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[beccaelizabeth]

I am trying to read "Graceling"
I thought it was a fighting book but it keeps on being a kissing book
of the 'oh no what are feelings and why do I have them' sort.

like there isn't actual kissing yet but everyone fancies her and she starts out saying she doesn't fancy people or want to get married or want children but now it's turning into her fancying a guy and you can just see where it's going.

if it could go and be politics that would be nice.
but as it is I keep reading a chapter and putting it down.
and then reading another because since when do I leave a book half read?


This may not be a book for me.





... and yet last night I stayed up all night reading variations on 'oh no turns out I fancy him and now we must do politics and also build stuff and decorate houses'

... I mean it was a lot more queer and also fanfic and also astolat, but there's still somewhat of a double standard in my head here.

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[radiantfracture]

This is both delightful and useful.

[gehayi]

like there isn't actual kissing yet but everyone fancies her and she starts out saying she doesn't fancy people or want to get married or want children but now it's turning into her fancying a guy and you can just see where it's going.

Spoilers: Kasha and Po do NOT get married or have children. And they don't live happily ever after, either (as is proven by the book Bitterblue, where they're secondary characters).

[beccaelizabeth]

well that's a relief.
but last night I got as far as them deciding to have sex anyway, and I remain disatisfied with the balance of elements.
I mean the back of the book could have described it better, really.