Elle (ellexamines on TT & Substack) > Recent Status Updates

tfw you unfriended someone on goodreads four months ago and find out they went through your GR, found your blog link, stalked your blog, found your Twitter link, and then scrolled through 200 tweets just so they could send your “all-girl-remake idea yay I'm having fun that doesn't hurt anyone!!” thread to another twitter troll and get you harassed. tfw they ADMIT IT. this is wild

I have read 18/19 of these stories but the last story literally takes up an entire fifth of the book I'm crying

two things. first of all, that last twist blew my mind. second of all, I'm going to write an entire review about how this is the kind of mental health narrative I'm always looking for.

that!! was!! so!! cute!! and I'm basically only breaking for Romie here ngl I want to finish this

wow I hate Alex's mom

this is actually super good?? I'm still Annoyed at the girl hate but everything else is 👌👌

fairly good so far, just a little girl hate :/

god wait what if book three has Nazira's point of view

somehow I feel like it might

if it does it's already my favorite book in the series ngl give 👏 my 👏 girl 👏 chapters 👏

I 👏 WANT 👏 DEATH 👏

(take a wild guess what scene I'm reading)

me, rereading three of my four favorite books at once? it's more likely than you think

my phone autocorrects Nazira to NAZIRA now and I feel like that says a lot??

remember when Kaz threw someone off a bridge bc they treated menagerie girls like less than people? iconic

this is so stressful I'm having a brain aneurysm immediately

“I don't know why I'm sorry. I don't know why I'm scared to make my mother angry. My emotions are smaller than they should be. I'm the one who should be angry, but I'm cranky or upset. As if a sixteen-year-old can't be angry for real.”

this is... fantastic. Seriously.

I have an arc copy and merch for Moxie now!! because of my little mini blurb!! if any of you have an arc of that book, check the inside flap because ya girl has a quote :)

This is really reminding me of the third book of the Jenna Fox chronicles and it's not plagiarized or anything - there's actually a lot I prefer about this book - but the plot is really,, the exact same and I just don't feel compelled to keep reading??

this is... fine?? there's nothing particularly great or bad about it. the environmental themes are well-done, but it feels like I'm still waiting for it to get started.

Radu and Nazira are my gay parents who raised me

I FORGOT HOW THEY MET LET ME DIE LET ME DIE LET ME DIE

RADU CALLS NAZIRA “YOUR WIFE” WHEN TALKING TO FATIMA

LET THIS GAY FAMILY BE HAPPY PLEASE

Radu saying Nazira and Fatima's love is the purest he's ever encountered... bye

god, this book is long. I'm enjoying the stories so far, though!!

I have almost inhaled my own brain multiple times reading this, and personally I'd like to thank god and also jesus for giving Marcus Sedgwick such a fucked up imagination

uh, wow?? this is really cool already

the idea that diversity in fantasy isn't real unless it confronts oppression is the wildest idea to me?? like as a marginalized person it actually seems like some bullshit really homophobic / racist people came up with and yet apparently it's supported by some people who are actually literally marginalized?? I am so fucking confused

I love this squad

this is the best novella I've read in my entire life and I want all of you to read it IMMEDIATELY

like ngl if you consider yourself “anti-censorship” and “open to all opinions” but then unfriend me because I, a book reviewer, dared to dislike a book that I read and write a review with full textual evidence, maybe don't consider yourself “anti censorship”? You're not.