got the urge to draw child Laudna in shadow Whitestone, she was such a sweetheart 🥹

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Literally everyone else: the courtly folk are extremely dangerous you should always engage with them with complete caution

Emily Wilde, Academic: I can't believe this Irish fuck who can't handle the cold is my only friend I'm going to kill everyone in this room and then myself if he doesn't stop making branches bloom in the depths of winter istg

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because I’m crazy,

baby,

I need you to come here and save me

priorities

cutie pie constance..

In the backyard, in a field of dying flowers… 🥀

"Darling girl, you are as pretty as a rose.. I can tell by the way my back bleeds at night that's a pretty close comparison. The way you scratch my skin in the throes of passion and ecstasy.. you may look innocent, but you cling and bite. Such a pretty, tender little thing until it becomes night.."

Even wolves know not to mess with roses at night - eUë

Wip

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book review || Darling Girl by Liz Michalski

video review || Raid My Shelves 6: Reading Vlog — BOTM Books

Okay, starting with the positives:

I think the thing I’m liking about this book most is the way the author has slid in different side characters with the same names or similar roles to characters in the original Peter Pan, but I wish this element had been explored a little more. The idea has me very invested, I wanted to see what would come of an evil Peter Pan in the real world. The plot itself had me plenty intrigued and once we were introduced to the Hook character, I automatically wanted to see more of him. The flow of the writing does feel reminiscent to a fairy tale.

However, so much of this book just feels… whelming? It’s not overwhelming or underwhelming, it’s just… there. While there are high stakes to the mystery, given that a child in a coma has been kidnapped, the actions of our main character Holly just feel like they don’t have much drive behind them. She’s sort of just running around, hoping to stumble upon an answer. This also makes pacing all over the place. It stayed that way for much of the book and only felt like it shifted into a fast pace at 75%. This did take some twists I wasn’t expecting from the beginning layout, which I appreciated, but they still weren’t insanely shocking. What really frustrated me though, is we don’t even see the climax of all the events we’ve seen build up. Instead, Holly hears about it through other characters, which just felt like a cop-out.

When Holly finally starts looking to others for help, she half-asses all answers, so they really can’t help all that much or don’t understand the real ramifications. Very similar to how the author half-asses telling us about the real background for as long as possible. She attempts to build suspense with this, but it just frustrated me.  This was just so frustrating and made it more and more difficult to sympathize with Holly because she wasn’t doing herself any favors. Not to mention, when she was finally called out on her harmful actions and lies, she would either victimize herself or become angry. By the end of the book, I just couldn’t stand Holly.

As far as characters go, we’re in Holly’s mind and she’s the most fleshed out, as an accomplished scientist, a devoted mother, and a solid paycheck for a therapist. Her son is a typical teenager, her mother is a dragon lady. I’m liking our Hook character, Christopher, but I want more of him. The romance between him and Holly felt underdone and I wasn’t convinced by their feelings for one another. Once we met Peter, he felt cartoonishly evil and underutilized, particularly given his presence has been felt throughout the rest of the book. Christopher and Peter are also the only characters who are really described on page, which was a little odd.

Content Warnings for on-page rape, which was quite startling and also felt strangely glossed over, with no real discussion of the event. It finally was at least acknowledged as rape toward the end of the book but was moved past pretty quickly.

3 / 5 stars

“Even if my eyebrows change slightly, [the public] notices right away. Attention is something to be very grateful for and without that attention, I probably wouldn’t be able to do this work, right? When this [contrast] happens, I think I try my best to focus on what I wanted to show. If I pay attention to each and every negative reaction, I end up losing myself. I believe that a fear of the public develops once you pay too much attention to what others think of you. While accepting what can be accepted, I want to continue doing what I want to do, in the range of not crossing any boundaries.” - Yeri for Allure Korea (January 2023) x

It's loving Kay Faraday hours. I love her so much. Miles loves her so much. She ends up in the ER in so much pain and scared. All her vibrancy washed out. And Miles rushes to her and holds her to his chest until the painkillers set in. Offers his cravat 'for old times sake' when they run out of tissues.

Twenty minutes after they kick in she's hoping down the hall to see what's going on while Miles gets her some food as requested. He finds her yelling at the vending machine for having Pepsi for 1.87.

He's a worried grumpy mess and he's so glad she's feeling good enough to cause him trouble. He loves trouble. He loves Kay

Is it me or did Laudna rolling her 'R's change? It feels like it. But I'm not sure, it's been a while since I've heard Laudna speak!

Review: Darling Girl by Liz Michalski

Review: Darling Girl by Liz Michalski

Peter Pan is Real. Tinker Bell is Real. Neverland is Real and the Darling Family will be forever connected to it all. Holly Darling is the granddaughter of Wendy Darling, who was made famous when Sir James Barrie took her and brothers story and turned it into a play that we all know. Ever since then the public has been fascinated by the Darling family. About the family, Holly included. Holly has…

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why have I consumed two separate pieces of media in the past week that center around peter pan getting old and evil and kidnapping people