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"We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. . .

Or to put it more finely. . .

. . .we did it to prove you had souls at all."

My Favorite Book Tropes

🐍 Enemies to Lovers - when done correctly, intense, slow burn, friendship being denied before falling in love AHHHH ("Things We Never Got Over" and "Punk 57" are two of my favs that I can think of, though I would live some with less smut)

🌼 Friends to Lovers - ONLY when the plot is unique (e.g "Never Let Me Go", If He Had Been With Me"; yes this tropee has to be painful to work.

🌹 Forbidden Romance - only if the book gives literary/historical/realistic and isn't all smut/fetishization ("The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" type shit)

✨ Honorable mention ✨

👁️ Dystopian Fiction with interesting but not too complex world-building (I have ADHD and ut gets too confusing to enjoy) I did love "The Hunger Games", The Grace Year", and "Never Let me Go"

🦋 Mental Illness/Substance Abuse tropes (especially when done realistically ("Girl Interrupted", "Girl in Pieces") Honestly, I just love Kathleen Glasgow's YA books on these themes

🫀 Books that make you feel every emotion possible or make you question your own humanity/judgement/morals or just make you think, no matter how fucked up the subject matter is ("My Dark Vanessa", "All the Ugly and Wonderful Things", "Less than Zero", "Bunny", "Adelaide")

THIS BOOK TOOK MY HEART, SHATTERED IT, PUT IT BACK TOGETHER, AND THEN BODY SLAMMED IT AT THE END.

10/10 WOULD READ AGAIN.

The book I’m reading: the next couple of week were full of soft and happy moments.

Me: …. Oh no….

(Five minutes later)

Me (sobbing): but h-he’ll come back right?….right? He isn’t dead right?