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Hello, on this very day, 21.12.19, i have finally finished Crooked Kingdom and wow. I have not expected me to shed tears thrice and hyperventilate to the point of having a small headache. This series is truly something, i will be waiting for the netflix series while i read the Grisha trilogy. Just.. Thank you for this blog and i wish you the best. I promised myself to finish the book in this decade, and fullfiled my promise. Lastly, no mourners, no funerals.

IVE BEEN WAITING A YEAR TO POST THIS. HAPPY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY ANON.

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Does anyone else use joke phrases when you tell people you feel like shit, because you know you shouldn’t keep everything bottled up but you don’t want people to actually be worried because then they might intervene?

Anyway, really feeling like I want to buy a ticket to Juice Wrld concert rn 🤠

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“I can’t even tell you two apart half the time, because I don’t go by height or age, I go by amount of pain in my ass. Which makes you two identical.”

Kaz, to Pekka and Van Eck, Matthias and Nina, Wylan and Kuwei, Inej and Jesper (though he doesn’t mean the last one.)

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Anyways,, follow my tiktok

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Review (No Spoilers)

Having just finished this book a few minutes ago, this review will probably be a barely coherent mess, but let me try to convey my feelings as best I can.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue follows the winding tale of Addie LaRue a girl made immortal through a Faustian deal, but is also cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Three hundred years later, she finds someone who can remember her.

Style.

The most remarkable trait of this book is the style, a style I will call neither good nor bad, but characteristically Schwab’s. This book’s writing is what happens when Schwab is no longer tethered, freed, if you have read her other works, her Villains or Shades of Magic series, you will be intimately familiar with it. Rife with wistful metaphors and long, winding monologues like circling hallways. You will notice however, they’re usually cut short in her past works, you might not have noticed it then, but you’ll notice it after reading this book. Because they never stop in this book, they stretch on and on, and as she returns to her favourite turns of phrase again and again until they’ve stuck so far in your head you wonder how she thought of so may metaphors for the colour green. That’s the thing about this book that still wins my heart, this is Schwab condensed. This is Schwab’s meandering, wistful, nostalgic style first and characters and plot second. This is a book of atmosphere.

I was thinking of splitting this book into a list of pros and cons, but there are no objective elements in this. It’s biggest pro for one reader, a reader who wants to escape to ancient French villages and fantastical New York art exhibitions and Chicago speakeasies will also be the biggest con for a different type of reader, a reader who needs a villain to best, a conflict around every corner, a suspense to hang in the air. And suspenses are hung, but then you’re whisked away to a new land as you watch your heroine journey throughout history.

My best recommendation for you is to go to a bookshop and read the first page. If you like it, read it, if you don’t, don’t. You won’t have met the characters, not really, and you won’t have grasped the world, but, it’s most pervasive element, it’s style, is bared for the world to see from it’s very first pages. I mean this with no malice behind it, but I don’t think this is a book that could “win someone over” halfway through, if you love the first page, you’ll love it through and through, if you think it’s a tad boring, well that might stick too. When I see criticism of Schwab’s style, sometimes I agree with it and sometimes I merely understand it. They say she procrastinates plot progression, circles around the story more than she tells it, words flowing out of pages like a waterfall with no drains. For a few of her books-namely Vengeful and A Gathering of Shadows- I did feel pinpricks of annoyance. I felt I’d been promised an action packed plot and was stuck with a several page monologue about abstract concepts of freedom and power and yes, it was beautifully written, but isn’t this in the middle of an action scene? For this book I felt no such annoyance, because this book doesn’t have that promise of fast paced scenes and villains to defeat, and when that wistful, meandering style is the entire book, you can go along for the ride without wondering when the heroes will make their way out of their newest predicaments.

There are some downsides to this, in my entirely subjective opinion. Obviously for people who simply don’t like this type of style, perhaps people who adore the tight framework and near perfect pacing of Vicious may find Addie not as well suited to them. Despite my fondness, a downside is the several times I found I had turned two pages at once and not noticed, either finding myself in the exact same scene or assuming it had ended a page earlier. There are very few pages you could skip over and realise you had missed it by it being mentioned in future prose, while in some of her other works, the status quo changes constantly. In Vicious I was hungry, there was an overwhelming need sowed by Schwab to hear Victor and Eli’s past. In Addie, reading is less like running for my life and more like a lovely ambling stroll down a garden path.

Characters.

This section will be much shorter, congratulations if you’ve made it this far.

