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Me: I love short stories!

Also me: why aren’t these stories longer

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Ok on one hand, I love being right and being able to predict things in books. But on the other hand, every time I predict a twist and it comes true I’m super disappointed.

(This is about ‘X House’ by J.T. Ellison from In These Hallowed Halls, btw. Started off good but the ending was very unsatisfying.)

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36% thru In These Hallowed Halls. I’m really enjoying the short story format.

Some stories are definitely more enjoyable (for me!) than others, but overall I’m enjoying all the stories in this book.

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I’m officially DNF-ing Foxglove. 😬 might revisit at another time, but right now it’s not holding my attention.

I’m on chapter 20, 44% in I think. To me that’s plenty of time to have tried a book and give up.

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Libby wth you say this is the unabridged audiobook but just jumped from ch. 19 to ch. 25 ??? Hello???

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The second I decide to stop reading Foxglove and my Libby audiobook rental of it becomes available lol

I’ll give it a second (or 3rd) chance and see if the audiobook can notice me to keep going.

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There could littlerly be a huge meteorite about to crash into earth and kill everyone. Yet ya all would just point at it and say "chiken little refrance" or some shit like that

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Libby is great until you are like “I’d like to read this book now and not in 12 weeks,” and they are like “not only do u have to wait 12 weeks, you’ll also probably miss your window to accept the hold and have to wait another 12 weeks after that.”

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I’ve kind of fallen off reading Foxglove. I didn’t love where the plot was going and the characters aren’t very interesting to me (at least at the moment). I might give this book a break and read something else for awhile and then revisit.

I am still on hold for the audiobook of Foxglove thru Libby, but I’ve been waiting for a few weeks now and they are reporting I still have 2 more weeks until it’s available. I wanted to listen at work but I think I’m just going to pause the book for now.

But on another note, I’ve started reading In These Hallowed Halls: a Dark Academia Anthology. It’s a collection of short stories and the two or 3 stories I’ve read so far have been interesting. I originally bought it to read before Halloween but clearly that didn’t happen 🫣.

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Anyone read Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare? It’s been on my TBR list for a while and I see that it’s on sale right now, wondering if I should go ahead and get it.

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My new book that I’m trying to finish is Foxglove (Belladonna #2) by Adalyn Grace. I’m about 41% of the way through the book.

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Heir of Fire is now done!!

There were definitely some slower parts (I feel like there was a lot of the same stuff in Aelin/Cel’s training scenes with Rowan that didn’t make me want to keep reading) but there was enough happening otherwise that was engaging.

I usually struggle with books change around character perspectives every few chapters so I didn’t love that, but I did like meeting the new characters.

Manon is cool, Dorian is great and I feel bad for whatever’s about to happen to him, chaol is still meh, and I loved the dynamic between RowAelin (when we got to see them being nice to each other).

There were a few twists in this book that I felt were a little… random (spoilers: sorscha)?? I love when you can go back and revisit a book and see all the clues that you missed the first time. But this book didn’t have a lot of “clues” to the twists, I don’t think.

I think I’m going to take a break from the Throne of Glass series for a moment, since I have a few other TBR books I’d like to get to before Queen of Shadows.

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Ch. 65 heir of fire

- Dorian and Chaol 😭

-fleetfloot returns!

- why don’t I remember any of this happening

-like Dorian having the collar put on him??? This is news to me

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Ch. 64 Heir of Fire

- Sorcha was a rebel the whole time? I expected something like this but have to admit I’m a little disappointed

- also, her death 😳 brutal

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Ch. 60 Heir of Fire

(Sorry for the short break there! Work was busy and I did a little traveling recently, but I’m back and trying to finish this book!)

- 90% done

Rowaelin comments:

- Rowan is free finally!

-kinda funny that the second he’s free he swears himself to aelin/celaena. Like my guy the blood oath with Maeve wasn’t even cold yet 😂

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Heir of Fire:

86% of the way thru! I feel like things are finally starting to happen and the book is almost over lol

Foxglove:

32% of the way thru! I like the main character, Signa, but the rest of the characters in this book leave something to be desired. I don’t know if I like how they’ve introduced Fate or how Signa’s identity is being revealed.

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Ok I googled it, per Reddit it was someone named Bas but that sorry line was probably forgotten by SJM 😂 glad to know I’m not the only one who was confused by that tho

I lowkey thought it was going to be Luca ngl

Who the heck betrayed them