#also ty for the compliment! love ya 🤍

[roobylavender]

omg talk to me abt soc bcs i haven’t finished tck yet but everyone loves that series sm that i don’t hear much criticism on it ! (also if you’ve read the shadow and bone series too i’m dying to hear ur thoughts on it …. 😭) btw ur blog is so lovely ( as r U ) and it never fails to make my day idk if this is weird lol but ilysm 🫶

unfortunately i read the soc duology back when it was being published so it’s been a very long time lol. i think my primary gripe was the racial/ethnic classifications bardugo invested in bc they felt very caricaturized at times and then i’m sure upon reread i would have more issues with the matthias stuff bc he’s.. well. a snow nazi or whatever ksbdkdnkdj. but aside from that i don’t have much to say bc i remember too little. i do have reviews of the original grisha trilogy up on my goodreads (fauxvais) albeit those are also old so i have no idea whether i’d feel the same way now as i did then. i may honestly reread all of it next year bc i tend to do that a lot to see how my views of certain book series’ have changed. what i can say is i hated the nikolai duology. that was what i was most looking forward to bc of the nature of nikolai’s transformation and the potential monster romance aspect but it ended up being so lame.. i’m still living in the world where nikolai was a monster permanently and zoya loved him that way bc she was the only one who wanted to