#but aghhhhhfdkhfj if it didn't raise my ire in every way
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nothing like staying up aggressively late to finish a book that you don't realize till halfway through is kind of infuriating and wrong and yet you have to see the end so you can close the lid on the fury vs. the healing joy of going off to read a book and then reading it all in one sitting because it was glorious and exactly suited to what you needed to read at that moment!
#this is a true story btw#i wanted this book to be good so badly#it is very popular atm and it drew me in with the promises of game development & friendship and my eyes lit UP#and the first third is indeed a beautiful meditation on friendship!#but then i spent the last 2/3 being full of rage because one of the two protagonists just....turns around and decides to hate the other one#with nary a thought of explaining it. and yes i did self-id too closely with the other protag#but it was a fun stupid haze of fury that i was reading through to figure out how they finally dealt with it#only they didn't REALLY and it just was basically unacknowledged and i guess meant to be inspiring and true to lifelong friendships#but aghhhhhfdkhfj if it didn't raise my ire in every way#it was well written don't get me wrong but i got SO upset and then it is just! unresolved!#and me who likes cathartically sad or happy or bittersweet endings only haaates to be left with unresolved grey area ones#but then i got to totter off and go read a very short sweet patricia mckillip book and all is well now >:D#i was just reading it with my mug of cocoa in my hand going i love u mystically beautiful prose! i love you strange dreamy fantasy!#(part of me is also wondering if i could read 13 books between now and the end of the year to fulfill my 100)#(at the rate with that tiny little book [winter rose] and beauty next week it's....possible actually? but anyway.)#reading tag#a fun silly little story probably only funny to me but you're all hearing it despite that
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