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And so our idiot-child heroine has finally realized, with a shit-ton of prodding from Tamlin, that she (and her loathsome family) are better off with her in the land of the Fae.

I thought Feyre family was broke. How is it she can ride a horse? If she learned as a child, it's been years since she's ridden. If you haven't ridden in years, or at all, you can't spend the day in the saddle without ending up in excruciating pain afterwards. More lazy ass writing.

How does this twit not see this situation as an opportunity? Why's she so desperate to get back to a life of starvation and servitude to a bunch of toxic assholes? There are much better ways to give a character motivation and purpose. This is lazy writing.

I really like Palamedes. So much that I wish he were a she so I could ship him and Gideon. Even if he turns out to be the villain and that dreadful Ninth necromancer, the hero, I'll still like him.

Allie Brosh is my kind of fucked-up.

I resemble this book.

Fayre's incessant whining anger is exhausting. She's so...whinegry. (Thank dog my expectations are as low as my purchase price on this.)

The pacing edged up ever so slightly with the addition of a murder, but this is still fucking glacial.

Up-bow, staccato slurs and double stops. Thanks to previous work with Kreutzer #4, it's not that difficult. Except for the ongoing problem of making double stops sound "melodious."

Movin' on up the fingerboard into higher positions. C-major scale on two strings in thirds.

Previous page consisted of a long and sorta tedious triplet study. ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzz.... Skipping to this page, which, sigh, has another triplet study, and a song "Around the Samovar." Etudes/studies are beneficial, but my attention span needs something less repetitive.

Nope, I still haven't achieved "melodious." And the dog is still howling.

Not a whole hell of a lot has happened, and despite the lovely writing, this would be be a slice of pretentious "blah" if...the protagonist, Gideon herself, wasn't snarky and funny. But she is, so I'm still reading.

There's nothing "melodious" about my playing of double stops on the violin. Hence, this book... LOL.

Descending/ascending slurs in E-more. Ugh, Sagreras, you're making my brain hurty.

"I learned in that moment that marrying a feminist dude wasn't the goal. Instead, I learned to look for men who genuinely like and value women as people."

"So scary are the consequences of a collapse of white privilege that many Americans have flocked to a political platform that supports and translates violence against the defenseless as strength."

"All voters should have access to candidates that make then feel recognized, but there's a problem with your notion of recognition is predicated on someone else's exclusion."

"Namely, white women's voting practices tell us that they vote with the party [Republican] that supports their racial issues, even though this means voting with a party that hates women as a matter of public policy."

"But I did not know that they suffered a far more acute version of a problem that white feminists have fore decades diagnosed Black women with having: For white women , their race comes before their gender."

"The lie we are told it that white rage and white fear are honest emotions that preserve the integrity of American democracy. More often than not, we keep learning that white rage and white fear are dishonest impulses that lead us toward fascism."

"Her [Michelle Obama's] hair was a signal to the world that what were were about to witness was some bullshit. She knew it. We knew it. "Do y'all see this shit?" that hair asked of all of us who were watching or deliberately not watching our complicated American homeland being placed in the hand of a mentally unwell fascist."

"This is why so many white Christians can read the Bible and still vote Republican. Because for them, nothing about the Bible challenges the fundamental principle of white supremacy or male domination."

"The regulation of sexuality by white Christians in the United States has always been about the propagation of a socially acceptable and pristine nuclear family worthy of having the American dream, a family that was heterosexual, middle class, and white."

"I am too afraid to say these things that need to be said, because the consequences of my demands might be another man leaving me, and my father taught me that my needs weren't compelling enough to make a man stay."

"Every opportunity I get, I stridently discourage the young men in my family from treating the military as their pathway out."

"One of feminism's biggest failures is its failure to insist that feminism is, first and foremost, about truly, deeply, and apologetically loving women."

"All I had imagined for my personal life at age twenty was that I would get married, have three kids, and enjoy taking care of a family. It's laughable now since I don't particularly like children, unless they belong to people I love."

Heh. I can so relate.

Bailing because...unlike previous books by this author, this is so boring and angsty-wangsty.