Okay, I caved and downloaded Romance Club😭😭 Does anyone have any good story recommendations? I'm still gonna be on Choices and post Choices content (and finish off the books on my reading list). I just feel like I need to stop relying on one storytelling app
Ugh, this is such a weird feeling! It reminds me of when I switched from Episode to Choices and I had to acclimate to the better quality of stories imao. I just wanna ✨expose myself✨ to more interactive apps and since Storyscape or wtvr doesn't exist anymore this is the closest I can get
Kali: Flame of Samsara (UP TO DATE)
Astrea's Broken Heart (UP TO DATE)
Heaven's Secret: Requiem (UP TO DATE)
Chasing You 2 (UP TO DATE)
W: Time Catcher (UP TO DATE)
Love, Sin, and Evil Vol. 1 (UP TO DATE)
The Desert Rose (UP TO DATE)
Garden of Eden (UP TO DATE)
Soulless (UP TO DATE)
7 Brothers (UP TO DATE)
Song of the Crimson Nile (CATCH UP NEXT DIAMOND RUSH)
Legend of the Willow (NEXT DIAMOND RUSH)
Heart of Trespia (NEXT DIAMOND RUSH)
Psi (NEXT DIAMOND RUSH)
Chasing You (STARTED...)
Sails in the Fog (STARTED...)
Dracula: A Love Story (STARTED...)
Rage of the Titans (STARTED...)
Hell and Highwater (STARTED...)
Shadows of Saintfour
COMPLETED
Kali: Call of Darkness: 9/10; love the MC, the characters, the story progression, the Dozen lore, replayability, etc. but gets a point off for its problematic depiction of Indian culture and Hinduism) tbh it deserves an extra point or two off because I despise the way Remy clearly wrote from a Eurocentric perspective, but this is also the first RC book I read after the slew of mid Choices books so I got attached unfortunately
Theodora: 9.6/10; I got the ending where I was only able to save my soul and it made me sad 😭 the story was well written but there were parts where I was just a lil bored. At least, that’s how I felt initially before I became obsessed with the book. It's objectively amazing etc. but I feel kinda robbed from screentime with the OG characters if that makes sense? Either way the writer did a great job writing them into the plot in later seasons and the MC is so amazing I love her <3 it’s not easy to write the progression of multiple relationships already but to have a different set of likable LIs every season is incredible!
Arcanum: 9.8/10; THIS BOOK WAS SO GOOD omg I love how the plot came full circle and the MC was interesting and well-written (her character design was also top tier). It's such a unique concept for a book I love it. I feel like S3 could have gone by a lil quicker (along with a couple of other nitpicky things) but that could just be because S2 was so full of action
Heaven's Secret: 9.9/10; I just started its sequel, but I was pleasantly surprised at how engaging this book was! I like the gradual progression from being a new student to slowly learning the truth behind your death and about the academy. The final battle scene was super cool, and I feel like everything had a logical explanation (ex. Shepha only having power over light). I also like the different pathways of being an Angel, Demon, or Harmony Bearer (which I was!) it was really fun and seems like a replayable book <3
Vying for Versailles: [review pending, check later]
Sins of London: [review pending, check later]
Heaven's Secret 2: [review pending, check later]
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Turtle quotes but make it my band director trying to help the different sections:
"No, that wasn't it..."
"Come on! You had it just right last time! It's just 2!"
"NOO OH MY GOD MY POOR $2000 BABY!"
"You are on thin ice for stealing that cookie."
(tags bcs funny hehe-)
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continuing from that ask earlier, I doodled what Silverstein looks like in Parabola :3c (text from said ask ⬇️)
He looks about the same as he usually presents himself, but the details depend on his mood with very little control from him. On his most confident and independent days, he'll look more alive than he does in the waking world; warm human skin instead of cold painted clay. At his worst, he won't look like clay but instead skip past that into looking like a mannequin, with stiff ball jointed limbs and porcelain skin. He's kinda uncomfortable and weirded out with how he looks in Parabola, no matter the day.
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Ok i love some of the characters in ACOTAR, but like, truthfully, are any characters aside from Feyre, Rhys, Nesta, and maybe Cassian like...anything? To me it just feels like almost all the ACOTAR characters are just so shallow and plastic and cardboard cutout-y. Hate to compare with ToG but I feel like when you compare the characters from ToG to the characters from ACOTAR, they're just so much easier to love. Even less important characters like Gavriel seem just so much less lifeless compared to characters like Azriel or Mor who we SHOULD understand so well.
And not to hate on SJM again (i do it enough to warrant a restraining order), but like...does she actually like ACOTAR? I'm always harping on about this but even the first book had some love behind it, you could tell! After Book 1, everybody seems so much shallower, everyone seems like bad imitations of what people are supposed to be like and it's just so odd. Like, where's the soul at, Sarah?? You can compare MINOR ToG characters to some MAIN acotar characters and the minor character could be more...idk...people-y? It's really hard to explain, but the ACOTAR characters just seem so bland and corporate and soulless and it irks me because we KNOW SJM can write characters that..yk..aren't so like,, a PR team trying to craft a celebrity's quirky relatable appeal and failing miserably....you know?
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