FALL READING RECOMMENDATIONS

the only reason it didn't really work for me is that you do have an enemies to lovers trope and i just found i wasn't that captivated by the romance in the story and it's kind of a bigger part of the story but the magic is so fascinating

there are so many little snippets throughout the story of lore of stories about the previous phoenix writers if you're somebody who likes a lot of that kind of world building this book has so much of it

the creepy forest is genuinely creepy i will say this wasn't a book i completely loved there were so many threads that i think that if you like there being a lot of different things especially because it's the first book in a series you can kind of try to figure out where the story is going to go i think you're going to really like it the only reason i didn't totally love it is i think i wanted it focused in a little bit more

i feel very alone just being a person that's like i thought it was okay it is very eccentric it is very moody it is very grim and gritty and it knows it and it embraces it and it mocks itself for it's so over the top i think a little bit

this is the first book in a trilogy and adult fantasy trilogy and it has one of the most fascinating settings i've come across

the magic system has these little bells and it's very interesting because there's like different layers to transitioning out of our world and it's really interesting the different kinds of creatures that can come from these different places

i read it and i thought it was pretty entertaining and if you're looking for an entertaining story that is this one

next up is a book that while i personally didn't love this story is very well loved by a lot of other people and i'm always very open to recommending books that maybe i personally didn't like since books are so subjective and i thought the premise of this one was really interesting

i loved it but it is boring so it's hard for me to recommend sometimes because you really have to be in the mood to read really flowery beautiful poetic writing which is so normally not my thing but the themes in this story the complexities of the characters the nuance of the characters is so well done

when i was first picking up this book and reading it felt a little generic but things got really weird and not in there's no paranormal type stuff or anything just like creepy what the heck is going on type stuff and i genuinely didn't know what was going on but i was intrigued