Sorry I haven’t been posting about books, I got into k-pop and I haven’t read a word since

It Will Come Back by Hozier is so AlizehCyrus coded 

to be loved (cam/pal) is to be changed (paul)

books I’ve read in 2023 - #1

Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

”But you can grow, Effie thought. You have already grown, in fact. You simply haven’t noticed it because you are constantly looking at the sky and not back down at your roots.”

“It was good. We were happy.”

there is no case to build imo cyrus obliterated kamran baddd… like mr gold veins is not recovering from that

LMAO listen I like Kamran and everything but Cyrus pushing Alizeh off the cliff was more iconic than anything he ever did. Cyrus literally showed up, served cunt, murdered the king, and left with the girl and I have no choice but to stan

for those with impossible dreams and for those who feel dreaming is impossible. there is so much waiting for you on the horizon. 

— a far wilder magic by allison saft 

WORN PAGE LIBRARY december book club pick. half a soul by olivia atwater.

“There is such a thing as evil in this world,” Elias told her quietly. “It does not help to look away from it. It does not even help, necessarily, to look at it.” His fingers brushed through her hair, and she shivered. “But sometimes, when you cannot force the world to come to its senses, you must settle only for wiping away some of the small evils in front of you.” — olivia atwater, half a soul

Currently building my case for Alizeh/Cyrus endgame

„𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢“

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hello darling! I'm reading the shatter me saga and mention is made of a bird, who is that bird and why does Juliette dream of that? Spoilers don't matter, I just want to know, please

oh happy valentines day!!! ❤🥰

hi love, happy valentines! so the bird is kind of two different things, one of them is just a literal memory from Juliette's childhood involving birds. The other is meant to symbolize freedom or her desire for freedom -- she dreams of the bird while she's in the asylum or when she feels trapped in omega point, and the dreams stop when she associates the bird with Warner, I think kind of showing that he is her freedom or that that dream was sort of guiding her to him

hello!! how is the new book of tahereh mafi? What does it cover more in depth? Spoilers don't matter, I want to read it, but there isn't much info on it.

Hi! I had a lot of fun reading these and I would totally recommend. If you're asking what the series in general is about it basically follows this girl named Alizeh who is the lost heir of the Jinn kingdom -- a species that was basically whipped out by humans a while ago -- and is living in hiding as a servant on the palace of the Ardunian empire. Kamran, who is the crown prince of said empire, has been hearing a prophecy that his grandfather (the king, who very much wants all Jinn dead) will die and that the empire is in danger, but obviously he ends up crossing paths with Alizeh and quickly becomes enamored by her without knowing that she could be the one to destroy his kingdom.

The second book which just came out picks up right where the first one left off. On one hand we have Kamran reeling from basically everyone he knows betraying him, his grandfather being murdered, and loosing the trust of his officials. On the other hand, Alizeh is over in Tulan, trying to decide whether she should just straight up murder Cyrus or take him up on his offer to marry him, the pros: she has a kingdom to rule and can resuscitate the Jinn empire, the cons: Cyrus' deal with the devil makes it basically impossible to understand what his true motivations are and why the devil wants them to get married in the first place. We also learn a lot more about what Cyrus' whole deal is (spoiler alert, I love him) and we see a relationship between Cyrus and Alizeh (friendship? alliance? something else?) begin to form.

Finished These Infinite Threads

Tell me no, and we’ll go on as we have been … and we’ll go on unafraid … but say yes, and we will make this end, and this beginning, together.

went to the bookstore today 💫

girls will literally turn their parents’ corpses into meat puppets to prevent the House of their birthright from being annexed by other powers