ruaridhreads's Reviews (536)

Trope filled predictable YA with the most stilted of prose, it’s only redeeming features were the odd heartfelt moments that stopped me giving this one star. 

I hate that this was my author break up with Adiba Jaigirdar i really do 😭

imagine DNFing a novella 💀 nothing happened 

sorry Dad but i can’t carry this massive book about any longer hdkdjd i will look into a volumes copy

i will love this book when i have the headspace to confront my own uni experience — this is not that time

too long wrap it up!

oh yeah no grimdark is so not for me 💀 

I have many half-thoughts on this book and it’s popularity—how strange that a book that is lauded as romance is really about violence against women, how passive Patroclus only found himself in the last hundred or so pages, how this is only of those inexplicable online favourites when it seems so wrought to me. 

Fundamentally, I think, the most important relationship in this was between Patroclus and Briseis. Perhaps the only time we saw our narrator be himself, not to be who he thought the titular character wanted him to be. How unusual, then, that I have never seen anyone echo that. 

I don’t know. Beautifully written but confused in its motivations. Something just not quite right. So it always goes. 

for a book series i can read so quickly you would think i actually enjoy it… it’s fine?