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Fallen Thorns by Harvey Oliver Baxter

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dark emotional lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Reading fallen thorns went from cozy and sweet to stressful and then traumatising and sad. I love these characters so so much and I love their relationships and their adoration of each other and that's why I'm never forgiving the author. I need book two like, yesterday. The way this book ends is so devastating my heart tore into As many pieces as the amount of characters I love which a lot.
I think my favourite thing about this book other than the incredible platonic love portrayal and the relationships and queerness is the main character. We don't find such great depiction of an aro/ace character easily and I'm so grateful I got to. I love arlo with all my heart and I relate to him so much. Him and Ben did not deserve this and I will forever be MAD. My heart is still broken and I still can't move on T T

“You don’t have to explain,” she winked, “boys have needs.” My laugh came out delayed as my brain processed what she said. It was just a joke, nothing to get worked up over, but… that’s not me. I’m not like that. I didn’t have needs. 

Here are some of my favourite things about this book:
- how much queerness there is and how normalised it it.
- the diverse collection of characters.
- the lovely found family aspect.
- some of those plot twists were fire.
- I love that the vampire aspect was in fact a parasite, it made it more interesting.
- I love that we still have fantasy elements even though the vampire aspect turned out to be a parasite.
- I LOVE BEN AND CASPER they have my heart I already miss them.
- I love arlo with all my heart he's my baby if anyone lays a finger on him I'm rioting 😭
- MARIANNE!!! not elaborating on that. You'd understand once you read :).

A note: this is something I personally enjoyed and loved because I relate to arlo so much but it might be iffy to some people. We spend a lot of time in arlos head. We see his thoughts, observations, feelings, and emotions all throughout and I loved it a lot. But I also thought its very fitting considering what happens with the pov's later in the book.

I also want to point out that I VERY MUCH appreciate how arlos anxiety (and eyesight lol) were not cured after he turned and I think the way his anxiety manifested differently afterwards in a very subtle way, when it comes to his heart, was genius.

All in all. I cannot wait for book two 😔

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