WOODS during a “DEADLY TRIAL”, and now again?? In ANOTHER BALL? Bro chill

“She holds the bow as if she’s left handed, even though I know she’s not” THATS NOT HOW THAT WORKS! Bows are either left or right handed- unless you get a shitty ambi one from Cabellas but something tells me they don’t have those in a FANTASY KINGDOM! Do some RESEARCH
Sorry for consecutive updates but this is ridiculous

Can we ban new authors from having mind reading in their books? This book has the CRINGIEST mind-reader dialogue
“Have you been reading my mind the whole time??”
“Yes I have been reading your mind the whole time”
“Get. Out. Of. My. Head”
Girl shut the fuck up

Nathan Fillion is one of the narrators??
Jumpscare fr

Did she just pick a lock with a knife??

Welcome to the most boring game of tag you’ll ever read about! There’s MAGIC in a DEADLY TRIAL why is it boring??
Also SJM has ruined a whole crop of authors with her male/female thing

Still not clear why there’s deadly “trials” in this kingdom or why Paedyn needs ‘votes’?? World building who amiright

Books this big are way too hard to hold comfortably

The first third was okay but now it’s just BORING
Ofc I’m over 60% now so I’m finishing it but damn

I’m convinced Ava Reid used a ghostwriter for Juniper and Thorn bc there’s no way that piece of trash has the same author as this

Oh my fucking god(s) we fucking get it the crown prince is the future king. That’s how monarchies work, thank you.

Current totals: 96 uses of the word female and 161 uses of the word male (I think I missed a couple ‘males’ in there but I’m not rereading this anytime soon)
I think I’ve also counted three times using male/female where is was warranted, but every. single. other. time was unnecessary and could have been swapped out for man/woman/person and not changed the meaning/intent 🤢🤮

WHY DOES THE ANGEL HAVE A FOOT FETISH???
I DONT WANT TO HEAR ABOUT HOW MUCH HUNT WANTS TO SUCK BRYCE’s TOES!!

Between chapters 27 and 33 I’ve already counted 16 uses of the word male and 11 uses of the word female

Starting chapter 27 today and counting all the male/females again 🤭🥰
Side note a story about a “pack of devils” and shifters would have been so much more entertaining than “slutty former party girl tries to solve a murder spree that killed her friends”

I thought this was enemies to lovers? They’ve been flirting w each other since they met??
Also a knife throwing scene? Divergent ripoff?

WHAT IS THIS CRINGE ASS DIALOGUE??? THIS WAS NOMINATED FOR A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD