Rai (is hard to please) > Recent Status Updates

So, let me get this straight:
After months of being mistreated and having her autonomy stripped away by these men, the first time she is intimate with any of them her bond takes over and forces her to consummate, with or without her conscious consent.
Oh, and it was also her first time… ever.
Okay. Gotcha.

I know she’s probably a virgin and it would make sense for her to BE a virgin

But also, fuck that

It’s fucking crazy to me that they’re all on board with her spending the night in the same room as someone who has proven that they cannot be trusted to not literally assault her

(TW)
So… do we acknowledge that it was rape?? Bc if you can’t stop or object to your assailant for fear of losing control and either killing him or being bound to him for life, neither of which you can allow yourself to do… then you were out of choices. You can’t consent when you’re out of choices.

(TW)
Why is Gryphon acting like he’s a good guy for not forcing himself on her when he
(1) Did not protect her from someone who DID
(2) Is tacitly agreeing to forcing her to stay with them, knowing that she’ll eventually have to cave to the temptation to bond with them or become a danger to everyone around her.
That’s still a violation of her agency even if it’s patient and subtle.

I’m going to light them all on fire
then run them over
then drop them into a woodcutter
then bake them into meat pies
then feed them to the pigs
then ship the excrement directly to J. Bree… with a glitter bomb

Human woman finds herself amongst Fae.
She is warned not to drink their alcohol.
She drinks anyway.
She makes a fool of herself in her inebriated state and is later preyed upon by an opportunistic creep.
Fae man rescues her from the creep, because despite his arrogance, we are supposed to believe he is a gentleman.
Woman spills her guts, both literally and figuratively, to man.

I’m tired. Do something different.

I would enjoy this a whole half a star more if it turned out she’s an unreliable narrator and was actually an assassin this entire time

Every time she calls him the bad guy all i hear is
I’mmmmmmm the bad guyyyyyy
Duh
Dodo dododododo

why does he want to suck the venom out?? didn’t she just say that the venom was necessary to neutralize the poison??
wtf do I know

omg guys isn’t it just so romantic when the guy who has tormented you for 3 weeks straight confides that he finds u pretty bc he thinks you’re about to die in the trial he designed to kill you?????
wouldn’t you be SO flattered and not at all tempted to push him down a flight of stairs??????

why is he calling her a hellhound
y’all have hell??
y’all have JESUS????

so apparently fae know about adrenaline?
ok

I still can’t get over the fact that of all names this rat-wolf-prince dude could’ve given her…
He told her to call him WALTER
How am I supposed to be afraid for a dude named WALTER?

“Nothing mattered to me. I could feel nothing.”

Edgyyyyyyyyyy

what does it say about me that I find the female lead the least annoying when she’s experiencing a violent psychotic break

why are the fae using the imperial system
if they were gonna use a human-invented system of measurement… why would they choose the one that makes the least amount of sense
sincerely,
an American

can someone kindly inform authors that it is neither ingenious nor endearing to make their academic female leads averse to swearing

she’s 29

this feels like something someone would write as a joke

Is it a bad sign if I’m compelled to correct the very first sentence of a book?

3. Why doesn’t she just ASK the Quicksilver how to make a relic? The sooner the relics are made, the sooner she can activate the Quicksilver again—which is what the QS WANTS, yes?
4. I’m putting a whole 10 cents on the god who’s always in time out turning out to be her dad
(2/2)

Questions/suggestions/predictions:
1. Can’t she just… extract the Quicksilver from him? Or if that’s too risky, can’t she command it to go to sleep? It would be like a benign tumor.
Talk about leverage.
“Be nice, fuckface. I can take your pain away.”
2. The relics—why did they try to use pulverized bone instead of blood? There’s iron in blood. It should be more compatible, no?
(1/?)

Giving a bad book an even worse audiobook narrator should be a war crime

Me: *stops reading bc the secondhand embarrassment is too much to handle*
Me: *avoids reading until i forget why i was avoiding reading*
Me: *bullies myself into finishing the book i have a vaguely ominous feeling about*
Me, two paragraphs in: “Oh. Oh, no. Oh, God, WHY????”

Ok, Katherine. I need you to restore my faith in love and literature. The fate of the world may or may not depend on it.
No pressure.

“You two know he’s autistic, right?”

WAIT- WE’RE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT IT??

“I knew I needed to let him go. This was Brycen all over again. Maybe my hands were too bloody to hold onto someone.”

They almost did something here

“Shit. Do I have daddy issues?”

PFF- Ok. Fine. That one got me.