What up my little sloopies and sloopettes? 😘
It’s me, a person who can read and has eyes. A person who, like yourself, cannot stand recurring words and/or sentences. A person who has read soooooo many books that her head is about to explode from the overdone tropes in this damn genre. Or is it just me?
I am 5 chapters into Dire Bound and I had too many thoughts to keep to myself. I’ll write and then immediately reply to my thoughts. Enjoy. (I am on mobile so if I have any formatting issues, je m’excuse!)
- The story starts with your typical, “I am poor, taking care of mother and younger sister” trope but also “I’m so angsty because life isn’t fair that I need to get it out by fighting. Men bigger than me underestimate me so I easily kick their asses.”
Colour me surprised. She can kick ass you say? No fucking way!!! /s
- We have the OPPOSITE of a smol FMC. 🌳
Wow. How new and fresh and exciting! (If she mentions how tall or long her legs are one more time, I’m going to slap her). She the mentions that people tower over her and proceeds to say, “by an inch or two”. Do we not KNOW what a tower is? This is just the same as other books but in reverse. Who woulda thunk it?
She has a love interest that calls her a weird, totally not age appropriate term of endearment like little Barf or something. Jk, it’s actually >!Kitten!< >!🤮!<>! !<it’s just so…. Juvenile. He’s supposed to be in his mid-to-late twenties.
She vows to train the children who go missing because she’s a mighty fine fighter and then in a moment of brain fart, her sister goes missing/is abducted. (Don’t come at me. This is not a spoiler, it’s literally written on the back of the book.)
>!A child the day before was in a failed attempt at abduction because of her training, but her sister who KNOWS the moves and even helps goes missing/is abducted without her having heard anything? Yeah. Ok. Next!!<
- The worst one. My whole reason for making this post and ranting and raving like the cat lady from The Simpsons (iykyk).
Everything, from what she wears to her fucking curtains, are threadbare. Not thin, moth-eaten, light, falling apart at the seams, holey, tattered, shabby, worn-out…. THREADBARE.
Her blanket? Threadbare.
Her shoes? Threadbare.
Her jacket? Threadbare.
Her brain? Threadbare, probably. 🙂
Every other fucking word for something she owns. We get it, YOU’RE POOR. The author(s) couldn’t come up with something a little more imaginative?
Are we trying to be like high school students who open a thesaurus looking for another word for “old and worn out” and said to themselves, “yes, this is THE word. Everyone will know how poor she is when we say this word over and over.”
Fuck off. Rant over!
/uj I will be reading this in its entirety because it’s not bad. Other than fucking THREADBARE.