( ☆ = i cried)

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read:

• the hunger games - 7/10 (really love the concept, a classic. love my boy peeta)
• mockingjay - 7/10 (lowk katniss was pissing me off this book. her writing is also super fast paced, would love to sit with the characters a bit more. still fun twist to the og concept)
• catching fire ☆ - 7.5/10 (regretted every bad thing i thought about katniss this book. she’s just a traumatized girl, ending made me bawl for like 45 minutes. still super fast paced for my liking)
• the knight and the moth - (6.5/10) very fun worldbuilding, i looveee bartholomew, the romance was not as slow burn as id like. a lot of info dumping tbh but the lore is cool that it didnt bother me too much. the romance just threw me off because rory and sybil have like no reason to fall in love. also the random eff bombs felt so strange.
• the knave and the moon ☆ - (6/10) boy the ending got me crying but i think it’d just cuz im sentimental about bartholomew. but anyway very fun story, romance was okay i suppose but the plot was really fun! there’s tbh a lot of plot holes or oversights but i just shut my brain off and had fun with it. it was quite slow/less interesting than the first one tho.
• one dark window - (7/10) this one was very fun, i liked it a lot more than her the moth and the knight series, the world was fun and gothic, the card decks for magic was very cool. i thought she did a good job creating an interesting world. same struggle i had with her other novel, i just didn’t care about many of the characters particularly, and didn’t feel much stake in the romance. i also struggled with her lack of description for many things in the prose.
• the washwoman at the rivers end - (8/10) wow. i have so many thoughts. this was SUCH a strongly written story with a great, interesting plot, and genuinely great character writing and romance. i was captivated the whole way through. until we got to the last 15% and it turned into surprise mmc is actually a god and it felt like everything the story had built up to be was sort of just overturned for some sort of whimsical fantasy. not that i hate the chosen one trope but it just didn’t feel like that’s what this story was supposed to be. i’m left feeling sort of unfulfilled, even though i know another book is coming. but im still raging it highly because i genuinely enjoyed my time with it until that last little bit where i found myself laughing and eye rolling at the reveals.

to read:

• boys of tommen
• empire of the vampires
• rest of hunger games series
• one dark window book 2