ITS GOOD I RLLY LIKED IT but fair warning that the FMC is very... hopemaxxing hopeless romantic shoujo which ik some people dont enjoy!! each book in the trilogy also takes a while to pick up but by the 3rd act im always gasping
2nd book is the best, then the 1st, last book is ok

RIGHT!!!! ITS SO PRETTY AND SUCH FAIRY TALE AESTHETIC I GOTTA. I GOTTA HAVE IT......

wrote in to kinokuniya to ask if they're going to stock / open preorders for it.... if not i'll send it to my sister for her to bring to meeeee

AND THE FULL STORY OF THE BALLAD OF THE ARCHER AND THE FOX....
and then theres the jackseva novella coming out . im gagged

THATS SUCH A CRAZY THING TO SAY why is the universe always intersecting your life path with the craziest out of pocket characters 😭

**kobo not kindle

bought myself a new kobo clara colour :pensive:

THIS IS SUCH A LETHAL COMBINATION OF SONGS

8. infinite baths... my comfort song recently!!!
im so tired i could sleep through a landslide but i have fought so long to be here i am never going back...
so many good lines in the song i think lyrically its my fav atm

can i call her mine- (IM KIDDING SHES GORGEOUS

also love how holly black just puts her girls through it

also man i rlly like the couples holly black write :(
charlie and vince and charlie and red..... also i see you holly. despite the red shadow daddy trope / touch her and die i see you. i know your girls top .
also in case anyone wants 2 read
its an adult debut so theres more mature themes

rp group adaptation i feel like
shadowless humans = dulled/missing emotions, soulless, powerless
untethered shadows = carries a certain emotion, but will wither if not tethered
smth smth smth

feeding the shadows blood to awaken it, or feeding it emotions and memories.. stealing other peoples shadows for yourself, altering your shadows to get high / excise certain memories and emotions

shadow manipulation but as an extension of your consciousness / also able to become its own consciousness... feeding shadows your emotions and cutting it off, shadowless humans missing a part of its soul, untethered shadows being blights and dangerous

tbf my calendar is wonky today and didnt show it??? so if its not in my calendar its not real

i love red stringing

ALSO bonus points for past self having zelda vibes . in the song that has the line you know it's not a game or a fantasy

is very cool. ngl i did feel like even in arcadia should be the opening song on the album so i really enjoy this theory

but also i dont think i would survive the sequence of damocles -> gethsemane -> infinite baths -> look to windward -> emergence

-reviving by the shore in into the windward)

vs

the cycle must end = starting with even in arcadia and ending with caramel giving the album a whole different feel; one that gives very... pre-boss battle vibes and ends with waking up