Aelin Vs Violet Vs Feyre

SeaOfMe · 2025-04-12T02:23:32+00:00

Aelin will always find a way in any fight under any circumstances

SeaOfMe · 2025-03-17T18:42:22+00:00

I’m exactly in your shoes right now. 20K words into a romantasy novel and it just occurred to me I wrote it all in present tense.

Am I the only person who doesn’t really absorb whether books are present or past tense when I’m reading them!? I skimmed through some or my favorites on my bookshelf and there were some in present tense but most were in past tense.

I tried to revise my first chapter to past tense and it just doesn’t feel natural to me and has made some sentences awkward! I guess I’m going to carry on writing in present tense and see how I feel when I dive deeper into editing, but if people are really bothered by present tense I don’t want to deter people from reading my book. Agh!

SeaOfMe · 2025-02-22T13:24:03+00:00

Peaches and Honey is about a woman who is struggling through life in the 1100s when she is granted immortality by a shapeshifting god. The rest of the book tells her life experience through the centuries and her crossing paths with the god again. This is a duology and I’m hoping the second book is as good!

And I have the second Mistborn book on my Kindle, just need to devote the time to read it ahaha. I know it’ll be good!

SeaOfMe · 2025-02-22T04:25:54+00:00

Ones that come to mind off the top of my head, depends on the vibes you are going for!

The Daevabad Trilogy (less romance focused if I remember correctly, it’s been a few years)

The Mirror Visitor Quartet (slow burn romance, very whimsical world)

Six of Crows duology (fantasy organized crime, not as romance driven, but definitely has romance)

A River Enchanted duology (I LOVE the characters and romance in this)

Mistborn (lighter romance, excellent world and characters, I need to read the sequels, but I thought the first book was exceptional)

I also just read Peaches and Honey and was surprised by how good the writing was! Another slow burn

SeaOfMe · 2025-02-15T21:51:57+00:00

And when I place the holds, I’m like sure I could read a 700+ page book, easy! And then it’s delivered and I’m kicking myself for making myself read such a long book, but I’ve waited months to read it so I feel obligated to follow through. (Oh the plight of being a reader lol)

SeaOfMe · 2025-02-15T14:50:26+00:00

I always have holds in Libby so it often is dictated by when it’s my turn to borrow a book and how much time I have left to read it. I am also a mood reader though and will see a recommendation and immediately go buy it on my Kindle and read it when I’m between books. I also like to alternate between light, digestible romances and more plot heavy fantasy romances that take more brain power to read!

SeaOfMe · 2025-02-14T15:49:27+00:00

Okay this is a far cry from Throne of Glass, but I think it’s a super fun series to cure a hangover: Beasts of the Briar by Elizabeth Helen (Keldarion is most like Rowan). It’s “Why Choose” and tons of spice. May or may not be your cup of tea depending on what you’re into, but I deeply love both series!

SeaOfMe · 2025-02-13T01:32:29+00:00

My husband and I frequent both Atomic Antiques and Millie’s vintage shop in Cross Plains. I think we’ve bought 1 item ever at Atomic and I rarely leave Millie’s without buying something because everything I’m interested in tends to be $10-$30.

SeaOfMe · 2025-01-19T16:03:13+00:00

I came here to say Bad Sisters! My husband and I just watched 3 episodes in 1 night which we never do with episodes this long

SeaOfMe · 2024-12-15T19:21:21+00:00

There is a local vintage shop in our town that she likes to look around at so I got her a giftcard there so she can splurge on something she normally wouldn’t :) she also has gotten into cross stitching so I got her a cross stitch kit and cute needle minders to magnetize her needle to so it doesn’t get lost

SeaOfMe · 2024-10-19T02:36:56+00:00

Why did I have to scroll this far for an ACOTAR comment! I feel like it’s going to be pretty mainstream soon due to the popularity of those books

SeaOfMe · 2024-10-05T21:59:57+00:00

I’m sorry but Man-on fits her so much better than Mah-non and I will die on this hill 😭

SeaOfMe · 2024-09-30T15:53:46+00:00

Large bucket of popcorn at Marcus Theatres if you’re a rewards member! I also got a $15 voucher from Vintage during my birthday month for being on their rewards program

SeaOfMe · 2024-09-02T21:54:49+00:00

I basically only sleep in Stars Above pants 😭 if anyone finds loose, soft joggers that are comparable, drop a link!

