Following my previous lil rant about Alchemy of Souls, this is specifically about season 1. I’m gonna try rewatching again because how did no one suspect anything (romantic) was going on between Jang Uk and Mudeok?? At a certain point, when they weren’t just bickering like a married couple they were just giving heart eyes 🥺💕 and I’m like “is no one else seeing this?!” If I was there and I heard the sudden news that they were to be married I’d be like “woooww not like I didn’t see that coming” man hardly breathes in the direction of another woman.

I don’t know maybe everyone was too focused on their own lives (which is understandable).

Sooooo I recently watched Alchemy of Souls Season 1 and first off, I GET THE HYPE.

All I have to say though is after Jang Uk said ‘Marry Me, Mu deok,’ I shut my laptop and said ‘And they lived happily ever after. THE END.’

That’s where the show ended, that’s where it stops, episode 19. It was an amazing 19 episodes. I’m glad they wrapped it all up in that 1 season. Peace, love and happiness.

side note; I went into this series knowing that there was gonna be 3 love interests for the female lead and as someone who normally despises love triangles or anything more I seriously wondered how I would like this particular aspect of the show. But she had chemistry with EVERYONE! I can’t pick a side (Jang Uk all the way), every time she had time alone with one of them I couldn’t hate or be biased cause the chemistry was just chemistrying, it was THERE!

Anywayssss 20 19 episodes really drained me emotionally in a way I was not prepared for, so no I will not be watching season 2 (or 3?).

Can we just ignore Eloise’s book completely and have her runaway with that cute printer boy/activist/feminist?

I feel so dumb for not fully realising the mirroring going on or maybe just the coincidence of Bridgerton season 2 giving the backstory of Lady Mary’s love story which sees her marrying below her class and then Eloise becoming involved with a man from the lower class in that same season

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

~ Virginia Woolf

the "i definitely do NOT have feelings for them in any way shape or form" while obviously crushing on them trope might be cliché to you. it's about being doomed from the start, the desperate denial of the starved self, the tragic inevitably of love to me tho

The Zumra

We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal

Este año quiero leer 30 libros. El año pasado solo leí 7 libros así que este año quiero leer más.

DNF'd Sorcery of thorns, I feel that maybe all the hype made me have such high expectations for it that when it wasn't really meeting them, it just fell flat. I'd still like to try Enchantment of Ravens sooner or later though.

Not much of a romance (as a genre) reader. Romance as a subplot in a fantasy book on the other hand tho..................I'm definitely there.