MixedI finally finished this and I did settle on a three and a half star rating for this. I was not obsessed. I was not throwing my book across the room so invested in these characters, which I hate saying.
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Oleander (2024)
Others: Mixed Caspien Deveraux was poison. It took me years to realise that he hadn’t been born like that. He’d been cultivated and nurtured by a careful hand and a bitter heart. When I first met him, he was a bud. One primed to bloom beautifully and deadly. One I should have torn out at the root. I loathed him. I loved him. And until him, I hadn’t known just how completely those two things could exist at once.
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