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I’m re-reading The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune. I’ve been feeling quite crappy this last couple of days so I decided to read something comforting.

As I've been reading it, it boggles me that 1) Nick doesn't realize that Seth is in love with him and 2) Nick doesn't realize that he is in love with Seth.

likw WHAAAAT?

the kind of things that Nick thinks about Seth. How he is so pure for this world, how he is the most precious person for him besides his dad. Like, come on buddy.

Also, someone telling you they love you is nice, but Seth decided to become an Extraordinary, lose weight and train his powers. All because Nick's mom was killed. Because he wanted to make the city safe so that Nick would never lose someone else he loves. That, is beautiful.

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This book is amazing, really good. The story, the characters. It can be a dark story, for a ya.

Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

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i feel like most of the posts i post in this blog is mostly about The Extraordinaries series by TJ Klune but I don't care. It is one of my favorite series of all time.

I love it.

This post contains SPOILERS (you've been alerted)

yesterday I was almost done with Heat Wave (the last book) and I was thinking how grateful I am that I read these books. I have re-read the first two books 3 times now and I just re-read the final book for the first time since it came out.

This story still has such an emotional chokehold on me. It is so good. Nick is such a ridiculous character, I love how he is. How he is written and how he develops in the three books. I love how unapologetic he is.

I would just like to share some scenes that have had such an emotional impact on me (i don't know how to begin to explain why but I still want to).

In the first book, The Extraordinaries, for me is when they talk about how Nick and Seth met. When they were just 6 years old (maybe 7). The way I cried and still cry when I read it, says a lot. If you've read it, you know. It is the swing set scene. where Nick met Seth while he was alone swinging on this old set while eating chocolate pudding. How Seth was just a shy little boy and you can feel how his world turned technicolor when he met Nick. He was just a baby, had lost his parents in a train crash, and meeting Nick helped him. I cry when I read it, but it is nothing compared to how much I cry when I read a similar scene.

when Nick's dad was in the hospital, and Martha (Seth's aunt) visits Nick. She told him about the little boy who had lost a lot and was still grieving. How he didn't talk a lot and how her and Bob (Seth's uncle) were so worried about him. Oh my God, but when she says how he came home and kept just talking about this boy he met called Nicholas Bell and how they were going to be best friends forever.

Again, the emotional hold those two parallel scenes have on me, on my heart is unreal. I love them so much. TJ Klune does an amazing job weaving this story where you care about all the characters that appear on it. Minor or not. and I love it.

As of right now, in Flash Fire I think my favorite scene is when Nick tells Seth that he loves him. In the prom. When they were fighting against Ice and Smoke. How Seth smiles (MY TENDER HEART CANNOT). Don’t get me wrong. The whole book is so unbelievably good (all of them are). They are in the midst of chaos and that scene made me cry so damn hard again.

In Heat Wave, the whole book is on a totally different plane compared to the other two. In the story, Nick’s mother has been dead for 4 years now yet somehow she re-appeared. When you read the book, it is the real villain’s wife that can shapeshift (among other stuff). That whole thing is unreal. It is so cruel. It is so unbelievably cruel. Nick and his Dad went through all the grieving process. They still had issues in the first and second book but they worked through it so well. Becoming stronger. And then this. This was so mean. It is crazy to me how TJ Klune was like: you know how to write this book? PAIN. That’s how. And then he had to double down by killing Owen.

Like…how dare you? It is still pretty freaking good though.

Objectively, I know why Owen had to die. By the way that he was, where they all gave him multiple opportunities to turn around (in the first and last book, he is not present in the second one) but he just didn’t. I know that dying was the only way to resolve it. It was pretty hard though. He was just a kid, a villain, but just a kid. When you read the books, you find out that his parents were not good. His dad experimenting on him, used him like he was a tool (which probably was only the tip of the iceberg). When I think about him I think about Akito Sohma (if you’ve seen Fruits Basket you know). Akito was the source of torment to all the members of the zodiac. Hurt them physically, emotionally and psychologically. You find out Akito was hurt by her mother. Which, doesn’t justify it. Nothing ever does. It just allows you to understand them better but not to totally gloss over everything. Owen felt that same way. Which is why it hurt how he died. Rip.

