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cosmicjess


DNF @ 75%

besties i tried but

5 stars for the sapphics! i have my issues, but i shall take more time to think abt this and then come to a better conclusion

SO GOOD!!! why is this duology so underrated? criminal

Received this copy for review through Netgalley. Thank you!
(triggers at the end)

i am thoroughly speechless with regards to how this book made me feel? how do i explain it?? i think everyone just needs to read this to understand

this is the kind of book you devour instantly, as all the emotions constanta feels will be reflected in your mood throughout the whole story. it's an open letter that she writes to her once love, forever tormentor, explaining how they reached the point in their long lives in which she couldn't take it any longer. it's about her slow progression from idle wife, victim to a monster's clutches, to the emboldened leader she becomes once those she loves are threatened by their husband.

you root for constanta, since by the time the horrific climax reaches, she's shown every aspect to her and her husband's trying lives, and you can't help but empathize with her will for freedom. you come to care for magdalena and alexi as she cares for them, and you want to protect them as fiercely as she does.

i dunno how the author did it, but i was a mess by the end of the book. suddenly i need to read everything they've ever written pls

trigger warnings for
domestic abuse (verbal, emotional, physical), violence, depictions of depression and mania, murder (on-page), confinement

v interesting and an easily digestible storybook on the stories of the norse pantheon

that was wild by the end damn

REREAD 10/30/2021
kinda boring this time around oop

ABSOLUTELY! satisfying end for a stressful story

there's no words for how mentally unwrll i am after this fucking trilogy. NEVER AGAIN! i say as i already own the next trilogy and have the rest in my cart :")

ow :)