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I literally just finished and I already miss Mason and Xeni🥺🥺🥺

This is one of my new favorite romances of all time, definitely one of my favorite books of all time period! Mason is one of my favorite book boyfriends. He can play seventeen different musical instruments and does magic tricks, what else could a girl want???🥰 And Xeni is on my list fave characters ever too! This was so cute, but simultaneously emotional, and I just LOVE how much of a comfort they were to each other. One of the best couples ever, I just love them so much! 

I devoured this book but simultaneously didn’t want it to end! I could’ve read 800 pages of them being cute! I’m in love!!! This book gets all the stars!!✨✨❤️❤️

In depth review on my YouTube channel! (@BookTribe)

My thoughts are so incoherent and chaotic right now, but I just have to say that this is one of the best books I’ve ever read and I need y’all to go preorder it, request it from your library, do whatever you have to do to make sure you get this in your hands when it releases.

A (possibly) coherent review to come.

🖤🩸✨Coherent review✨🩸🖤

Laure Mesny, Black ballerina at the top of her class, but constantly overlooked, is tired of being powerless. So, she bathes in a river of blood and makes a deal with an eldritch god for power. But is the power worth everything she has to sacrifice for it?

I have SO MANY thoughts about this book that it’s so hard to narrow down what all I’m going to say, but, long story short, this is definitely my FAVORITE book of the year and it is also one of my favorite books of all time! I need everyone to preorder it, request it from your library, do whatever you have to do to make sure this book gets in your hands on August 29th!

There are countless things that I loved about this book! Our main character, Laure, is one of my all time favorite characters. I will defend her to the very end! She can do no wrong! We LOVE monstrous Black girls over here! I relate to her so much because after being powerless for so long, it’s easy to become a “villain”. (I use the term villain loosely because, as I already said, my good sis can do no wrong!) And every character in the story was developed very well. You either loved them or hated them, but you were indifferent to no one and understood everyone’s motivations and personality!

I also have to mention how GORGEOUS the writing is! I think this is the most I’ve ever annotated a book. I honestly could’ve highlighted the whole book (I almost did🤭) There is absolutely no way that this is Jamison Shea’s debut. The writing style is so engrossing, it’s so descriptive, I would even say the writing is straight up CINEMATIC! And speaking of cinematic, this needs to be adapted into a movie ASAP.

Everything about this book was just so amazing: the story, the characters, the writing, the cover, the HORROR of it all, the way the story came full circle at the end, just everything! This book just left me speechless, but simultaneously, I wanna say EVERYTHING about it! I need more people to read this, so that I can gush about it with others! MAGNIFIQUE✨🖤🩸

P.S. knowing that I will be getting more of this magnificence when the second book in the duology comes out makes me so happy🥰🥰🥰

Thank you so much Macmillan Children’s/Henry Holt and Co. and NetGalley for this arc. All opinions are my own.

TW: racism, classism, parental abandonment, ritualistic self harm

All you had to say was “Black family of supervillains” to get me hooked on this! I’ve personally never read single issues of comics before, and I don’t know how y’all do it because that was definitely not enough! I want more! I’ll definitely be reading the other issues soon. I’m going to hold my rating until I read more of the issues and see where the story is going, but so far I'm enjoying it!

Finally an enemies to lovers book I enjoyed!! Enemies to lovers is one of my least favorite tropes, but every once in a while one sounds so good that I have to try it out, like rival true crime podcasters having to work together and then falling in love, and I’m glad I did! Their banter was so funny! I actually enjoyed listening to them argue! And the conversations about being a creator, especially a Black creator, had some things that I could relate to and also some things that I needed to hear. I do wish that the story had a little more depth, but since it’s so short, I can see why it was the way it was. I’m excited to read more by this author!

I put this down because I caught a cold and couldn’t concentrate on reading, and then I just never wanted to pick it back up.

Characters had no personality so I didn’t care about the romance and therefore didn’t care about the book.

This was so boring. Nothing was happening, and it wasn’t even intriguing. Like you know how sometimes a book is slow but it’s building suspense and intrigue? Not this one.

All she did was walk around high for 100 pages. No story at all. I heard that it gets better after Part 1, but I don’t care enough to read through all this slowness to get there. This is the kind of book that gives thick books a bad name!

It was almost the exact plot of The Hunger Games lmao. I’ve already read that.