One of my favorite scenes is after they find out that Nick’s mom is not Nick’s mom but an imposter. Nick and his dad have to live at Jazz’s house until the home is repaired. It makes my heart hurt when Nick is woken up by his dad. His dad snuggles for a while with Nick and cries his heart out (along with Nick). It feels like they have to go through the grieving process again. It is not the same though. Because they didn’t lose Nick’s mom again. She was never there. But they toyed with their emotions. It is just so twisted and so jarring.

It might seem cliche but my other favorite scenes are in the epilogue. When they are 26 (Jazz, Nick and Seth) and 27 (Gibby). It is Jazz’s and Gibby’s wedding. My favorite, favorite part is when Nick is saying how he has decided to propose to Seth. Using the wedding ring that his mother, Jenny Bell, gave her father. Only for Seth to also propose to Nick using his own father’s ring. I cry just a little harder in this scene. It isn’t quite the same as having matching necklaces. Like some couples do. It is so much more impactful. Nick’s dad loved his mom from the moment he met her. The life they build together. The pain they both felt when she died. The fact that he gave Nick his ring. It makes it so much sweeter. As well as for Seth. He loves his aunt and uncle. They became his parents in all the ways that mattered. But he always kept close to his heart the fact that he lost his own parents. There is this instance in the first book where Nick is at Seth’s home and sees the pictures on the wall. And he talks about how Seth doesn’t have a lot of memories from his parents but the ones that he does have he protects them so fiercely. So the fact that he gave Nick his father’s ring is also so impactful.

My last favorite little scene is almost at the end of the epilogue. When Jazz and Gibby are kissing at their wedding and Nick says how they took a picture right at that moment. Where Nick is cheering loud and Seth is quietly smiling. jazz and Gibby have a sweet kiss. And how he hung that picture in his home with Seth. Right next to the one he has of his mom. The one at the lighthouse. My heart cries.

It is such an amazing book and I wish the fandom was a lot bigger and that it also had a lot of fanart. I wish it had a graphic novel or a manga. And a good animated show (not a live action). I wish a lot more people talked about this series. Hopefully it will get the recognition it deserves.

I don’t know if I had a point for this post but I just wanted to make it. I don’t have a lot of people that have read it and I wish I had someone to talk about it with.

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What is up?

(Totally unrelated to this post, but I hate it when someone says “what’s up?” Or “what is up?” And some smartass answers with “the sky jajajajja” I hate it so much. It makes my whole soul and my whole life cringe so hard. Also when it’s new years and people go up to you and say “see you next year jajajaja” ew or “haven’t seen you since last year ajajajajaj” ewwwwwww).

So after I finished reading The Extraordinaries I was on the fence in regards to what read next? Don’t get me wrong. I have a ridiculous amount of books to choose from, but it is hard sometimes to choose and make the right choice. So for me it was between If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio, Spell Bound by F.T. Lukens, Happy Place by Emily Henry (which I already started but put down to read the extraordinaries), All the Hidden Paths by Fox Meadows (the sequel to A Strange and Stubborn Endurance) Kindling by Traci Chee (which I have the ARC for [what???] but I haven’t read it and the book is out but whatever) and Midnight in Everwood by M.A Kuzniar.

I don’t know why but I ended up choosing Midnight in Everwood. It is a book that I have previously started reading but just stopped. I don’t think I know or remember what else I decided to read instead (but that’s not important). As you can probably guess from the cover it is a re-telling of The Nutcracker. Which I love. Granted, I’ve only ever seen the Brarbie and the nutcracker movie. But I’ve seen so many tiktoks of the ballet, from the Royal Opera House and the Bolshoi Ballet. It looks so magnificent and magical. It is all snow and sparkles (and some creepy af mice).

One of my dreams is to someday a) watch a small production of the nutcracker in person where I live currently and b) to watch the nutcracker at one of the famous ballet houses (Royal Opera or the Bolshoi).

