#book trauma

[everasolace]

Derek Landy: “Don't get attached.”

Me: “Haha. Okay.”

Gets attatched.

Gets obliterated emotionally by 90% of the chapters.

[mangosandwich]

finished beartown series and i have never cried over a book the way i did for that last book oh MY GOD

[jamiesfootball]

Beautiful Damned You has got me on the ropes just from the idea of it

This one is further down on the priority list but very much alive in my head!

Some highlights I have mentioned before:

Jamie does not throw away The Beautiful and Damned

He reads it

He has strong feelings about it

He starts coming into practice with a nastier than usual bite towards Ted, who is rapidly losing ground and can't figure out why

Jamie accidentally keeps recreating that scene in The Office (US) where Michael is watching The Devil Wears Prada. Jamie keeps quoting parts of the book at Ted (or attempting to quote- look, he's paraphrasing, ok, but these are lethal strikes)

Ted takes a while to figure out what's going on because spoiler alert he has not actually read that book since like. Ninth grade.

So all of this is culminating and in the midst of it all the gala happens. Which, Ted in his Ted-wisdom is still optimistic. He thinks he can still work things out with Jamie. He also still needs Jamie and Roy to work things out with each other, so despite Beard's warning he goes ahead and seats them all at the same table.

That turns into the most epic of shit shows you could possibly imagine.

Because it is one thing for Ted to insinuate via literature that Jamie is like Anthony, the protagonist from TB&D, but to then insinuate that Keeley is anything like Gloria, someone shallow who only sees their value in their beauty and who looks down on other women? Or that Jamie would treat her like Anthony does?

Fuck you, Lasso.

And also, if you want to talk about shallow- he didn't even want to do this stupid gala in the first place. It's disgusting, and he's not gonna be putting out for any old ladies. He doesn't care if Ted kicks him off the starting line at this point - he's not doing it.

Keeley does not know what has gotten into Jamie, but she's officially concerned now. And poor Roy- he did not sign up for this. Ted was the one who stuck him at this table under the guise of making things work with Tartt. Now Tartt's stormed off, Keeley's flustered and upset and a little embarrassed, Ted's sitting there like looking someone's whacked him with a shovel.

It had to be Roy to go talk to him, didn't it? Couldn't be anyone else.

That didn't mean Roy isn't annoyed when it turns out all of this drama started because of a fucking book.

Roy ends up talking Jamie down by telling him he'll read the fucking book, because it's clear to him that part of what's got Jamie so riled up is that no one's really listening to his side of things or taking him seriously when he says that the gaffer just- doesn't fucking like him? And when Roy tries to pivot that actually Jamie is kind of a prick so it's probably not just the book, Jamie gets more upset, so yeah, Roy will read the book, and then Jamie can explain to him what's got him so twisted up about it.

So Roy reads the book.

Huh. Turns out he might be on Jamie's side of this after all.

[highfunctioningflailgirl]

Just finished this dark beauty - Empire Of The Damned by Jay Kristoff, and HOLY SHIT, what a ride!😱😭❤️‍🔥

It’s dark and epic and doesn’t shy away from big gestures, hefty cursing, explicit scenes, gore and romantic tragedy. And then there are the soft moments that open you up to all the hurt in the world. It’s also queer af and will scoop your heart out with a melon baller.

Book 2 in the Empire Of The Vampire series, it left me screaming and most likely bleeding internally, but also deeply, deeply in love.

I’ll be entirely useless for the rest of the day. Thank you so fucking much, Mr. Kristoff!

[acourtofdreamsandstarrynights]

Do you ever sit and stare at a book and think about how the book knows the horrors that are written in its pages because the authors hate us. Meanwhile we’re reading sweet scenes without any knowledge of the emotional turmoil we’re about to face in the turn of a few pages. That’s how I feel reading Zodiac academy.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

I hope Connor is the one getting slammed into a wall.

You will have to wait and see! It starts where So Broken left off so it's very much a direct continuation!

[winter-angst]

tmw when a character dies in an obscure novel no one has read and you can’t move past it nor can you find any fandom content about them

r.i.p Casper 😔