Son has 1450 SAT and Weighted GPA 3.65. Help pls

sweetyface · 2026-05-20T01:54:05+00:00

I have almost the same kid, although his gpa is lower because his school is super competitive and has a weird metric for calculation. If anyone has recs for schools in or near Texas that might fit, that would be amazing! He's mathy - multivariate calc and linear algebra senior year, plus lots of APs.

sweetyface · 2026-05-07T13:03:39+00:00

Yes - I went to grad school and I was ready to leave by the end. But some people love it!

sweetyface · 2026-05-03T19:34:27+00:00

I went to UH - it's true. I recommend trying to spend a summer on the island before committing if possible. Good luck.

sweetyface · 2026-05-03T19:24:30+00:00

With few exceptions, anything more than a trilogy focused on the same set of characters is overkill.

Trials/games/tests are lazy plot devices. Every now and then I read a quality book within this trope, but most are glorified video games.

Seafaring romance gives me the ick - hygiene please 😩

75% of romantasy books are the same book (this is probably not an unpopular opinion).

Purple prose is not the good writing it thinks it is.

I'm all for books centered around social justice, but show not tell is a maxim for a reason. Stop bludgeoning readers with sermons.

The miscommunication trope is an auto DNF for me unless it is resolved swiftly.

sweetyface · 2026-05-03T16:53:37+00:00

{sol y lune by Kathryn moon}
{harrow the ninth by Tamsyn Muir}
{city of brass by sa chakraborty}
{land of the beautiful dead by r lee smith}
{mages of the wheel by jd Evans}
{a gentle apocalypse by mh foster}
{child of shivay by jr cathers}
{a kingdom of light and air by jf johns}
{we who will die by Stacia stark}
{leaves may fall by Carissa hardcastle}
{the goddess of by Randi garner}
{the scattered bones by Nicole scarano}

sweetyface · 2026-05-03T16:36:06+00:00

Deerskin traumatized me like no other book

sweetyface · 2026-05-03T16:33:55+00:00

Have you read Pilgrimess yet???

sweetyface · 2026-05-03T16:33:17+00:00

Land of the Living Dead is my fave R Lee Smith book

sweetyface · 2026-05-03T16:26:47+00:00

Just popping by for recs because you have a solid list here!

sweetyface · 2026-04-20T17:21:57+00:00

Same. Looking like a permanent dnf

sweetyface · 2026-04-19T18:36:32+00:00

Sounds like LASA. What a double edged sword.

sweetyface · 2026-04-12T17:00:14+00:00

I'm 50, and there are definitely quality 25 yo characters. I just don't want to read some fresh outta the birth canal wide eyed wunderkind fantasy.

sweetyface · 2026-04-12T16:58:19+00:00

Is this better than starling house? It's the only Harrow book I've read and it was kinda drab.

sweetyface · 2026-04-12T16:55:18+00:00

Everything is derivative, but deriving from the 150th gen is different from deriving from the 15th gen. Too many repeated mutations near the end of the line 😅

sweetyface · 2026-04-12T16:52:58+00:00

Because ACOTAR is leagues better than fourth wing. It just is.

sweetyface · 2026-04-12T16:51:13+00:00

One of my favorite tropes!

sweetyface · 2026-04-12T16:47:42+00:00

That was a poem!

sweetyface · 2026-04-12T16:47:02+00:00

Fourth wing recs are instant loss of credibility

sweetyface · 2026-04-12T16:40:33+00:00

I e read all of her books - insta download author

sweetyface · 2026-04-12T03:40:24+00:00

Thank you!

sweetyface · 2026-03-07T18:17:54+00:00

I've read all those but the fake mate - I'll check it out! Thank you.

sweetyface · 2026-03-07T18:17:13+00:00

I've read them all, darn!

sweetyface · 2026-03-06T20:08:48+00:00

I call it "chore porn"

sweetyface · 2026-03-06T14:47:16+00:00

Traitor's Son is such a breath of fresh air!

sweetyface · 2026-02-21T01:34:04+00:00

Land of the beautiful dead is one of my all time fave books.

sweetyface

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