What is there to say of Addie LaRue? If you’ve read the Shades of Magic I would say two words, Likable Lila. Lila Bard and I have a complicated relationship, I love reading of her, I love her wit, but if we met in real life I’d keep a wide berth. Many readers have even less favourable ideas, her actions are often played as recklessness, but cross the thin line of “stubborn” to “stupid.” Addie captures that stubborness, that wit, but I was never annoyed with her, never thought I couldn’t have been pushed to do what she had. The slight internalised misogyny inside of Lila has also vanished in Addie, which is a great relief. To someone who hasn’t read Shades of Magic? Addie is someone so desperate for freedom she’ll ask it from anyone, from people she knows she shouldn’t. Reckless, yes, but you grow a respect as you see all she endures.

Luc. Awful. Amazing. Beautiful. Hideous. A real and true dark grey and you’re still not sure if it’s really grey, you’ll never be sure. He’s pitch black at first and Addie splashes like a drop of white, but did it truly lighten him? Or was it a trick of the light? Flowery prose aside, do I want to fuck him or kill him? It changes from moment to moment.

Henry. One of the rawest characters, and despite the pages and pages of Addie, his moments, his glimpses, make me empathise with him most. Best description I can think of is just, heartwrenching.

Bea. Please date me.

Sam. Please date me.

Robbie. I know he isn’t Robbie Valentino from Gravity Falls, but... Isn’t he though? I was honestly too distracted as I read every line of his dialogue in TJ Miller’s voice. It was a problem.

Overview.

I know I may have sounded a tad harsh in this review, but I felt I needed to bring it to attention to warn readers who know themselves well enough to know this won’t be their cup of tea. But I truly would recommend this to any reader who feels they can enjoy stories without high stakes, stories with beautiful prose transporting you to awe inspiring locations, stories about the journey and not the destination. And isn’t that how a book about an immortal should be? Never about an unreachable destination, but an infinite journey?

#long af & i dont know how to add a read more button #but uhhhhh #yh go read addie larue #unless youre like REALLY REALLY plot driven uno

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Consuming media is OUT. Discerning the vague plot elements of any piece of media based off several fanfictions you found by searching specific tags on AO3 is IN.

#i am a DCU EXPERT #based SOLELY off ao3

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*at a meeting with the crows*

jesper: matthias, would you step outside for a moment?

matthias: why?

jesper: because you irritate me.

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Matthias: Wylan and I don’t download films illegally, because we’re upstanding, hardworking people.

Wylan: and we don’t know how

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This is AMAZING lmao, and he has to come up with increasingly outlandish lies about how he got his limp that isn’t, you know, a bank robbery. This would actually work out perfectly in that Kaz and Nina fic where they go undercover at a school as siblings, I gave up on writing that like a year ago though.

My reality is much less dramatic, but when I saw her I did message her on Zoom “didn’t I catfish you one time? Sorry abt that lmao” & she looked very surprised

You don’t know true fear until the girl you catfished when you were 16 shows up in your zoom class

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You don’t know true fear until the girl you catfished when you were 16 shows up in your zoom class

#what #and i cannot stress this enough #the fuck

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Parkour but you shout “self care!” Instead

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Wylan: I’ve never had a friend my own age, I never got to go to school.

Jesper: Well you have one now.

Wylan:

Wylan: I’ve-

Jesper:

Wylan: I’veneverhadaboyfriendeither

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You just have to play the hand you’re dealt with. Kaz? He’s an ace. Wylan is my king up my sleeve.  Nina is my old maid.  Inej is my queen. Van Eck is the instruction card you throw away. Kuwei is a solid seven. Matthias is probably, like, a two. And I’m obviously the joker.

- Jesper Fahey.

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Characters in the post-Korra avatar series I’m writing

Nianzu

- 15

- raised by con artists, always moving around because his parents are wanted for like 200 nonviolent offences each. Believes his parents have gone “straight” in Ba Sing Se and have steady jobs, but they‘ve actually created the first pyramid scheme in ATLA history.

- an earthbending prodigy. Very good seismic sense and a classic fighting style.

- competes in school earthbending tournaments for fun but just wants a peaceful life away from his parents and their zany illegal schemes.

- second element is air, he first displays this while fighting Yeshe. This is because of his neutral and indifferent nature, the principles of air bending, specifically detachment, aren’t his spiritual opposite.

