Pouring One Out For Agent Browning Tonight. If I Had To Be Neil Jostens Assigned FBI Agent I Would Invent

currently reading Dark Heir and gosh I love James the tension is insane.. probably not prepared for the rest of this book

you might like the same character as me but i like them in a far more concerning and deeply controversial way than you ever will

fictional man obsession of the month:

Aemond Targaryen

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Perfect summary of why I adore this book

Does anyone else just sit and think about the fact that Six of Crows is literally the perfect book?

Like, we have a morally grey character who's actually morally grey and has a real reason to push people away other than "once I killed someone in self defense, so I'm a terrible person and we can't be together." And every other character has a super fleshed out backstory as well, including real world problems that don't usually get talked about in fantasy books.

There's just as heavy an emphasis on platonic love as romantic love, instead of "I can fix him", it's "he can fix himself", there's a gay couple that's actually happy and not suffering every five pages, and all of the gay characters have personality traits outside of the fact that they're gay.

And speaking of the romance, it's so not rushed or sexualized. No one even kisses in the first book, but it's still so obvious how much they love each other. Each couple has such a different dynamic, and the way their pasts mirror each other? Perfection. (I also firmly believe that Kanej is the best couple in all of YA prove me wrong)

And then the diversity??? 3/7 of the lead characters are POCs, 4/7 are queer, 3 have disabilities, 2 have addictions, 2 have PTSD, 2 are religious, one was raised in a cult, and it's not one of those books that has diverse characters just for the sake of being diverse!

The plot is so unique, especially among fantasy books, and despite the fact that there's so many moving parts, there is not a single plot hole. And the CK auction scene will forever be one of the best end of series climaxes I have ever read.

So basically I don't get why other authors even try anymore cause I'm sorry but no matter how great their books are, it's not going to be Six of Crows.

Dear Book Industry: please start including QR codes to the audio version in the physical copies of your books. I paid $$ for this, I want to be able to enjoy the story in every way.

Sincerely, me who is currently sick with too much of a headache to read, there's no free audiobook of Assassin's Apprentice to be found online, I'm not paying 15 bucks AGAIN to listen on audible after I already paid that much for the physical copy of this book.

Please make it easier for story-hungry people like me to get ahead in their books even if they're unable to physically read sometimes.

I'm desperate and have looked EVERYWHERE for a free Assassin's Apprentice audiobook.

" you should be at the club " I should be at cabeswater searching for glendower

let me be wanted

and if i am not wanted

let me be needed

and if i am not needed

let me be used

until there is nothing left of me.

Every day I start kinning this man more

Thinking about how badly Andrew must’ve wanted to be known. For someone to actually notice things about him and be curious and piece all these observations together. Like. The truth game was just as much about wanting to know things about Neil as him wanting Neil to know him. And even without the truth game being evoked, when he knows what answers Neil must be digging for, he gives in more often than not. I think about how when Neil started noticing Andrew’s odd memory, especially when Neil believed him not to be paying attention and when Neil started finally asking questions, and how quickly Andrew answered them, how he must’ve been thinking, finally.

How much he wanted to be known and by someone he knew by now he could trust. Someone he knew could understand him and the implications of things he’s told. Someone he could tell his own secrets and things he’s been keeping to himself. Everything he let other people assume or misunderstand about him. This little nobody runaway is paying attention, piecing it together, understanding in a way that no one has ever been willing to do, not even his own twin. And when Aaron and Nicky asks him when this happened or other variations of the questions Neil’s already solved himself, and Andrew tells them they should’ve figured them out himself.

The way Neil was the first person to take him at his word, especially about something that wasn’t violence. To look further into him and the things he says and does and actually try to understand him. Not just write him off as a violent psychopath who does things for his own pleasure. The way Andrew wanted him to see more of him and understand him. And I just. My mind is tangles. But I want to go on about this forever.

when i was in primary school, i'd play "library" with the books i had at home

now i'm a senior in high school helping out in the school library during my lunch periods

the destiny has been fulfilled and i'm having a blast