This book is a work of fiction, for adults. But it is quite the cozy and comforting read. As of where I am right now, I know it is a pretty nice reading. Something you can enjoy during the winter months w a hot cup of anything (cider or hot chocolate) and curl up on a fuzzy blanket while it is snowing (slightly not a full out blizzard).

After I am done reading this book I don’t know what I will read. I am pre-ordering some books and I pre-ordered some books that will be coming at some point. I ordered The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang and there are also the books I listed I wanted to read before I landed on this one. I guess we’ll see.

Also I feel like re-reading Red, White and Royal Blue. Which I only want to because I re-watched the movie and I do remember a lot and know they made quite a lot of changes, but not quite the deal break for me. What is a deal break for me though is the cover for the paperback. The pink one with those goofy looking Henry and Alex. I don’t like it. Alex looks so weird in that drawing and Henry too. All I can think of is that, this cover had to go through approvals. Multiple people had to probably make a vote and landed on that. If someone were to tell me it was Casey who drew them I would be like “okay well” but yeah. I now I sound like a lot. I am weird but I just. It’s not like any of the other books I have. I honestly like the movie tie-in cover they released when the movie came out (I know, blasphemy). I want to buy this collector’s edition hardcover one that is so pretty. It has no Alex or Henry in the cover. Only on the inside and they are so cute. But whatever. This little paragraph has no real purpose just me complaining sorry.

Well hopefully I will finish Midnight in Everwood before The Emperor and the Endless Palace arrived (I write as I literally get a notification that it arrived and I can pick it up, ugh, I feel sick today, I cannot go for it). And hopefully I will remember to write something about the book once I am done.

So it was decided I will read The Emperor and the Endless Palace after this book (by me, just now) I don’t know what I will read after. It is between….all the books that I own.

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The extraordinaries by TJ Klune has the potential of having a graphic novel made for it. I would literally die if they do make a graphic novel. I mean they made a graphic novel for After by Anna Todd and a manga for Fangirl. Haven’t read After, but the Fangirl manga is fire.

If I could only have three wishes. It would be graphic novel or manga for each of the extraordinaries series book.

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She for real is the best…such a legend

"Miss Conduct will handle the evil twink with assistance from the DILF Squad."

What a line.

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S P O I L E R A L E R T

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You have been warned.

So I am reading the heat wave book by Tj Klune (which I love so much). And I am confused? But also outraged?

So in the story the main character Nick Bell is a teenage boy who is in love with extraordinaries. He loves them. He had a crush on one shadow star (extraordinary in his own city and his own sort of ex-boyfriend Owen Burke), he even wrote fan fiction about him and shadow star. Though it ends up that shadow star was one of the real villains all along (the second one being his own father Simon Burke) and the one they thought was the villain, pyro Storm ends up being the hero but also Nick’s childhood best friend Seth Gray. They end up falling in love and started to date.

Anyways, in the first book it’s said that Nick’s mom had died two years before the story took place, she went to the bank and she never came back. Him and his father grieved…a lot, which is understandable. But it was this incident that made Seth Gray decide to become pyro Storm and keep the city safe. To protect Nick and the ones he loves (which I’ve never heard anything more romantic in my entire life).

In the second book, flash fire, Nick ends up finding out that 1) his own mom used to be a telekinetic extraordinary that kept the city safe years ago that went by the hero name Guardian and 2) that he inherited those powers. A lot of shit happens afterwards but they end up saving the day (Nick and Pyro Storm aka Seth Gray). By the end of the book two things happen (again) 1) Nick receives a suit by one of his superhero colleagues which is an homage to Guardian, his mom and 2) that his mom is actually alive and moonlighting as a new extraordinary called TK.

When TK was revealed I was like: oh it’s the mom. I never expected to be right. But by the end of the book when she is actually the mom all I could think of was: wtf happened? How is she just going to come back and resume her life? What about nick?

