my favorite enstallment of the cruel prince trilogy. it had the perfect pacing to keep me engaged. i really loved the plot line of jude controlling cardan and how that played out.

i thought i was going to hateeeee it, but it actually was pretty good! it was the perfect ratio of romance to political intrigue (small romance, BIG court politics). the idea of fae was an ick for me because of the whole tails things (and the rep they get from ACOTAR) i was scared, but it was well done.

amazing book, i absolutely loved it, but lesbian is not a bad word and some authors need to remember that

i really loved this! i read it in like 30 minutes all in one sitting and i could not put it down! i loved the friendship (turned romance) between the two main characters and it was really well put together. my favorite part was

the fashion show at the end when everything was resolved

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4/5 ⭐

12+, deals with topics such as feeling distant from one's culture, immigration, and loss of a family member

I absolutely loved this book, I read it in one sitting and it was amazing. One of my favorite graphic novel tropes (not sure if that's exactly the right thing to call it) is when there is a story within a story, in this case it was an absolutely beautiful fairy tale within another beautiful story.

Going into reading this, I knew absolutely nothing and I was shocked by how much I loved it. I definitely recommend to anyone looking for a quick graphic novel that you cannot put down that features a queer and Vietnamese main character.

If you liked this, then read this...
The Girl From the Sea (12+)
Bloom (14+)
Heartstopper (15+)

this was not great and super boring to read for school while i had covid. if i had seen it performed in a play as it was meant to be, i could see it being much more engaging, but as a screenplay it was really boring.

i found the coming out scene to be a little weird, it felt like it was trying to defy stereotypes, but it ended up falling into them. it was overall just alright, very average. also not every sapphic book has to be enemies to lovers. i don't enjoy film making novels much already and this one i especially didn't like the way that was incorporated in.

i enjoyed this book a lot, but the really high rating could have been due to the fact that when reading this i had covid and was extremely bored and this was the first book i had read in a while. i wish that they would have developed ruby's character a little more and made them more of dual main characters rather than Ruby just being Saorsie's love interest.

for a book that i had to read for school, it was easy to understand and fairly entertaining making it okay, but it was literally just anti-communist, anti-russia propoganda. for school we had to write an essay for the ayn rand institute and i wrote a very pander-y essay for them.

it is hard for me to describe how much i actually hate this book. the racism was the only thing that i could consistently understand was happening throughout the whole book, it was so convoluted for no reason. the only reason it got an extra .25 stars is because the writing is pretty good on occasion (when i can understand what's happening) during some of the imagery of the landscape. otherwise this is one of my least favorite books of all time.

if you are going to read this book, i would recommend also picking up Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe) because it is set during the same time as Heart of Darkness and is in a sort of close part of Africa. the difference between a novel written by an European man and an African during that time is insane, it gives perspective to both of the novels. another interesting thing about this is that Heart of Darkness is told from the perspective of the white man doing the colonizing and Things Fall Apart is from the perspective of an African person whose village is being colonized.

(i had to read these for school so i can talk about them forever)