im setting myself free of books im not enjoying and it feels so good
•frankly i do not fucking understand why this is called the absinthe underground when they only go there once briefly.
•i was gonna give this book points for vibes but yknow what. no. all the vibes were contained in the absinthe underground bar and they are evidently just never fucking going there again seemingly.
•WHY ARE THERE TWO PERSPECTIVES??? usually with romances im crying out and begging for dual pov but this just did not need it. they’re literally everywhere together describing the same things and esme and sybil’s personalities are bland enough that you could easily switch around whose chapters are whose and it wouldn’t make a single difference.
•this book feels like it has no stakes,

like if their little heist in sybil’s brother’s house is just the precursor for how their trip into fairyland goes, fairyland must have a yearly death count of zero cause THERES ZERO STAKES ITS LIKE A PLAYGROUND BUT YOU COVER EVERYTHING IN BUBBLE WRAP

•usually i adore friends to lovers but this is just all *love interest does a normal thing* *inner thoughts* “ooo i wanna kiss her so bad shes so pretty but idk if she likes me :(” like bro shut up and ask the question YOU BOTH LIKE EACH OTHER FUCKING SUCK IT UP AND TALK ABOUT IT.
i support sapphic rights and sapphic wrongs but not sapphic mehs