And then this book starts and at the beginning of the book there were some scenes where Nick will remember something that didn’t quite add up (well several scenes). First, he recounts a happenstance in the first book where he, Nick, fell from a bridge and he stopped midair, just floating. Because of the second book we were lead to believed that it was Nick but in this book he remember his mom being there next to the dad and that she was the one who saved him. But I’m the real scene it was just the dad and he is normal so he couldn’t have done that. I thought, hm that’s weird. But also when he was remembering a moment when he found his dad crying after the funeral and Nick couldn’t do anything, or rather, didn’t know what to do. Which is understandable. But then he decides it was just a dream. However I felt that the emotion he’s feeling at that “dream” feels to real for him.

Second, there’s this thing where he keeps mentioning Before and After, this is how he identifies the timeline of before his mother’s death and after it had happened. So he keeps saying them, but then he always keeps questioning before what? After what? But also memories of when Nick would meet TK and wonder why he would act as if it wasn’t his own mother. That’s when I could see a humongous red flag coming. I started to theorize that the mom was manipulating all of their memories. And I mean of all of them, the dad, Nick, Seth, his parents, Gibby, her parents, jazz and her parents. As well as other people involved in their lives. But I thought there’s no way she would do something so cruel. Because of how they describe her constantly, she was an amazing woman. Nice. Beautiful. Smart. Yes, we don’t know what actually happened in that bank or during those two years, but never to alter the memories of everyone.

Third, Nick had a dream, but it was actually a memory. It was of the day that the mom had died. When she told him she was going to the bank. In the dream he knew he would receive a call from his father, and that he will say that something had happened to the mom. Nick ended up waking up remembering what had happened and then the mom came in and he was scared. He was scared and she used her powers on him. I was livid. I can’t believe what I am reading. That cannot be the mom. I don’t know there’s something fishy going on right now. Nick constantly forgets that his mom is around, that she lives with them. He was setting up the table and forgot about her, he talks to his father as if they are just the two of them.

I don’t know. I don’t think that person is the mom. I am sad though. Because if I’m right and that is not the mom, then…that’s a whole new level of cruel. If it’s not the mom then I believe Simón Burke is the mastermind behind this. Because Nick has gone through the grieving process, he accepted that his mom was gone and while I understand that if she was protecting herself by faking her own death why not just say it? It will be hard to accept but I know that Nick and her father would come around. So why wipe their memories and pretend she was there all along? I don’t know. I have no idea how this could be the better way of going about this. Because it’s cruel. And it will end up breaking Nick’s heart.

Also why hasn’t Seth said anything about this? Originally he decided to become Pyro Storm because Nick’s mom had being murdered. Because he wanted to protect him. So if she never died what does he think his motivation was to put on that suit?

I am confused and I am outraged. I can’t believe what I’m reading with the more I read. I don’t know. I think the mom really is dead and this is just one sick trick of Simon Burke to get all the extraordinaries he can to experiment on them and getting rid of them.

We’ll see I guess. I’ll post an update later.

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This one I am re-reading because I love it. And I NEVER reread a book. I might be doing a live update as I go

Start date: ? I don’t remember though I put it on the Goodreads I can’t find it T____T

End date: ?

Rating: 100/10

Spice: I don’t know it’s teens/10

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As promised, I want to show the books that I recently pre-ordered at the indigo website.

I absolutely love the cover. I am an absolute sucker for covers. I can’t wait for what the story holds. Do I want the main character to end up with the crown prince? I would love it but it’s not my story.

The story about the daughter of the moon goddess who was a secret from the immortal empire for years, had to flea her home, leaving her mom trapped in the moon. She meets with the crown prince of the empire and becomes his study partner. She learns a lot about the empire but more importantly she learns to use the bow and arrow. She then embarks in a supposed impossible mission to free her mom. It’s such a good book.

The second book I preordered is

I love this story. I had seen it around either Tiktok or tumblr and I thought it was cute and then I read the book….wow. The story is cute and so good. I love it. I can’t wait for this book to come out later this year.

