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cringefest. can't believe it's finally over.
I'm never touching this genre again.
also, this book is exactly The Hating Game but with a spanish heroine (not saying she copied that book, I'm sure it's just the cliches of this genre).
so yeah, I hated it.

this is my favorite book in the series thus far.
Sirius' letter to harry in the end is so heartwarming. And Lupin.. ah I just love him so much. Can't believe I thought he'd turn out to be Voldemort's spy. 
Harry is reunited with his dad's best friends. It's so heartwarming.
His patronus is his dad's animagus form. Harry is the spitting image of his dad. 
My heart is full

If you're looking for an introduction to the climate crisis, this is an excellent one. I've always watched and loved Attenborough's documentaries, and this book is no different (there's a feature film with the same name "A Life On Our Planet", if you'd prefer that). 

I love nature. I love learning about animals and plants and their complex ecosystems. 

David mentions one particular phenomenon called the "shifting baseline syndrome". Basically, each generation defines normal by what it experiences, we judge the natural world as we see it TODAY. 

We look at all the beautiful wilderness; the oceans, rain forests, savannas and all the creatures thriving within them and we think it majestic, infinite. But we forget that mankind has obliterated most of the wild, and what's left today is but a tiny fraction of what it had been. 

We don't understand what we're missing. 

And that's a sad thought. 

(This is a hopeful optimistic book btw, regardless of my review😂) 

This was just perfect. I absolutely love how the characters made their decisions, they all made sense and stuck to the flow of the story and their beliefs, nobody contradicted themselves. It was just satisfying

احب المصطلحات العلمية العربية اللي اكتسبتها من هالكتاب. اللغة رائعة جدًا والسرد مشوق (مع ان الموضوع كئيب)
شعرت ان حياتها مثالية بشكل مفرط، وهذا شعور وحشي طبعا لان اللي مرت فيه حاجة صعبه جدا جدا جدا، لكن عقلي ركز على الايجابيات في حياتها اللي يبدو انها ما تأثرت (او يمكن الكاتبة ببساطة ماتحدثت عنها باسهاب). كانت من نجاح اكاديمي الى نجاح اعظم، ومن علاقة حنونة الى علاقة احن، ومحاطة بافضل الناس من اهل اصدقاء زملاء عمل اطباء نفسيين عشاق رؤساء. اغلبهم مساندين لها. 
الكتاب رائع 

Confused
Bummed out
scared
terrified
deep gouge in my chest
I'm sad
this was so strange
I didn't even understand it
but it's so damn dark 
A group of 40 women are locked up in a cage like animals, with 3 men guarding them 24/7. 
Our main character is the only child in the group of adult women. She never had a name. She predicts she was put here on accident, but they never removed her as to not give the women any clue to the reason why they were caged up in the first place. The women (except for the child) remember their pre-prison lives. But how did they end up here? they went to bed peacefully one night, then nobody remembers what happened. there are fragments of a war, maybe, but it's all so hazy. they say they were drugged for so long that they ended up forgetting everything.
One day, an alarm sounds and all the guards disappear. The women are able to escape their cage, go out into the world, only to find vast, isolated planes, without a trace of humans.
يمشون يمشون يمشون يمشون ويستمرون في ايجاد سجون اخرى، لكن السجناء فيها ماتوا داخل اقفاصهم وماقدروا يهربون. مظهر الجثث المتراكمة فوق بعض، المعذبه والخائفة والجائعة، تواجههم في كل سجن جديد. والمفاجأة ان بعض السجون خاصة بالرجال. 
but all bunkers looked exactly the same, with the same designs and supplies. 
the women, against the child's -now young adult- protests, settle in. They build houses and a kitchen and call it a village. They teach they child whatever they can, upon her insistence, even though they think it's useless. 
They start dying one by one, and she knows she'll eventually be alone. They're all so old and she's still full of life.
She keeps wandering the plains for thousands of hours, any hope of finding other escapees long lost (what coincidence lead me to this book right after I finished The Promised Neverland?), she was only met with corpses. She even stumbles upon a bus full of guards -or their skeletons-, and they have gas masks which indicates this world is not safe. But all their corpses looked serene, as if none of them expected to die. There was no sign of struggle. 
She wanders the lonely plains.
Occupied by her thoughts only.
after 20 years, she finds a hide-out underground, a home with proper furniture. She cries because she's never seen such beauty before. She doesn't long for her previous life like the other women because she doesn't remember any of it. She was born in the absurd, and the absurd is what's normal to her. 
Eventually she dies of endometrial cancer, and it's funny because she never had periods and never knew men.   

such bad poetry ugh

It's been a while since my last LN and this was really good. Like, one of the best I've read. It's very well written, interesting, lighthearted and fun!

I fucking love these books. They're always so fun and exciting. 
The book starts off with Percy burning down his new high school which his mother's new boyfriend got him into. He teams up with Rachel, the Mortal with clear sight who ends up stirring Annabeth's jealousy. 
Annabeth and Percy kiss in this one but no further romance happens and the book ends on a sad note. Now that I think about it, does Annabeth feel rejected? because they never discussed the kiss which she initiated. 
I liked how Nico slowly comes to his senses in this one, even though it might've been too simple, I dont know I wanted more drama. But when his and Percy's scene in the last chapter makes it clear that he's not a part of Camp Half-Blood, it made me really sad. I love Hades :( 
Percy learns to summon water from his guy. Annabeth finally gets her quest, which ends in tragedy because she lost Luke, her true love. 
 Grover finds Pan who wants to die. Percy and Tyson have a great relationship in this one.
It's 5am and I don't feel like continuing to write the review.