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man once i crack through these netgalley reads and start catching up on 'popular YA' y'all are gonna HATE me

*looks at Frank Miller's Batman: Year One* do i dare disturb the universe...........

alsdkjf i'm dreading picking this back up the writing style is horrendous AND it's in first person

i love when i Suddenly Remember phrases from 'we should all be feminists' it makes me so happy

this writing style is so poor nooooooo

okay so basically if you don't want to read my long ass review: if you're a person of color, just don't touch The Unbecoming of Maya Dyer

FUCK this book they queerbait maya and then shuffle Jamie out of the book after pointing out that he's the "token black bi Jewish friend" FUCK this

this book is so. white like the mc is an indian girl and yet the narrative completely ignores that unless they're eating goddamn curry like what bullshit

it's official this book is shit and I'm Tired

"Due to an undiagnosed heart problem, a blot clot formed in her body and caused her first stroke [...]" I'M SCREAMING DO YOU MEAN A BLOOD CLOT. HOW DID THIS GET PASSED THE EDITOR

cole cheated on his wife w nikki.... hmmm....

the love interest drives a black mercedes adskjlkadsf

it's hilarious how. high and mighty this MC is bc her ex boyfriend was actually pretty decent but she was literally never around and she has the Audacity to be angry when he shows up to help her dance like cmon

the male pov is just. so weak

do ppl use the verb 'clocks' in a way that doesn't mean 'smacks the hell out of' ??? "When he clocks me, his gaze sharpens and I swallow hard." bitch me too if i just got hit in the face, but i don't think that's what she's trying to say

to be clear: not that male objectification doesn't exist but that it rarely has any actual consequences on real men as a whole like it does with women

you know my ass is never gonna go off on 'male objectification' but i think it's really unsettling how the MC held this guy as the object of her fantasies for two years and then continues to do so once she meets him again in real life

the 'i'm the aunt but i know what's best for my niece over her own mother' trope is really old. the 'my sister hides me from her daughter so she doesn't like me more' trope is really old

it's really weird having a book have the premise of 'one night stand that Marks MC For Life' like.... get a job.... live ur life...

this book is the reading equivalent of eating wheat germ for twelve hours

staying up a full night to bust thru some books.... do i love myself? no

never knew how cathartic george's fake girlfriend throwing shit at him would feel... it's great

but also i love lew like. oh my god he's so bad at being a villain i can't believe he took evander out to dinner when he's his hostage

so far i've only enjoyed two of the stories... pathetic

i'm laughing i love the villain he's like. what bullshit is this the hero doesn't even take you to parties. wtf. get him here i'll fight him. (hero doesn't show up to fight) you've gotta b goddamn kidding me. here i'll let you go what is this bullshit