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"Which is exactly why I did it," said Alex, in tones of disturbing good cheer. "Famous names might not be good for much, but we're great for making a scene."

I like this guy and also I like how world-building was done in the form of a bantering conversation wow

I really gotta re-read this in paper formatting after publication cause this is brilliant but the odd ARC format is throwing off the complete immersion I desire from this

'Sprawled between its armrests was the prettiest girl at New Columbia Prep, and the only other Asian kid in Pru's grade, which was probably how Pru had wound up friends with someone like Anabel Park at all . . . at least they both recognized the importance of a buddy who'd loan you her spare pair of collapsible tin chopsticks at lunchtime.'

'Do something! she thought furiously at her brain.
'Shit, shit, shit! replied her brain helpfully.'

ah yes the old newspaper report tactic for backstory/world-building

hey, if it works, it works!

'She cast a bleak, accusatory look at her depleted thermos, trying in vain to un-jitter-fy her fingers. Coffee: the cursed elixir of sleep-deprived, overachieving prep schoolers everywhere. The productivity potion that giveth and taketh away.'

I'm howlinggggggg omg please let this book only get better!!

'Grim experience had taught her that applying logic to the caffeine-hyped fog inside her head was a lost cause, but what else could you do?

wow Pru is truly a relatable character

'If Pru really stretched her imagination--because her imagination was pretty damn flexible--she could probably argue that the real root of her current trouble was procrastination.'

mood

just saw this girl walking by with her arms PILED (and I mean in severe danger of dropping everything) with books and chuckling happily to herself while saying, "I'm gonna read this all in a day!!"

You are the future, my dear.

'Like everything else he did, it was an annoyingly graceful motion. Figured that someone like Alex could make even borderline death threats look pretty.'

oh hey character I think I'm gonna like you a lot

from the author's note:

'History, no matter who writes it, cannot hide the blood on its hands.
But neither can it hide those who lived it.'

mkay that scene was kinda cringey instead of magical whoops

I need answers plz

"We are more than what we've survived."

2nd book in my dragon-ARC binge read

this is such a lovely, magical, super queer story I love it

oof this book has tried too hard for too long and it hurts now

oof I don't know whether to be salty about this or just say it's disappointing and move on

time to push through and finish this

I need to write reviews but I don't want to because I want to keep reading

no no no, no amount of inner justification is gonna make the fact of you keeping quiet about your problem the right thing to do, Rosella

"I'm a future abeula," she deadpanned. "I keep everything in my purse."

'He reads Lala as well as he reads the turning of leaves before rain.'

gosh she just writes romance so GOOD

mkay so Romanipen does NOT mean something similar to an Epipen, I'm guessing . . .

so there's . . . three POV's so far?? or more?? I'm not sure but once again I'm so caught up in McLemore's magical writing that I really don't care