This is SUCH an Incredibly powerful memoir!!!!!!!!! Especially as a fellow nonbinary, discovering other people truly do go through these feelings, feelings I've had but thought were abnormal even though I'm around/talk to a Lot of nonbinary and trans folk, seeing these feelings laid out in color on the page is so heartening, I currently do Not have the words to describe it!!!!!!!!!!!
I started reading this because of the Dracula Daily emails, since it was free to sign up and hey, why not? But I Never expected to actually LOVE Dracula this much!!!!!!! I owe a lot of my affection for it to the emails, since they got sent to me in actual chronological order, and I know I wouldn't have liked it as much if I didn't read it in chronological order!!!!!!!!!! Either way, absolutely LOVED it!!!!!!!!!!!!
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HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was SO FUCKING GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll be honest here, I grew up on all of the Middle Earth movies, so I've been very hesitant to read the books for so long because I was afraid they would ruin the movies for me, but that's definitely not the case!!!!!!!!! This was so, SO GOOD!!!!!!!!! I LOVE Middle Earth SO MUCH!!!!!!!! And if anything, this only strengthened that love!!!!!!!!!! I loved Bilbo's character arc So So much!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait to dive into the next one!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was my first ever buddy read with https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/15335689-destiny-howling-libraries!!!!!!!! And WOW HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was SO INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!! I LOVED the descriptions of the rot and the changes Benji went through!!!!!!!!! And I fell so deeply in love with these characters, especially Benji and Nick!!!!!!!!!!! I just want them to be happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This now holds a very special place in my heart, and has even managed to make it onto my All Time Favs shelf!!!!!!!!! HIGHLY Recommend if you want a gory, diverse end-of-the-world kind of book, or if you just like horror in general!!!!!!!!!!!