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i lové how we're supposed to feel bad for brandon getting his hands smushed even tho he's been a total asshole the whole book

Dez is the most suspicious motherfucker i s2g how is moira so dense

//spoilers WHAT THE FUCK RALEIGH LOST HIS JOB SO MOIRA COULD B HEAD MAGICIAN. HES THE ONLY EXPLICITLY BLACK CHATACTER IN THE TEXT. LOSING HIS JOB. SO WHITE MOIRA CAN TAKE HIS PLACE. WTF

MOIRA......
literally fuckin everyone: moira don't talk about Real Magic and the praestigae
moira: uses praestigae every chance she gets, reveals magic to boyfriend, uses it on stage

they made up and kissed like nothing was wrong??? she's still gonna damn near kill herself wtf is this who IS he

i....... she literally was gonna rely on her magic in this dumbass escape??? when she knew she couldn't accurately summon it all the time??? she STILL didn't practice picking locks upside down????

lmao i know the narrative wants me to agree with moira but what the fuck she literally almost died and 1. she'd done no actual prep with picking locks upside down and 2. she hadn't practiced/seen how long it'd take for the rope to burn????
hate to say it bc dez has like. weird inconsistent characterization but he's in the right here

ok but honestly like... avoiding talking abt serious things in ur relationship and then falling back to kissing to shut up?? no bueno

asked the Community abt what race he is... now we wait

not sure how i feel about dez being profiled by an old white man in the store when we don't even have confirmation that he's brown.... and that he was literally casing the store, as he says in his narrative
@gwenda, please for the love of god, what race is he????

"I was in deep trouble with this beautiful rogue." is it bad that i laughed at this?

i mean at 47% i'm not gonna say the romance is rushed but like... the romance is. Weird. why are they suddenly madly in love like 1. she didn't spend the first quarter of the book hating him and 2. she knew that the beginning of their relationship was a ploy by him to get her in bed?

note to self: dez is described Vaguely as a Person of Color but only after a certain percentage- initially, described as a tan white person, later as 'brown', then back to tanned

wow this book is Somethign Else

if you're not arab don't write stories about arabs, islamic lore, and arab history without. fucking. consulting arabs.

ngl this romance is so inorganic tho. moira went from hating him to being jealous of other girls bc of him to kissing him??? all up at 24%

IM SCRRAMING MOIRA IS THE STRAIGHTEST PROTAGONIST IVE EVER READ WTF

second hand embarrassment i DID NOT need

i love how the invite really was a mistake- nice touch -
also how do i always end up reading Bond's sequels before the first books?!

idky but my book ends at page 190 *shrug*

note to self look up hamd

yasMENE JABAR WAS BORN IN NORTH CAROLINA WHAAAT

wallahi ruslan sharipov's story tho.... uzbekistani government arrested him for speaking against the government, eventually let him 'go' to russia, but had injected him w hepatitis b and d before he left so he would die and it wouldn't be on them

yooooo i didn't know abt caliph al-amin ???

I love Faisal Alam's story omg it's my favorite.
he was engaged to a woman who he was attracted to spiritually and platonically and she prayed to Allah (swt) during ramadan asking if the marriage was the right thing to do, and felt like something was wrong during prayer, so she broke off the engagement.
six months later, he announced he was queer.
LOVE IT

I'M SCREAMING
"Did you leave Syria because he got married?"

"I left Syria because I thought to myself 'this is not going to happen for the third time to me'."

"Allah-consciousness is what should always prevail in any decision. And as the Prophet said, 'Amongst the first prophecies was: If you do not feel any shame, then do as you please!'
Let us not decide what's good for individuals and what's not. But let us encourage one another to more good for our souls because it is the soul hat lives on and it is the actions of the body that determines the destination of the soul."