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I would've probably enjoyed my 4-day easter long weekend more if it wasn't bookended by migraines on Friday and Monday mornings. My body continues to only feel bad during non-work time which I guess is convenient for my employers (shit gets done!) but also kind of annoying for me because I don't end up actually getting any rest. Still, the time I did have was passed fairly well.
Finally finished A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske (of Be The Serpent fame) - I feel like the front-cover blurb ("Red White and Royal Blue meets Jonathan Norrel and Mr. Strange") may have over-promised and under-delivered for me. I haven't read the latter book in that comparison (yet, it's on my list), but I've read RWRB a couple of times now and I didn't really see much of it here? I'm assuming they mean the "enemies/rivals to lovers" aspect of RWRB, but that didn't really play out very much at all that I could see? It was more like "sudden coworkers to lovers", and it takes basically two weeks between them meeting and sleeping together - which is fine, but it doesn't really fit the formula they're trying to market this as?
I kind of struggled to finish this, to be honest -- at some point it just... fell apart for me. The magic system was kind of confusing, too (they keep describing it as "contracts" but then you cast it using... gestures from cat's cradle? Which, I don't know, just seemed pretty silly whenever I tried to picture it.)Maybe the sequel will be better, and I'm told it's f/f too which is a definite plus.
Aside from that, I've been playing Animal Crossing New Horizons again, mostly making vacation homes and vaguely fishing to see if I can finish my museum finally. Evidently before this recent comeback I hadn't logged in for just over a year (thanks, villagers) ... which kind of aligns with when I started my new job and everything got super busy and I didn't have the spoons to log in every day anymore.
Finally finished A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske (of Be The Serpent fame) - I feel like the front-cover blurb ("Red White and Royal Blue meets Jonathan Norrel and Mr. Strange") may have over-promised and under-delivered for me. I haven't read the latter book in that comparison (yet, it's on my list), but I've read RWRB a couple of times now and I didn't really see much of it here? I'm assuming they mean the "enemies/rivals to lovers" aspect of RWRB, but that didn't really play out very much at all that I could see? It was more like "sudden coworkers to lovers", and it takes basically two weeks between them meeting and sleeping together - which is fine, but it doesn't really fit the formula they're trying to market this as?
I kind of struggled to finish this, to be honest -- at some point it just... fell apart for me. The magic system was kind of confusing, too (they keep describing it as "contracts" but then you cast it using... gestures from cat's cradle? Which, I don't know, just seemed pretty silly whenever I tried to picture it.)Maybe the sequel will be better, and I'm told it's f/f too which is a definite plus.
Aside from that, I've been playing Animal Crossing New Horizons again, mostly making vacation homes and vaguely fishing to see if I can finish my museum finally. Evidently before this recent comeback I hadn't logged in for just over a year (thanks, villagers) ... which kind of aligns with when I started my new job and everything got super busy and I didn't have the spoons to log in every day anymore.