A review by theahappyhermit
Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

šŸŒ¶ļø yesā€¦ like over the covers kinda writing 

This is modern day Shakespeare and I mean that so literally. The toxic drama mixed in with deeply profound lines of poetry that makes people wanna pick apart, act out, write novels on and spend years studying. Lines that make you wish Tom hiddleston was on stage proclaiming with those emotive eyes he had when he did that live production of Coriolanus from 2014- you know the eyes,  the look,  Iā€™m talking about? Too niche? 

Fine fine let me circle back. 

I feel like I was in a scientific study and was being poked and prodded, injected with things to see how Iā€™d react and REACT I DID. what is in these books? Because objectively bj (HIS NAME IS BJ) is the worst kinda person but he is now one of my comfort characters? Huh? Someone please explain how I hate him but I hate hating him to the point where I donā€™t hate him I love him? But I canā€™t explain it fully and thereā€™s no logic to it other then somehow I think bj truly fully understands love in all its forms and facets and accepts it for all itā€™s wonderful horrible things. How can man who does what he does and acts how he acts also have the most romantic and intimate lines and soliloquies? (Itā€™s because heā€™s written by a woman shut up I know thatā€™s not the point)

Something happened to me in between the pages and it feels like how it feels when I hear a new Taylor swift song for the first timeā€¦ that ā€œoh I didnā€™t know someone could put this into words- someone who doesnā€™t know me but still understands my soulā€ 

Same feeling. 

The same feeling I had when I read still life with woodpecker for the first time 

Same feeling when I actually understood hamlet and that one iconic monologue and how when each actor annunciates the words differently it changes the inflection. 

Same feeling I had when Barney asked Robin to marry him in himym 

Same feeling I had when I found out that Gojo and Geto in jjk would still meet up in the ten years they were enemies 

What I mean to say is 

5 ā­ļø but like donā€™t ask me about it unless you wanna hear about me being abducted by aliens and how they replaced my kidney.  And donā€™t ask me why i might cry spontaneously just thinking about them. 

Objectively trashy and toxic but with lines that makes you stare at the wall for ten minutes every five pages making the book go on for longer then it should but also your totally fine with it because you wanna stay there with them for as long as possible