#lauren at mirror

[atsev]

Mirror Palais collection V ‘The Return of Glamour’

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[khairnoir]

lauren fern for mirror palais

[babyjewl]

Lauren Fern for Mirror Palais

[wishesbythesea]

Lauren Fern for Mirror Palais

[papers-pamphlet]

Ignore how 1. Alexander wrote to John about André after his hanging and 2. John was a prisoner of war at the time. I uh,, just wanted to draw Laurens getting rizzed up by André too

[of-fear-and-love]

Hotel interiors from Written on the Wind (1956)

Art direction by Robert Clatworthy, Alexander Golitzen Set decoration by Russell A. Gausman, Julia Heron

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[fawnvelveteen]

Lauren Hutton by Richard Avedon, 1973.

[thedopecollation]

Mirror Palais ss24 campaign “return to glamour” with Lauren Fern | shot by Anafer Flores | creative direction by Marcelo Gaia | production by Natalie Stein

[khairnoir]

lauren fern for mirror palais

[blurrypetals]

Powerless by Lauren Roberts - blurrypetals review

originally posted jul. 14, 2024 - ★★☆☆☆

If somebody put The Hunger Games, From Blood and Ash, Red Queen, a dash of The Darkest Minds, or some other combination of other romantasy, death game, and superpower stories popular within the last 5 to 10 years in a blender, they would get this book.

Typically, being derivative of something is not always a death sentence for me. In fact, sometimes it's a good thing, so long as I like the thing its derivative of and it also has its own personality.

Powerless...doesn't have personality, and even if it did have one, it wouldn't have a personality all its own. This book is the person you know who collects other people's character traits to get you to like it but has no way of making those character traits a part of its identity. It is, ultimately, hollow.

You needn't look any further than Kai when it comes to this Frankenstein's monster of a YA novel. He is every single YA novel protagonist all at once. I have met him at least a dozen times, but all those other times were surely better than this. His dialogue is forced, like an experiment grown in a lab and trained to spout snarky comebacks, nothing organic or fresh about him. He is utterly unoriginal and uninteresting, completely predictable in his every emotion and action.

The lack of surprise stretches to the rest of the book, too. It held my attention well enough to avoid hitting the DNF pile, but only barely. When telling my husband about the premise of this book just after I started it, I predicted there would be a revolution, that Paeydn's ordinariness would be revealed, and once it was revealed later in this book (as I was that certain it would be), that Kai would love her too much to kill her like he's supposed to. Guess who has two thumbs and hit the nail on the head? This disappointed reviewer!

And I really am just disappointed. This book was extremely hyped up all over the internet, I felt so sure there would be something here for me to enjoy. I was so sure, I even had my husband buy it for me for my birthday! While I didn't hate it, I was severely let down. In that same conversation with my husband I mentioned in the previous paragraph, I told him I'd read this book before, even though I hadn't read this book before, and it wasn't a book I was particularly excited to be reading again.

I don't think I'll be continuing this series, unless I really get the urge for a good hate-read, but I don't even think I hate this book enough for a hate-read. I'm honestly just tired of books like this, ones that don't bring anything new to the table and aren't even fun. If this is the kind of stuff people on TikTok are losing their shit over, I can't wait for them to find books that are actually original, then they'll really lose their minds.

[juliareed]

Her name is Julia Thorne, merely an alias. She goes by another name, a name you're quite familiar with.

[glassrunner]

Chapters: 11/? Fandom: Mirror's Edge Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Nomad (Mirror's Edge), Original Female Character(s), Faith Connors, Icarus (Mirror's Edge), Noah Kekai, Plastic (Mirror's Edge) Additional Tags: Cyberpunk AU, Canon-Typical Violence, Biomechanical Augmentations, the title is also from the Furi OST because i am incapable of not using songs as titles 

Summary: Time is a relentless hunter. Nomad's not a Runner, so he figures he'll just have to get even better at hiding... until it's his turn to flip the hourglass.