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An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson
Did not finish book. Stopped at 28%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 28%.
i lost the library loan and i'm not invested enough to renew it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Harp of Kings by Juliet Marillier
Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.
this book isn't worth making my tinnitus worse
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
he healed the dog as a wedding gift..... i am unWELL
i'm sitting at my desk with a massive knot in my throat lmao. i can't believe this is the end! what a privilege it is to find something that feels like it was made for you. this series is a love letter to all the faerie stories i grew up with.
admittedly, this book does have a different vibe from the other two books, as in there’s one major threat instead of two or three mini mysteries. i do wish we could've had a bit more emily and wendell page time. i also missed wendell's customary 1 journal entry contribution to the group project, but i see why heather fawcett decided against it this time around.
but again, everything i adore about emily wilde towers over any complaint. i remain so impressed with heather fawcett's ability to cleverly tie things back to previous instalments, including one reveal halfway through that got a massive OH SHIT out of me at like.. 11:30 pm. the characters are delightful (at least twice fawcett decided it would be a lovely idea to put my heart through the shredder i have more grey hairs than i started with because of worrying if shadow was going to make it to the end and wendell’s death was VERY MEAN >:( ); and as always, the prose is prosing.
i love emily and wendell so much. their relationship and love for each other is divine :'). obsessed with that cranky yet kind faerie scholar and her melodramatic emotional support himbo. no emily, wendell's taste in silly romance novels isn't questionable- it’s iconic, actually! seeing emily's growth as a character from book 1 to book 3 was the most rewarding part of all. i'm gonna miss my babies deeply.
final instalments rarely wind up being my favourite, and i think i need to ruminate on where compendium falls in my rankings, as i do think it comes last atm (picking between encyclopaedia and map is the closest i've come to the feeling of picking a favourite child). but i felt the same about map immediately after reading it, and that went on to ruin my entire 2024 reading year after giving it a few days. so if you see me rereading this very shortly, that’s why. for science.
maybe it's too early to call, but i don't care! this is my favourite trilogy ever and i'm going to treasure it for years to come.
generally, i am of the opinion that stories are given meaning when they end and authors should know when to leave well enough alone. but the ending is open ended enough for more potential adventures sooo........ 👉🏻👈🏻 emily wilde my mother please come back
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
5.0
i'm sitting at my desk with a massive knot in my throat lmao. i can't believe this is the end! what a privilege it is to find something that feels like it was made for you. this series is a love letter to all the faerie stories i grew up with.
admittedly, this book does have a different vibe from the other two books, as in there’s one major threat instead of two or three mini mysteries. i do wish we could've had a bit more emily and wendell page time. i also missed wendell's customary 1 journal entry contribution to the group project, but i see why heather fawcett decided against it this time around.
but again, everything i adore about emily wilde towers over any complaint. i remain so impressed with heather fawcett's ability to cleverly tie things back to previous instalments, including one reveal halfway through that got a massive OH SHIT out of me at like.. 11:30 pm. the characters are delightful (at least twice fawcett decided it would be a lovely idea to put my heart through the shredder
i love emily and wendell so much. their relationship and love for each other is divine :'). obsessed with that cranky yet kind faerie scholar and her melodramatic emotional support himbo. no emily, wendell's taste in silly romance novels isn't questionable- it’s iconic, actually! seeing emily's growth as a character from book 1 to book 3 was the most rewarding part of all. i'm gonna miss my babies deeply.
final instalments rarely wind up being my favourite, and i think i need to ruminate on where compendium falls in my rankings, as i do think it comes last atm (picking between encyclopaedia and map is the closest i've come to the feeling of picking a favourite child). but i felt the same about map immediately after reading it, and that went on to ruin my entire 2024 reading year after giving it a few days. so if you see me rereading this very shortly, that’s why. for science.
maybe it's too early to call, but i don't care! this is my favourite trilogy ever and i'm going to treasure it for years to come.
generally, i am of the opinion that stories are given meaning when they end and authors should know when to leave well enough alone. but the ending is open ended enough for more potential adventures sooo........ 👉🏻👈🏻 emily wilde my mother please come back
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
5.0
it's comfort media at this point. i take forever to read it because i keep flicking back to previous passages, and i'm faced with the harrowing fact that, eventually, i have to read books that aren't this one. genuinely i have never read something so immaculately, eerily, and embarrassingly tailored (lol) to my tastes. thank u to heather fawcett for writing these books for me specifically, very cool of her.
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
5.0
foreshadowing so craftily hidden it altered my brain chemistry. rereading this cemented it as one of my favourite books and (though i can’t rank my faves to save my life lol) has a very compelling argument for the top spot.
Wildwood by Colin Meloy
Did not finish book. Stopped at 67%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 67%.
my own fault for taking a 2 month break from this lol. the illustrations are beautiful, but it’s really starting to drag and continuing the extra 200 pages to see how it ends doesn’t feel worth it anymore.
i think i’ll just stick to seeing the film when it comes out.
i think i’ll just stick to seeing the film when it comes out.
Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
4.0
- ily moira quirk
- this book’s main sin is veering into the rf kuang school of clubbing the reader over the head with The Point™️ instead of letting them come to their own conclusions naturally, as well as a few small things like thomil and sciona’s romantic subplot making me internally raise several eyebrows and an attempted sexual assault scene that was handled quite gracelessly imo. but god damn was it compulsively readable (listenable? lol) and the ending did ultimately, in an emotional sense, catch me slippin.
A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft
Did not finish book. Stopped at 26%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 26%.
in theory this has a lot of elements i love. in practice the worldbuilding is clumsy, i keep getting the characters mixed up because they’re so boring, and the romance is the definition of “i love the lack of energy she brings, go girl give us nothing!”
idk if i don’t care that i missed an entire dialogue exchange while trying to wrangle my christmas tree into standing up straight, it’s probably a sign i should stop.
idk if i don’t care that i missed an entire dialogue exchange while trying to wrangle my christmas tree into standing up straight, it’s probably a sign i should stop.