Luc is the son of two rockstars, mom that got just one album hit and the douche dad that abandoned them both. Well in his mid twenties (I believe I don’t remember) after a scandal breaks his job is in jeopardy so the only way he finds out of this one is to get a respectable guy to pretend to be his boyfriend. And so he enters, Oliver Blackwood. A perfect man (i believe). Thought they both carry a lot of baggage (though not as much as luc) they manage to get through it as they both catch feelings for each other.

This is the other book I got

I talked about it in another post. I can’t wait to read it. But it will be after the book so this is ever after.

It’s about arranged marriage. A man that was betrothed to this girl for political reasons, he finds out that he has a pretence for men. However, before the whole union is “ruined” the family of the girl decide to betrothed him to the brother of the girl. The guy he’s supposed to marry was certainly thrown to a loop, however I think he will become to care for his husband (and vice versa). It sounds real intriguing that’s why I decided to get it. 

The one I keep constantly mentioning is So this is ever after by FT Lukens.

This is the cover. It’s so cute. I love queer books (though I do read more gay books, don’t know why).

This book reminds me to Carry on by rainbow rowell and The extraordinaries by tj Klune. This is about a boy, Arek, who was chosen to free his country from the tyranny of an evil guy. He and his 5 friends (including his best friend, Matt, who he has a crush on) go and succeed in the mission. Though Arek ends up succeeding in the mission he is crowned king in the meantime they go and find the legitimate heir to the throne, who ends up being dead, thus he is made king for real. And now that he has an entire nation to think about he really only wants to confess his feelings. (I found that extremely cute). When he becomes king he has to get married by his eighteenth birthday or wither into nothing. He then tried to woo his friends (that’s what the dust jacket says but I’m confused since he has a crush on his best friend). Anyways, I expect a lot from this book.

The very last book I will like to talk about (the last one I swear) is An arrow to the moon by Emily X.R. Pan.

So yeah, once again gorgeous cover (please let me be, though I know I need help, it’s a disease). This book is about two characters Hunter Lee and Luna Chang. I will admit I don’t know much about the book, but with what I was reading these two characters have strict parents (that’s the assumption I have). But I may be wrong, in the dust jacket it says that it’s a retelling of a Chinese myth and Romeo and Juliet (though it better not end like Romeo and Juliet), though I don’t know much of the Chinese mythology considering their names, hunter and Luna (moon in Spanish) it might have something to do with the moon goddess. I will admit that the thing about the Chinese mythology and their names reminded me to the book Daughter of the moon goddess, and that’s why I bought it but details schmetails.

Anyways. I don’t know in what order I will read the last two books mentioned, probably the one so this is ever after. But we’ll see.

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I finished re-reading The Extraordinaries so naturally I started re-reading the sequel, Flash Fire.

The conclusion of The Extraordinaries was everything. It has action, laughs and romance. I absolutely love Nick and Seth to pieces. They are just some of the most adorable characters I’ve ever read about in a while. They are just so cute. They love each other so much and I just can’t. When they get too sweet or too emotional I just freaking cry. That’s how good the story is.

But anyways, Flash Fire is just so much more. We still don’t know what the actual main antagonist is really after. You ask me and I’m like “I have no ducking idea”. The Cap thinks he wants revenge for what happened with his son, but honestly, I don’t think he cares that much. And I know there’s a whole lot more going on. And if it does end up actually being about revenge i don’t know how I will feel or how I will react.

If you still feel like you don’t know if you should read it, I’ve read 514 books in my life (and counting),don’t know if it’s high or low or in the middle but whatever, but I’ve never, never reread a book before. And I am rereading this series.

SPOILERS:

I love how miss conduct calls Nick a Twinkie. And Seth “Honeybunch”. I love her. I love when Nick is like: I wanna be you when I grow up. I’m like: boy, me too. She’s just so…I don’t know. She’s sassy and so cool. Anyways.

Not really a spoiler but, whenever anyone is like “Nicky, no” and Nick just answers “Nicky, yes”. I laugh so hard. 

