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A review by mortal_wombat
Bookish and the Beast by Ashley Poston
3.0
I ended up in a murder house about to be murdered by a murderer...
Noooo the name Rosie Thorne so egregious shields eyes
If literally anyone didn't say, "if you like it all that much, it's yours!" after "...daring swordfights, magic spells, a prince in disguise," 10 points from Gryffindor.
My literal favorite moment is when she asks, "are you quoting Howl's moving Castle?" because the obvious response in every situation like that is to laugh your ass off.
I'm okay that these books are just more of the same but...I don't know. Kind of felt like very little happened in this book.
Even though the author's prose gets really eyeroll drama prose every now and then..."Grief comes in waves. It lobs against the sandy beach of your soul..."
...but I can refrain from eye rolling long enough to dig her casual, irreverent style.
So there's more than a lot of ...let's call it female gaziness in these books (all of them) really which is really annoying, actually. I feel like we are objectifying the (specifically gym-type) male body a lot more than is necessary. I am whatever is the opposite of into it. It's kinda super gross.
This book suffers from the rom-com heroine unbelievable accident-proneness disease. Also shit like "cornflower gaze" makes me want to gouge my eyes out.
I stan Space Dad. No that's not quite right. I want to be Space Dad. There it is. That's accurate.
I mean I'm obviously jealous of the library employee who gets to wear ear gauges but that's not it.
Not to be such a librarian about it but Jesus Christ don't put the books back where you got them when you're in the library. Plz.
I think we deserved more of Quinn and Annie in this book.
So here's the thing: renters insurance does not cover anything like that.
Obviously I was shipping Elias and Space Dad from the second they met. Hopefully not in a weird way.
The author made a Fangirl reference and I didn't quit, so congratulations me.
Two boys have what amounts to be a girl fight in this book and it's honestly funny.
The whole time I am fundamentally confused about what Vance's name is. Is it Regans or is it Reigns? It keeps going back and forth.
Noooo the name Rosie Thorne so egregious shields eyes
If literally anyone didn't say, "if you like it all that much, it's yours!" after "...daring swordfights, magic spells, a prince in disguise," 10 points from Gryffindor.
My literal favorite moment is when she asks, "are you quoting Howl's moving Castle?" because the obvious response in every situation like that is to laugh your ass off.
I'm okay that these books are just more of the same but...I don't know. Kind of felt like very little happened in this book.
Even though the author's prose gets really eyeroll drama prose every now and then..."Grief comes in waves. It lobs against the sandy beach of your soul..."
...but I can refrain from eye rolling long enough to dig her casual, irreverent style.
So there's more than a lot of ...let's call it female gaziness in these books (all of them) really which is really annoying, actually. I feel like we are objectifying the (specifically gym-type) male body a lot more than is necessary. I am whatever is the opposite of into it. It's kinda super gross.
This book suffers from the rom-com heroine unbelievable accident-proneness disease. Also shit like "cornflower gaze" makes me want to gouge my eyes out.
I stan Space Dad. No that's not quite right. I want to be Space Dad. There it is. That's accurate.
I mean I'm obviously jealous of the library employee who gets to wear ear gauges but that's not it.
Not to be such a librarian about it but Jesus Christ don't put the books back where you got them when you're in the library. Plz.
I think we deserved more of Quinn and Annie in this book.
So here's the thing: renters insurance does not cover anything like that.
Obviously I was shipping Elias and Space Dad from the second they met. Hopefully not in a weird way.
The author made a Fangirl reference and I didn't quit, so congratulations me.
Two boys have what amounts to be a girl fight in this book and it's honestly funny.
The whole time I am fundamentally confused about what Vance's name is. Is it Regans or is it Reigns? It keeps going back and forth.