So Peaches & Honey and the Kayla Edward’s series are at the very top of my TBR list, but I really struggle without audio (I basically read & listen to the audio at the same time because otherwise my brain will just drift off lol) and they don’t have audiobooks yet (both authors have said they’re getting audiobooks, but i have zero idea of when). In terms of One dark window, when the moon hatched, and quicksilver, honestly I was just waiting to see if they were popular because of hype, or they’re actually good. One dark window is still getting thrown around well after the hype has died down, so it’s on my TBR. When the moon hatched seem to disappear after the hype, and quicksilver is still in the middle of the hype, so I wasn’t sure about them. But if you like them, I’ll give them a shot!
{Stolen by the wolves by Lyx Robinson}
So I made this using canva. It took way longer than it should have. The teirmaker thing kept crashing on me so that’s why I went this route.
And what other books did you enjoy?? I need some recs, because I have no idea what to read next. I keep reading those short fantasy rom-coms, like the stay a spell series. Those are fine, but I’m getting so sick of them and need something to obsess over!
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And I need the damn audiobook for Ice & Ivy. I’ve read like 1/4 of it, but it’s really hard for me to focus without audio. 😭😭😭😭
As the kid who’s dad absolutely did try to poison us against our mom, while my mom was constantly trying to be the bigger person, I can tell you that at age 33, my mom is my best friend and I haven’t spoken to my dad in over a year.
She is amazing! Shes really hard on herself and talks about how she should have protected my sister and I from our dad more, and how she should have been a better mom. I’m always honest with her and say “You were basically a teenager raising 2 kids on your own, dealing with an abusive ex who threatened to take us away from you every other day. For those circumstances, I would say you did a pretty damn amazing job.” And she is an amazing mom honestly. Were things a struggle for a bit? Yeah, but she’s basically my best friend now, so obviously she went right somewhere.
And i think there’s still a lot of trauma there for her, but otherwise, yes, she’s definitely living her best life!
She is! And from what she’s told me, it was really difficult, and the only reason she made it out successfully the first time was because of my grandparents. They let all 3 of us move in, and supported her while she took a career program at the community college. I think we moved out of their house when I was 4, and she was able to buy a home when I turned 8. Of course, that was when my dad stopped paying child support because “I’m not paying all that money so your mom can buy a house” (never mind the fact that he already owned a house and was literally in the process of building his dream home from scratch).
It is. I was actually talking to my mom about this today (I told her about this comment and all the responses calling out how awesome she was for getting out) and she mentioned that she still gets really bad anxiety today. That every time something is going well, she has this gut feeling that he’s going to come back and just take it all away.
I know that sounds like something she should have dealt with in therapy by now since it been 30 years, but 1. She has been going to therapy for years. And 2. It didn’t end with the divorce. She had to raise us with him, which meant years of him stalking her and spying on her, and every time he found her doing something even remotely wrong he would threaten to take her back to court for full custody. I learned early on that if I said anything even remotely negative about my mom to my dad, it would result in my mom being stressed out for weeks.
I’m not divorced, but I’ll put my moms answer:
He was 28 and got his 17 year old employee pregnant, married her and they had another kid before she was even 20. After she gave birth, he refused to help with the kids outside of playtime, refused to help with the house, refused to do anything that he considered “wifely duties”. He yelled at her for “getting fat” while she was pregnant. Used a lot of intimidation to get her to comply (I don’t know if he ever actually hit her, but believe me, the intimidation was scary enough. He also did it to my sister & I). Among many other things. Then the last straw was when my aunt (who’s husband was away dealing with his fathers death at the time, and wouldn’t be able to get back home for at least 24 hours) had to take her 6 month old son in for emergency surgery and my dad refused to let my mom go to the hospital with her because it was his brothers birthday and “it would look bad” if she left in the middle of it since they were fighting earlier.
He still maintains that the only thing he did wrong was call her fat. He says he now understands that a woman’s body goes through changes when she’s pregnant that she cannot control, but he still believes she should have been doing more to get back in shape afterwards (note: she was pregnant basically the entire time they were married. She divorced him when my sister turned 2 months old, about a month after my first birthday). He also regularly tells me that I was manipulated by my mom into thinking he was the worst parent ever (I’m 33 BTW), but my mom didn’t tell me about any of this until I was 17, and she only told me then because she wanted to warn me about older men and tell me what to look out for.
That’s probably a big part of it. But also, most of the books I don’t have listed on here are those super short (like 300 pages or less) romance books that you can easily read in an afternoon. They’re the ones I had the hardest time ranking because they just don’t really fit on the same scale as all my other books lol. I mean, how do I compare Lola and the Millionaires with Reign & Ruin? I loved them both, but one of them was clearly a guilty pleasure read.
Yay! What are your top favorites? I’m looking for recs lol.
Awesome! What are your top favorites? I’m looking for recs lol
Which ones do we disagree on? It is super interesting seeing how different everyone’s taste is
It depends on the book, but typically 1.2. I can also listen at work a lot.
I can see how someone who didn’t know about the prophecy and wants him to change his mind can interpret his words the way Alicent did. But it really is just hearing what you want to hear.
With that said, after hearing what Rhaenyra said to her in this episode she should know that she’s wrong. Unfortunately for her, she doesn’t have the power to do anything about it, and even if she did, admitting that she’s wrong is essentially a death sentence for her and her kids at this point. Even if Rhaenyra wouldn’t order their deaths, she might not be able to protect them from the people around her, and Alicent wouldn’t believe her anyway.
My guess is that Alicent will simply find some way to convince herself that she was still right all along. That seems to be her MO.
Ah. I would still read it. It’s one of those books that does grab your interest, even if it’s poorly written and kinda cheesy. The concept of it seemed unique when I read it, and there is quite a bit of lore within the world, but then when you get to the second book everything slowly starts falling apart and eventually you reach a point where you feel like the author is just dragging things out to sell more books.
But honestly, even people who love the series have the same complaints that I do, but they still keep reading it. So maybe you will like it?
Men who hate women made me feel angry and terrified for the future. This made me angry for sure, but it also significantly shifted my way of thinking, so I was too busy reanalyzing my life to wallow in that anger.
It was! Ugh. I was so annoyed with that one because it really did like.. pull me in and make me feel like I was living in the world she created, then she ruined it with a terrible MMC and the slowest plot ever. Seriously, Matthew straight up didn’t even seem to like Diana, and Harkness regularly took 2-3 pages just to describe the room they were sitting in & the food they ate down to the damn seasonings used on their appetizers. No subtext, no plot, no character development, just description.
My mid-year rankings
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