When Cap came over to talk to Aaron and Nick (due to a press conference, they thought Cap was working with the main antagonist, so he came to clear the air) and he basically slipped that he knew that Seth was Pyro Storm. And they were freaking out 😂😂. Cap’s explanation is everything. He basically said that Nick is not the kind of person that would two-time Seth and I quote “the Nick I knew wouldn’t do something as mean as two-timing the boy he’s been in love with for years—” that was just so great. It’s just like how Jazz found out. By being purely observant.

The whole Seth telling Nick he loves him, the whole prom thing (even though it all kinda goes to hell), and then FINALLY when Nick tells Seth that he loves him back, it’s just…ah 🥺 

Nick talking about “the rest of their lives” had me bawling. I cried when they were going to prom and the way Nick described seeing Seth in his tux. Like nothing else mattered. Like everything else dissolved around them. Oh how I wish to have that same experience. And for someone to think the same thing for me. But when Nick talked about the rest of their lives. Omg. I love them.

The dead magician tux. That’s it. I just fucken cant. I love Nick so much. He’s just so unique and so cute. I would kill, KILL to be able to see him in his tux with Seth next to him.

Fucking Owen escaped from wherever the hell he was being held in, but I was like, I’ll deal with you later, because right now, my heart is full due to all the queer love ❤️

Then my heart broke when Seth decided to tell everyone he was Pyro Storm. Not because he did but because of what happened afterwards. Though I don’t understand why people were being mean. He always gave it his all to protect the people in their stupid city. Would he burn the city for Nick? Maybe but still. Seth is the most adorable and I am with Nick, he should be protected at all cost.

The costume 🥺 the one that miss conduct gifts Nick. I cried. The freaking note she writes him. I cried harder. And Nick….😭 taking up the hero name Guardian in honor of his mother. Wow. I’ve read a lot of books and it’s easy for me to see sometimes where the book is headed. There are some exemptions obviously, and this one is actually one of them. I don’t think I saw him taking up that name for his new hero endeavour. Though I think as I write this, I should’ve.

And Seth…taking Nick’s position in Lighthouse. It made my heart so full.

The end though!!!! Like those last four pages (I think they were four). The FUCKING REVEAL!! Freaking Jenny Bell (Nick’s mom that supposedly died 2 years before the events in the first book) is alive. Though I already knew that. I suspected it when they kept mentioning the extraordinary TK. Though I was still surprised I was right. Though there better be an amazing explanation of why she faked her death in the third and final book of the series. I’m saying this because both Nick and Aaron mourned her, still are. She obviously didn’t do it on a whim I know that but that destroyed them so much.

T_____T I can’t wait for the conclusion.

Heat wave coming out July 19, 2022

Let me put it here, I know that Seth basically hung his cape in this book but I just know, in the climax all of the good extraordinaries are gonna band together. And then Pyro Storm will make an appearance. I just know it.

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Halo!

2 posts in one day, I’d say that’s pretty great. If only I could post the other books I have finished this year.

I went to indigo yesterday (I also went to Chapters on a different city earlier this week too but like I don’t care, my wallet does. But I don’t).

I’ll do a mini book haul (although there’s nothing mini about it because it’s like 7 books in total but whatever).

Let’s start with what I got in Chapters. First, hardcover edition of The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune.

And you might be wondering, don’t you already have one since you re-read it a while ago? You would be correct I do already have it. But I have a boring trade paperback edition (boring part is not to reflect on the story, the story is truly amazing). It’s just that this version is the one with the reversible dust jacket

Oh I love it so much. My Flash Fire copy is a reversible dust jacket too (that I also absolutely love) and my Heat Wave copy (the last book in this trilogy, that I already pre-ordered) is reversible too. I love it because it’s just unique, and the little drawings honestly give so much Nick energy it makes me love them even more.

I love the cover of this book. I am an absolute sucker for beautiful covers and this series is no exception. I have The City of Brass (the first one, this series is a trilogy and the kingdom of copper is the sequel). Oh it’s just breathtaking how beautiful they are.

I got this new book by Alexis Hall. I really like this author. I’ve read Boyfriend Material, which is a fake dating tripe, but make it gay. I loved it. The sequel (it’s a trilogy too) Husband Material is coming out later this year. She also has this other book coming out called Paris Daillencourt is about to crumble, which is like an English baker show kind of focus but gay (I believe). And I can’t wait to have that book in my hands too.

