Ok listen, I got into this series in the worst of times for me. I became obsessed with it to be quite honest and read the whole 3 books (there are 2 more out now about one of the side characters) in the span of a week on my phone. The characters are all traumatized messes and the dynamics between them are frankly a little insane. But it feels so good. The whole thing is about nonlinear healing and how different types of trauma create different responses and need different things. Not so explicitly but it's there the whole time. It's found family sort of. The list of trigger warnings on this thing is crazy so if you need to look that up definitely do. It's a weird mafia sports book? There's romance? It's really hard to put into words. You'll either love it or think I'm insane for loving it. But this is my all time favorite series. The one that's so so close to my heart that I don't even mention it because it feels that personal. I'm only sharing this now because I know it's what I would've needed if I was you. If you don't like it or don't read it that's totally ok. But for the love of everything do NOT come into my comments hating on it because this is the one thing I don't want any constructive criticism on. It's my baby.
admittedly this series makes absolutely no sense at times but it has completely taken over my brain. i just finished the last book and i need to talk to someone about it fr
can i be honest? i read this when i was a kid and iām still thinking about it. i know that it would be cool for me to mention a more complex book or whatever but i just cannot shake my love for the story .. it was the first book that really wowed me so i just hold it near and dear to my heart
so i canāt tell you exactly what kicked that off for me. i will say, what exacerbated it was seeing a girl in my second grade gifted and talented class reading harry potter and the goblet of fire and i was jealous bc the book was thick as hell and we were only 7!! so i started the series out of spite so i could get to the fifth book before she did. because i read so many books as a child, i would say theyāre All formative to me in some way. but when i saw this ask, the first book i thought of was āthe miraculous journey of edward tulaneāā¦ this may sound sad but it was the first book i remember ever making me cry. i didnāt know you could be connected to a book like that until then, so i think of it warmly and fondly. itās like wow there really are new worlds and beating hearts between pagesā¦ (i also remember reading another book that made me cry when i was slightly older. it was about a girl without a shadow who had some sort of cat familiar that followed her around. i remember fighting tears so hard but also canāt remember the title for the life of me.) (a series of unfortunate events had me hooked too. i think i was into some pretty somber stuff loool).
It's so lawless. Youāll see the weirdest things and no one will care. People are so unabashedly human here. Dead expressions, exhaustion, boredom. Youāll get a coffee, someone else will get a bloody mary, the time is irrelevant. Your priorities will be tested, everything costs at least three times as much as it should, it wonāt matter. I love liminal spaces.
