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I resisted SJM for so long because the hype felt overwhelming, but this book earned every bit of it. The Beauty and the Beast bones are there but Maas makes it her own — Feyre's journey from survival mode to love to sacrifice is so well-paced. Under the Mountain was genuinely harrowing. Tamlin is... well, I have though…
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A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
Stayed up way past bedtime again for this
Listening to this on my commute was an experience — Westover's voice (through the narrator) is so measured when describing the most extreme circumstances. Growing up with survivalist parents who distrusted education, hospitals, the government — and then clawing her way to Cambridge. The scene where she sees the Holocau…
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The scene where she sees the Holocaust in a textbook for the first time. She was seventeen. The weight of everything she didn't know, couldn't know — listening to this on the MRT, I had to stop and just breathe.
You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them. You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.
Jewell plays with the podcast format brilliantly — the interspersed transcript excerpts and listener reactions create this meta layer of dramatic irony where you know more than the protagonist but still can't look away. Josie is one of the most unsettling characters I've ever encountered because she's so ordinary on th…
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