So that concludes what I bought on Chapters earlier this week.

Now for what I got at Indigo. First, the last book of the City of Brass trilogy, The Empire of Gold. It’s so beautiful. I really need to stop buying books because of how beautiful they are.

I have to hurry the heck up and read this series. I have to finish Gallant and then The Book of Night by Holly Black and then read this series (unless I get distracted by something else).

I’ve been curious about this book for a while. Also the other Hades and Persephone series that she has, but for whatever reason when I pick it up to read it there’s something that just goes :/ so I end up not buying it. But I’ll read this one first. It sounds good. If I remember to post that I read it I will say how I liked it 🫠

This book also has been making me curious for a super long time. Even more after I read Daughter of the Moon Goddess (which is one of my favorite reads this year). I like books written by Asian authors (either from Asian descent or born and raised in an Asian country). More when they talk about the life their people have had, mostly in the past for whatever reason (when I say this is mostly because of the type of book I’ve read before). I realized when I read this book called Snow Flower and the secret fan by Lisa See (this book is really good but please read lightly, it’s about this girls that are paired to be friends for life as they are both prepared to enter arranged marriages, one with a well respected boy and the other with a butcher, but the book does talk about the foot binding thing they used to practice in China and that was hard for me to read), and after that I started buying more of her books, that i have of course not read because I keep buying more and more books. Anyways, She Who Became the Sun gives me Mulan vibes but on a different degree. In like a Game of thrones degree (of killing not the rest, but it’s just a feeling though). When I read the summary I could piece together a little kind of story it will unfold and I’ve had a question regarding the conclusion but I never found someone that had read it before so I decided to buy it and read it.

Last but not least, omnibus 2 of The seven deadly sins.

Which funny enough, it’s the book I actually went to look for in Chapters and at Indigo. And then I ended up buying 6 more books. T______T

P.S: this was my background while taking the pics for the books I got at Chapters

It’s an anime called Wotakoi: love is hard for otakus. It’s really good I 100% recommend it. The characters are in their mid 20’s, they work in an office, and they are all otakus. Blue one is a gamer Otaku, who also reads manga, collects figures and watches anime. Pink reads manga, watches anime (and BL, also reads it) and plays games but also writes doujinshi. Orange plays games, watches anime and reads manga, but he also really likes shojo manga which I love. And lastly green, reads manga (BL) and watched anime, but her specialty is cosplaying male characters. It’s a fun anime to watch but also read, it’s mostly marketed for women not teens but anyone can read it.

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A-Yellow!

Well that’s nice, a new post a day after I posted one (I believe it is the day after I could be wrong).

This is the book I am reading right now:

I like V. E. Schwab. I need to say though, I haven’t read a lot of her other books (yet), I have read The Invisible life of Addie LaRue. I love this book, it made me cry so much (to be fair, I am a big crybaby). To me, the premise of the story was something that I hadn’t read before, which made me love the story more.

This book though, it gives me some Coraline vibes. As it goes the story is about Olivia Prior, an orphan. Olivia is quite particular, she can see ghouls, and for whatever reason, she can’t speak. She can communicate though, through sign language or by writing. She carries her mother’s journal reading about this peculiar place called Gallant, and how her mom warns her never to come to this place. Her life in the orphanage is…bad. It could be worse but it’s still pretty bad. And then one day she received a letter from her uncle inviting her to come to Gallant. And she goes, with this the mysteries just keep pilling up.

All in all, it’s a really good book. I am in page 253 (though I don’t remember when I started it).

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Been neglecting this blog a lil.

I have been reading (a lot manga) some books in my MIA time. I will leave it for another post.

What I am currently reading:

Please ignore the pic in the background. It’s my work computer.

I am rereading this book, I read it for the first time many years ago and absolutely loved it. Been looking for it nonstop. Finally found it some weeks ago. Which, funny story, I thought I had lost this book, I cleaned out my room and found that i didn’t know where it was. I looked everywhere, in my apartment, at my other job, lost and found at the mall, lost and found for the public transit. So I reordered it. And then literally two days before the shipment came in I found my og book underneath a piece of my sofa (my sofa can be decided into 5 pieces).

