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A (Not So) Quick Review of Court of Mist and Fury

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Spoiler for the A Court of Mist and Fury.

Wow, it’s been a minute!

That the trouble with data entry positions as a writer. The last thing you want to do after hours of typing is go home and do it all over again. On top of that I’ve just been generally burnt out from have to wakeup at 5am to get to work despite naturally being a night owl.

The Best Book In The Series

The one good thing about the job is that I can listen to audiobooks for 8 hours straight. That means biggest barrier for getting through each 20+ hour ACOTAR novels is the Libby waitlist. But after about 5 months, I’ve gotten through the series to date…And I have thoughts.

For the most part, this post will be about A Court of Mist and Fury. I already made a separate post discussing the first book, A Court of Thornes and Rose, here.

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A Quick Review of Just Like Home

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Wow! It’s been forever since I did one of these. Sorry about that.

I’ve been super busy and haven’t had much free time to read. But then, I found out the Libby app has audiobooks!

Just Like Home is the second Sarah Gailey book I’m reviewing for this series. The first was Upright Women Wanted, which you can find here.

The way that Gailey handles narratives was just so intriguing to me. They would be so flippant yet confident about their world-building that I decided to find another Gailey book. I needed to see if they would be my new favorite author or if this was just a fluke.

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A Quick Review of Bee and Puppycat

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So because my life is chaos, I am again without my beloved laptop, and this will be my first attempt to write and edit a post using only the WordPress app. Let’s hope this goes well!🤞🏾 (I guarantee there will be grammar and spelling, but I’ll come back to edit things after my laptop gets back.)

Also, obviously, there will be some spoilers for the show.

I first found Bee and Puppycat on Frederator’s YouTube channel around 2015 or 2016. I can’t remember if the series had come out yet or if it was just a pilot. All I knew was that it was cute and weird, and I wanted to see more of it. Eventually, Fredorator partnered with VRV, and I watched the new Bee and Puppycat episodes there. After that, the show went on hold for a couple of years for reasons I’m too lazy to research why.

Also, I keep hearing that the second season got leaked, so while some fans might have already seen these episodes, I only saw them when they were released on Netflix.

This isn’t technically a first-watch review of the series, but it has been so long since I watched the original that I can’t say I’ll be an expert on all things Bee and Puppycat.

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A Quick Review: Toy Story 4

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I forget to publish this post! (￣_￣|||) I literally had it in my drafts for a month and a half, but I guess we can just pretend it’s in response to the Lightyear trailer.

This was a movie that I was reluctant to watch. I thought that Toy Story 3 was the perfect send-off for the toys, so when Toy Story 4 was announced, it felt like a thoughtless cash grab.

Boredom convinced me to give it a chance, and I’m glad I did.

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A Quick Review of Upright Women Wanted

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You thought it would be part 2 of that Star Wars Rewrite, but it was me, A Quick Review!

But seriously, I feel bad for how I pretty much abandoned this series. I had a lot of free time for reading when I started this series, but I got a job as a frontline healthcare worker, so I lost all my downtime real quick. As a result, this will probably be the last A Quick Review for a minute. (At least until I get an Audible account or something.)

For now, let’s send this series off with a book that’s gay and it slaps.

Sorry, I’ve been on TikTok for too much.

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Re: Animal Crossing: Hollow Façades 358/2 ReMix

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(I already published a version of this, but I wrote it while I had writer’s block, so I wasn’t satisfied with it. I like this updated version of the post way better.)

During the pandemic, lots of people discovered Animal Crossing for the first time. As a long-time fan of the franchise, I loved the idea of playing the games.

I didn’t play New Horizons when it came out simply because I didn’t have a Nintendo Switch at the time. I was really on the fence about getting one, but the Animal Crossing Switch was cute enough to sway me. I was lucky enough to get one when they restocked, and the first game I bought was Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Unfortunately, it wouldn’t take long for me to lose interest in this game. So how did New Horizons fail to capture me like past iterations of Animal Crossing?

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The Reason Fate: The Winx Saga Struggles

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Spoilers for the early seasons of Winx Club and all of Fate (or just the first season if they get renewed).

To be honest, I did not want to watch this show. It was an edgy remake of a beloved 2000s childhood cartoon. I didn’t expect that it to be good, but a coworker convinced me to give it a try. I only listened because she gave me this piece of advice on how to approach the show.

Don’t look at it like a remake. Look at it like it’s loosely inspired by Winx Club.

A cool chick I work with!

This is great advice to approach any remake with, honestly. Nostalgia can be enlightening in some ways, but in others, it is a hindrance. Luckily, this wouldn’t be much of a problem for me with Fate.

I can barely remember the original Winx Club. I remember little things like Bloom being a long-lost princess, that the three villain witches went to a different school, and the fact that the boys went to a third school. I also remember the style and the flair of the original costumes and how diverse the original cast was.

…And that’s about it.

So, I went in with fresh eyes and an open mind.

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