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I don’t see the justification for that.

This seems a little predatory.

Oh, yes. Alone in a hot room trope.

These 30 year olds are crazy.

That’s funny. Protagonist walks 3 miles and needs 12 hours of sleep.

Three chapters on a twisted ankle. Not to say it wasn’t interesting but to marvel. I may be too laconic and in need of elongating my speech patterns.

This reminds me of K-dramas.

I know we’re going for the second chances trope but it’s a bit of a red flag when your cousin draws the guy you had a date with nine years from memory.

It’s so funny when the author doesn’t bother to hide it and just writes out the trope. — “yet every time Vivi used magic, even the little things like her anti-cheater spell, something in her…paused. Held back.”

The Craft reference.

Ok. Maybe LGBTQ representation?

Ugh. Stevie Nicks reference. What’s this, an Instagram post?

I like the history teacher angle.

Every. Book. I. Read. One. Parent. Is. Dead.

Dear author, a show of maturity would be for Rhys not to feel responsible for a parent’s mood. Healthy Boundaries.

I haven’t seen a reference to a “roman nose” since Charles Dickens. Gross

Ugh. Honestly, it’s 2022. Why is the love interest blue eyed and “roman nosed”?

Candles melting on the rim of a clawfooted bathtub? I’m sort of charmed by the ridiculous?

Burdened by a vow.

I’ve heard that it’s a red flag if a man only has one friend, but here I see that it’s pitied.

I took this to the gym with me to be my casual read and I’m already super personalizing with Marcus. In the Prologue, Honoria is seven, and my son is almost six right now, and they absolutely have the same behavior. It’s actually refreshing to have an author depict the behaviors of a child’s age correctly.

You know a book is fictional when a random man walks up to Nora and then leaves her alone.

I’m pretty sure i has this conversation when i was in high school. How old are these characters, again?

These people need some boundaries and to stop disrespecting each other’s agency.

I know the narrative needs conflict, but why are we going two steps back?

No, that’s not romantic, author.

We say that literature changes the world, but when a secret or a lie is consistently the plot point for disaster, I wonder at that assertion.

Nobody, not her keeper or her lover, comes to assist her.

I’m going to guess we’re going to have a surprise patient.

Thum-thum.