Yeshe

- 15

- Orphaned at a young age and lived on the streets until she was adopted by two ex air nomad acolytes. (Acolytes were non benders tasked with keeping air nomad culture alive when Aang and his family were the only airbenders.)

- OBSESSED with air nomad culture, especially a huge Jinora fan girl. Probably knows more about air nomad history than an actual air nomad.

- an earthbending prodigy, and an amazing sand bender. She uses sand bending to employ air bending techniques, e.g. always circling opponents, relying on dodging and evading instead of blocking. She knows all 36 air bending levels by heart and has worked to find earthbending equivalents she can use.

- terrible seismic sense and can’t metal bend.

- Nianzu’s biggest rival in Ba Sing Se academy. He initially dislikes her style as he finds it disrespectful to the traditional earthbending techniques.

- competes in earthbending tournaments because she wants her unorthodox techniques to be recognised so that maybe one day she can visit an air nomad temple and meet airbenders.

- When Nianzu discovers he’s the avatar, he goes to Yeshe for air bending training.

Tizoc

- 16

- A sun warrior.

- a lot of raw power and his opponents don’t know how to react to his sun warrior techniques, flames burn a bright yellow. Cannot lightning bend.

- On his 16th birthday, when sun warriors are presented to the dragons Ran and Shaw (yes they’re still alive) he is taught by the dragons, then tasked to go find the avatar and teach them fire bending.

- is given a white lotus tile that Iroh gave the sun warriors centuries before

- has a zuko ponytail, and in the first few episodes runs around asking everyone where the avatar is. It’s a running joke that people think he’s a zuko cosplayer.

- some comic relief because he has no idea how technology works at first

The general plot line of this would basically be like a Spider-Man/Kim Possible avatar. The A-plot would be Nianzu fighting a villain of the week in his avatar costume and trying not to reveal his identity and the B-plot would be high school shenanigans. A few episodes in Tizoc would deduce the avatar must be attending Ba Sing Se academy and enrolls undercover to find them (with help from the white lotus). Yeshe quickly gets a crush on Tizoc, and Tizoc quickly suspects that she’s the avatar. Nianzu tried to subtly get Tizoc to teach him some firebending, and it’s a running gag that Nianzu always fire/water/air bends so that it looks EXACTLY like Yeshe did it whenever Tizoc sees. Even further in Nianzu would convince Yeshe to declare herself the avatar, so he faces less suspicion. Tizoc would then be tasked with teaching Yeshe firebending and there would be ~romantic tension~ and frustration because Yeshe obviously can’t firebend. There’d be an overarching villain but still pretty episodic and it wouldn’t be as dark as Korra.

I know this was long af but I couldn’t stop thinking about this.

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Matthias: Yeah, can I have a caramel Frappuccino with seven shots of espresso?

Nina: Matthias, please just try cocaine.

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She says the lollipop thing to Matthias but my point still stands, I remember Nina says smth flirty to Kaz tho

You know what I haven’t seen in any other book that I loved about soc?

The flirting between Nina and Kaz, but also the complete mutual distaste between them, and the understanding that romance is not even on the table. Kaz calling Nina “dear”, Nina batting her eyelashes and saying “you wouldn’t know a good time if it sidled up to you and stuck a lollipop in your mouth.”

The dialogue!! If this was in any other book people would ship it so much, even if both of them had their own romantic interests. But Leigh does such a good job communicating that yes they’re flirting but they also can’t stand each other! And not the, “oh they’re kind of snippy and pretend to not like each other but they’d actually sacrifice the world for each other” that Kanej has. No!! They hate each other! If it wasn’t for Inej they 100% would let each other die!! And I think that’s beautiful.

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You know what I haven’t seen in any other book that I loved about soc?

The flirting between Nina and Kaz, but also the complete mutual distaste between them, and the understanding that romance is not even on the table. Kaz calling Nina “dear”, Nina batting her eyelashes and saying “you wouldn’t know a good time if it sidled up to you and stuck a lollipop in your mouth.”

The dialogue!! If this was in any other book people would ship it so much, even if both of them had their own romantic interests. But Leigh does such a good job communicating that yes they’re flirting but they also can’t stand each other! And not the, “oh they’re kind of snippy and pretend to not like each other but they’d actually sacrifice the world for each other” that Kanej has. No!! They hate each other! If it wasn’t for Inej they 100% would let each other die!! And I think that’s beautiful.

#this may be controversial in that ppl might think kaz and nina actually kinda care abt each other but.... i said what i said