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aroaessidhe · 3 months ago

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2024 reads / storygraph

Kill Your Darlings

a depressed author struggling to finish the last book in her bestselling fantasy series lucid dreams into the protagonist in the midst of the narrative and can't get out

she uses her omniscient knowledge to help them win the war and survive, despite not having any of her protagonist's magic powers - but when she starts to change things she can’t predict, and starts to forget her life before, things get more and more chaotic

explores mental health & suicidal ideation

ace MC

#Kill Your Darlings #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #this is fine. a bit not for me. You can clearly tell as per the author’s note that it’s a very personal book to her though.#The world/narrative of the book is very generic tropey romantasy and like that’s intentional #but also it does essentially become the plot for a lot of the book and I’m not super interested in that.#It does come back to the concept eventually but I just was never super invested #I did have some criticisms about how she was saying her book is YA when it’s clearly NA/A - the characters are mid 20s!#and she kept calling it silly YA fluff and dismissive things…….but maybe that’s an intentional choice bc of [plot twist]? idk….#the sheer amount of times she called her characters her darlings got a bit grating to me #some decent exploration of ace identity I guess.#tho it's in an alloace kind of way and didn't personally resonate with me much #I kinda feel like something more interesting and subersive could have been done with her relationship with the kinda-love-interest #('kinda' in that he's dating the character whose body she's in and there's attraction there but it doesn't quite go anywhere and also #i mean. is he even real in the end)#also pretty graphic su*cide attempt scene as a warning #asexual books

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