⭐ Star Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
💔 Heart Crushing Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟+

Apparently I learned absolutely nothing.

After finishing The Bridge Kingdom, I looked at The Traitor Queen and thought:

“Sure, Lilly. Go ahead. Continue. What could possibly go wrong?”

Apparently… absolutely everything.

Please. Sit down. Communicate. Save my feelings.

I am begging.

There were so many moments where I forgot I was sitting in my own house because I felt so pulled into what was happening. I wasn’t listening to an audiobook anymore — I was just there, living inside all of the tension, stress, panic and emotional damage.

Which honestly feels a bit rude.

I kept thinking:

“Okay, we’re fine.”

Five minutes later:

“Oh no. We are definitely not fine.”

The emotional whiplash in this book deserves its own warning label.

And the worst part?

I willingly kept listening.

I couldn’t stop.

The world keeps pulling you in, the tension never really lets up, and I needed to know what was going to happen next even though I had a feeling this book was preparing to emotionally attack me.

Would I like my feelings back?

Also absolutely.

There were moments where I wanted to shake people, moments where I wanted to scream at people, and moments where I just sat there staring into space questioning every life choice that brought me here.

But that’s kind of the sign of a good book, isn’t it?

When you’re sitting there getting irrationally emotionally invested in fictional people.

Apparently getting emotionally attacked by a book is what it takes.

Tell me in the comments: what book completely destroyed your feelings and then expected you to carry on with your day like nothing happened?

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