ive had enough awful crap happening in my personal life that (though i love horror dearly) i genuinely just cant deal with the genre rn. will absolutely pick this up in the future but rn im in my fantasy and romance era !!!

stopping this because i am Fucking Hating This Reading Experience and trying to push through it is just making my headache worse.
part of this is just that im not into litfic rn but still!! this is not a novel this is a bunch of confusing barely-related short stories
reading this like “what is the POINT” and i think the point is pretty quotes and purposefully being confusing and i dont like it

this may totally work for someone  else, and i really hope it does !!! the premise is super cool, but as im a massive moodreader it’s just too hard of scifi for me at the moment. almost halfway through this teeny novella and im still so bored

in the most polite way possible, this book is probably fine, but the fact that a school shooter gets a pov is giving me very bad vibes and i just really dont want to read that.
i guess a horror story with a school shooter in it could work if given a lot of careful work and consideration, but i feel about this the same way i feel about horror stories set at conversion therapy camps: that its a little too modern of a topic to be easily handled as horror, and that it could go so insanely wrong if not given the utmost thought and work.

loved one of tori bovalino’s books before but i kinda cant stand the romance in this,

tristan being the lord of the wood and leah falling in love with him is so weird but to be fair i just generally hate the “teen/young adult girl falls in love with magical boy/man of indeterminate age” trope with a PASSION

rip me, went like a week without listening to this and i remember almost none of the plot

i think the translation just is not working for me, its that type of writing style where my brain is just glazing over any time i try and read it even though realistically i love the premise

i’ll definitely come back to this eventually, but it’s just not holding my interest rn

not a bad book at all, its just hard for me to find the time for audiobooks versus ebooks or physical books (honestly, if i have the time to listen to something it’s probably either music or youtube) and i am about to be extremely busy due to the new school year coming up
edit: apparently just straight up lied cause i just got another audiobook on libby. pretty sure it’s just that long audiobooks arent my thing, i dont find the time super often for audiobooks and the date for when i return it counting down is stressful lmao