Aaand:

I hope this post doesn’t get flagged.

So that is what I’m reading right now. I will post about the other three books I have picked up and finished. And put some of the books high in my queue.

Something extra:

Funny, when I took the picture of the Noragami manga, on my other computer screen I saw:

This is from the anime.

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I loved this book. I feel in love completely with the cover and then it was the story that kept me going.

It is absolutely enchanting and the characters, I believe they are endearing. At least to me. I was able to relate to the main character. Where she was completely separated from the family she knew and the home she grew up in. Although the circumstances were different that’s sort of how I felt when I moved I don’t know how many miles or Km from my home to study.

Still really freaking good

Start date: February 1 2022

End date: February 28 2022

Rating: 10/10

Spice: 2(?)/10

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I loved this book. It is a mature book so 18++ but still worth reading. It is also the sequel to neon gods which I absolutely loved. I will post the cover page later.

This book is the story of Eros and Psyche. Fake dating taken into another level, to the fake marriage trope. Really hot scenes too.

Start date: January 15 2022

End date: January 30 2022

Rating: 10/10 (completely recommend)

Spice: 20/10

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This is the first book I finished reading this year, it is The Bromance Book Club by Alyssa Kay Adams.

It was a really good, fun read. It gets a 9.5/10 rating for how good it was, spicy-ness gets an 8.5/10. It was spicy but not too spicy.

The story is about Gavin Scott and his wife, Thea Scott. He is a professional baseball player for the Nashville Legends, they got married when she was pregnant and were so much in love. But when he becomes a professional player he leads her into this whole wife of a player life and she lost herself in that and raising their two daughters.

Then one night he finds out that his wife has been faking it in bed the entirety of their marriage. That leads him to start acting like a baby because his ego got hurt. That leads to her asking him for a divorce and him moving out. When some of his friends find out they go to him and tell him they can help him get her back. They invite him into their romance book club that they use in order to understand women and better their relationships with wives, girlfriends and/or fiancées. And so he comes back and tries to fix his relationship with a romance book called Courting the Countess.

Let me tell you, this book is so good and so funny. It is romantic, but very funny still. For one, it takes Gavin a bit of time to find out why Thea actually asked for a divorce because he wholeheartedly believed it was their issues in the bed. It made me wonder about some men out there, the kind that grow up, go to school, go to work and are still unbelievably stupid. In reality I would say it could’ve been one problem, as he works so much, goes to different trips and she stays with the kids. She started to forget herself, she wanted to go to art school but she had to let go of that dream. She started pretending too much and building this persona whenever she was with the wives and fiancées of the other players. I can see that she did it for her own sake but always trying to think about their daughters. I have some experience with that. Some couples stay together for the kids but in reality more often than not it ends up hurting them a lot. Kids are not like some people think. They can be very perceptive to what is going on around them.

But I also understand why she would end it. I’ve had to make that same decision before. I had to end something for my own sake. Albeit, I do not have kids and I don’t know if I would do the same thing, but I do understand her struggle. If anything she was super strong and he does learn from his mistakes. He works real hard for his relationship. He supports her decision to going to art school and even takes her on a date to an art supply store and lets her choose anything she likes. I have to admit that it was a very sweet scene. In the end, she didn’t end it because she didn’t love him anymore.

In all honesty I was attracted to this book because I though it was a gay book. I’ve been reading more of those lately, because I can read whatever the hell I want. But I was not disappointed, it was a good read, I mean, a group of cis men that read romance books in order to understand the language of women and to use what they learned to better their relationships with their significant others? Freaking genius. They even analyze the time period a book is written on to better understand the struggles that women go through everyday.

It is a very cute, funny, sort of spicy book that is really worth reading. It makes you want to scream out of frustration, laugh out loud and I can’t remember if I cried (I may have because I am a freaking crybaby). 10/10 I recommend it.