Comfybere

OMFG, what in the cliffhanger

This was great! I read it less then a day. Now I have Daya's The Difference on repeat,

I super binge read this well written rollercoaster ✨

Such impressive world building!!! All of the characters were complex and real and none of them were human. I loved it!!

So good! So good! So good! I loved the writing style. Adding this author to my follow list.

I was given this book as a gift from my 4th grade teacher. It became my favorite book for the next few years. Sad but good.

I love character driven plots so much. Falling in love with the characters is always my favorite part of reading. Also love the enemies to lovers thing, road trips, and finding yourself.

I cried a little during the scene about internalized biphobia.

Great!!

This one had such a warm and happy ending. I feel like I'm surrounded by friends and happiness.

A lot of boners..and vampires..and some pretty cool magic.

Tooth achingly sweet and adorable! My cavities now have cavities haha

I really enjoyed the main character's dialogue in this book! Inner and outer dialogue. It was super fun

It felt intense.

The end felt pretty sudden but it wrapped up nicely.

Ending felt a bit rushed and weird but overall a good read. Good dialogue again. I felt like there were a lot less active characters in this one.

Suffocated

This 100% has spoilers. Also I read with my feelings and I'm not writing this as a review. I'm just writing it for myself so I can come back and read it again years later. It is all just personal feelings. I will be rambling.

So I relate to the two main characters so much in so many ways.

My dad had a lot of Cancer too. He had it three times and got through all three times and then just randomly died in his sleep in his fifties. The doctors never figured out why he died. I have this constant fear that it's genetic and I'm sick and I'm dying of cancers and some unknown thing just sitting there in my dna waiting to off me suddenly. Also my grandma got breast cancer twice, my younger sister had thyroid cancer and my dog had liver cancer. My anxiety about cancer and health problems in general is very bad.

Also I'm non-binary and I grew up sort of the way Jamie did. My parents let me do whatever. It was no big deal. I ran all over the place with the neighborhood boys and we even had sleepovers and stuff. It was all just normal for me and it wasn't until I was much older that I realized the way I experience gender isn't the same as others. I hate that my chest got so big. I have had dreams for over a decade that I would get breast cancer like my grandma did so that I would have an excuse to get rid of them. I've had these dreams before I even realized that there were other options then just my gender assigned at birth. Now I identify as non-binary but I'm not different then I was before. I feel like exactly the same person, but the people around me don't see me as the same now. Which is kinda weird. It's like they must feel somewhat like how Dylan feIt when He found out Jamie was trans.

I just have a different label on the same bottle. Now I don't feel like I need an excuse for anything I do that isn't femininish. I just do what feels right. I'll probably get top surgery someday but for now I'm terrified of surgery in general and especially blood clots. I like to look at before and after pictures and dream though.

Anyways I'm not even talking about the book now, but like I said I read with my feelings. I read myself along with the story and come out understanding myself a little better every time.

These teenagers were very well written. They felt like whole people.

Edit 9/30/22:
I have officially started my journey toward top surgery. I'm planning for 2026, before I turn 40. Going to take the next three years to get my body and mind ready as well as the insurance and necessary diagnosis for gender dysphoria.

I cried off and on for the entire book. People are messy. He was just running away from himself without succeeding. Which I get. Living too much in your own thoughts. Gotta pick something light next. Wish there had been an epilogue though.

Short and rainy. Common old ephemera collecting and restoration sounds like fun. Like some random person's old calendar from like 2008 with all their little notes like appointments and birthdays and trips. How do you go about finding stuff like that?

I think it's going to take me a bit to fully process this story. It's exactly what I wanted out of a political space drama. Everything feels like it's barely balanced on a tightrope.

This one's going to take me a long time to fully process, but by the end of the book I felt really hopeful. Jess's life is so different from mine but also familiar too. I've made decisions this year that will lead me into a new phase of my life and I'm excited about it. This book has made me feel more confident in my choices. I don't know very many other people in real life that are trans like me but the ones I do know give me courage as well.

I always liked this one because the lion had the same name as me :-)

The Rithmatist started of light and fluffy but was so very exciting by the end. That twist! I was screaming!!
I just finished it so I'm pretty hyped 🤪
Too bad it seems like 6-7 year between books for this series...
I do like all of Brandon Sanderson's work though so I'm excited no matter what comes out next.

so good!!! I love this author!