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In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
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it was ok
bookshelves: 1-fantasy, 3-lgbt, 3-mc-achillean, 5-young-adult, 1-urban-fantasy, 3-mc-bi-pan

rep: bi mc, gay li

GREAT FUN but also, why on earth is it this long?? at least 1/3 could've been cut & no actual plot would be missing

anyway it's actually really hard to take this book seriously when u realise that elliot is literally just [redacted] [redacted] & luke is [redacted] [redacted] (well, her interpretation of those characters, down to the idiosyncrasies we all rmbr from her earlier fandom stuff) and this whole thing is lowkey a ** ***'** * ***** **** au.....
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Reading Progress

September 8, 2017 – Shelved
September 8, 2017 – Shelved as: to-read
September 8, 2017 – Shelved as: 1-fantasy
September 8, 2017 – Shelved as: 3-lgbt
September 8, 2017 – Shelved as: 3-mc-achillean
September 8, 2017 – Shelved as: 5-young-adult
April 27, 2018 – Shelved as: 1-urban-fantasy
December 14, 2018 – Shelved as: 3-mc-bi-pan
June 9, 2019 – Started Reading
June 9, 2019 –
page 12
2.72% "real PRIDE mood is casually establishing ur mc as bi in the very first chapter, in which he is still just a 13yo boy"
June 9, 2019 –
page 35
7.94% "elliot is EXACTLY like [redacted] in [redacted]'s [redacted] and i hate it but also i love it"
June 9, 2019 –
page 142
32.2% "it's 3:46am and i have work in the morning but luke just broke adam's nose so like"
June 10, 2019 –
page 302
68.48% "who writes books this long"
June 10, 2019 – Finished Reading

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Joanka I must be living under a rock because I have NO IDEA what you refer to :D Please let me know :D


anna it's old fandom history but also i can't destroy it for u lmao


Joanka Oh. When it comes to ancient fandom histories, I was much more into manga and here I suspect it might be HP...? Anyway, I loved In Other Lands so :D


anna yes, ur very right about that lmao but anyway yeah! it's a good book!


Linda pls tell me what redacted is im dying to know


message 6: by Cindy (new)

Cindy LMFAO


message 7: by Sarah (new)

Sarah A-F I Have to know what's redacted 👀


˗ˏˋ eg ˎˊ˗ akjsndlkfbaljk


anna @sarah i'll message u, i don't wanna ruin anyone else's day if i don't have to lmao


message 10: by anna (new) - rated it 2 stars

anna y'all laugh but u know i'm right!!!!!!!


message 11: by roma (new) - rated it 5 stars

roma is this a drarry thing lmao


message 12: by anna (new) - rated it 2 stars

anna @koh i dont wanna answer this :<


Arvie i have to know what’s redacted lmao

and i also agree that it’s too long 😭 i’m halfway reading it and although i like it, i’m still having a hard time because some scenes are useless 😭


message 14: by anna (new) - rated it 2 stars

anna @Arvie i will message u, i refuse to say it out loud publicly


Anoushka wait what's redacted?


message 16: by lala (new) - rated it 1 star

lala can i please know what's redacted pls pls


message 17: by julie (new) - added it

julie what r u talking about 😭


Flora I know exactly what's behind those asterisks (which shows how old I am) and I agree haha! I don't mind though - I enjoyed those versions of those characters then and I'm enjoying them now. Good for her honestly


message 19: by anna (new) - rated it 2 stars

anna @Fiona finally!! someone who understands!!!! and honestly, yeah, i had fun with it too! i just got a bit of whiplash once i realised lmao


Alexa Omg what is redacted?? I wanna know so bad😂


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