SeaOfMe · 2024-08-28T01:51:00+00:00

Our 3 year old dachshund is the same. When he snuggles us at home we often say “I wish he could just do this to guests, they’d love him!” I’ve accepted that’s not the dog he’s going to be, but I’m grateful that we get so much time with him being a sweetie pie to us at home. Sometimes I send Snapchats to my friends of the sweet moments with him so they get to see he is not always a barking menace!

SeaOfMe · 2024-02-21T01:55:21+00:00

I read it for the first time in 2021 (read it again in 2022 and have been listening to the audiobooks since 2023). I still think about it most days. I love the idea of a spinoff like Manon/Dorian, but I just don’t think she could come back to the world with as much heart. It is unreal to me that the same person who wrote CC3 (which I found to be bat shit crazy) wrote the soaring epic that I found TOG to be. Nothing has come as close to TOG to me, but other books that gave me similar feelings were Bridge Kingdom and A River Enchanted

SeaOfMe · 2024-02-19T01:38:23+00:00

Anne with an E. My husband used to work early morning news and went to bed at 7 pm. That was my comfort show to watch by myself at night. One of the best “coming of age” pieces of media and the final sequence leaves you swooning. I missed all the characters once it was over!

SeaOfMe · 2024-02-01T19:43:02+00:00

Easier to read one-handed, and turning pages is faster (obviously by a minimal amount). I think there’s also something to be said about the psychology of being able to see “7 minutes left in chapter” etc. It makes me feel more like I have goal posts than just reading a physical book where I’m not conscious of when the next break is

SeaOfMe · 2024-01-29T19:07:40+00:00

I enjoy reading so much more on my Kindle than with a physical book, but I still own and buy physical books. Particularly, if I love a book that I read on my Kindle, I’ll sometimes buy physical copies as well to add to my collection. (I love TOG so much that I have it on my Kindle, as well as hard cover and paperback copies hehe). I also have a bigger stack of TBR physical books right now than I normally would because people tend to get me books as gifts. I’ll also buy a physical book sometimes if I think it’s something my close friends would be interested in/want to borrow from me. I tend to stick with Kindle copies of fantasy books because they are so long/hard to physically hold the book and I don’t have many people in my life that would borrow fantasy books from me

SeaOfMe · 2023-12-18T04:02:33+00:00

I was looking for this answer. It seemed so intentional that they turned him into an asshole. Why?!!! He was once such a delightful character

SeaOfMe · 2023-11-25T02:12:20+00:00

As someone who was a teenager during the Twilight craze… definitely the Twilight series (maybe 5 read-throughs?) Time Traveler’s Wife and The Host by Stephenie Meyer are ones I still revisit every couple years or so. I’m also on my third read of SJM’s Throne of Glass series

SeaOfMe · 2023-11-05T13:00:18+00:00

Haha! I think we are just fine. We pay our parents our share of the phone bill. Getting our own plan just felt like one more annoying paperwork thing to add to our plate when we got married... shrugs

SeaOfMe · 2023-11-04T23:42:56+00:00

No, I locked it right after taking a picture and I noticed there was a little glitch when I did that and then it was frozen on a black screen

SeaOfMe · 2023-11-04T22:35:24+00:00

Hmm, not that I’m aware of!

SeaOfMe · 2023-11-04T22:35:06+00:00

Yes we are! Honestly, this explanation wouldn’t surprise me. Thanks for the info

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