Sunrise on the Reaping

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That was... bleak. Definitely understand why Haymitch is broken as hell now. I know how the Hunger Games go, but it's infuriating that he didn't take one for the team and kill Snow when he was left alone with him. Screw the arena, cut the head off the snake.

It took me 7 months to get 35% through because the arena doesn't show up until 55% of the way in. I had to force myself to smash this out to finish.

I looked at the casting for the upcoming movie, and I might be even more excited for that now. Hopefully they get into the arena faster though.

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18 hours ago

Homeseeking

Added to listContemporarywith 244 books.

Homeseeking
The Favorites
Say You'll Remember Me
Rewind It Back
Beautiful Oblivion
Piranesi
Bared to You
Homeseeking

Added to listAsiawith 12 books.

Homeseeking
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
I Hope This Doesn't Find You
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
The Bride Test
The Poppy War
A Crane Among Wolves
Homeseeking

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DNF 3.5% but I'm not rating. It's just at complete odds with what I personally enjoy.

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18 hours ago

The Everlasting

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Warning bells started going off at 2%. At 5% those bells were booming. 8% and I'm functionally done. Especially after researching critiques of the issues I was clocking. I skipped through to get the gist and read various analyses. https://stewarthotston.com/2026/01/23/review-the-everlasting-i-feel-used-and-dirty

I think The Everlasting is too close to white guilt management in pretty prose form for me. A POC is placed into a fascist framework, written as a willing participant to further genocides, and then weakly made to navigate out of that using romance as a prop. A romance as a reward for suffering, but only once his dark eyes have lightened to amber and his dark hair is turned "a pure, unnatural white, like bleached bone".

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9 days ago

Hunger in His Blood

Added to listVampireswith 54 books.

Hunger in His Blood
Fool Moon
The Book of Azrael
Never Keep
Lover Avenged
Breaking Dawn
Lover Enshrined