If I hadn't read CS Pacat before I don't think I would've picked up Dark Rise based on that blurb on Goodreads. It's not usually what I gravitate towards. YA, historical setting with magic(?) and the first half of DR was draggy as hell. Thank the heavens in Pacat we trust. Which makes me wonder how many books have I missed out on just cus I don't vibe with the blurb, tags or reviews (mostly the first one). But if something piqued my interest, I do read the first available pages so I don't think I've missed that many. Growing up, the downfall of being a bookworm is that you get really picky (at least and unfortunately I'm that way) and can tell how the story unfolds, can guess the major plot points, can tell early on if the writing is for me or isn't. And I usually do not stick to the same writers (there are some, but few), but I feel like Pacat could write how their local pigeons made some shabby nest somewhere and I would still read it and cheer along. Anyhow, still no news about Dark King? I'm telling you either it got pushed back (again) to early 2027 or it comes out later this fall.

Not to add to other "think pieces" but fuck it. hmm so I have not read the 1st book, but I do understand why that storyline is important to our messy boys. Now, hmm that whole ep in the future is a skip (haha). Cus, I've seen it already, not sorry. Yeah it was cute, I understand from a storyline pov that it needed to be there. Cus if their whole smoothie thing had been sprinkled over the first 2 eps then those 2 eps wouldn't have felt this cataclysmic. We wouldn't have a momentum. So yeah we needed ep 3 fluff & heartache cus in the future it'll give us a huge payoff. Now, about that chemistry.. I didn't see it. Or maybe I'm just orbiting around ep 1 and 2 that literally changed my brain chemistry so I'm unable to see it. Not shitting on the 3rd ep, I liked it but I do not think that we needed 50 minutes of them. I just don't. Cus it felt like a whole new show all of a sudden, it was almost jarring. The beat was off, the chemistry was not chemistrying the whole rs dynamic was different (cus duh a whole new rs). Like I want to see my boys being stupid and messy and angsty and hot and hunter and skip can be fluffy on a tv screen when hunter wins that cup. FUCK.

so I asked my bff who used to work in the publishing industry, to calculate when can we expect the 3rd book and well it does not look good for us. If the manuscript got sent in August then the earliest the book can be released is in late spring (which would be hopeful). In actuality it will probably be published in fall 2026 (no big releases in summer, is the industry standard I heard). So good luck to us. I hope I’m wrong but gotta be realistic

I just went back to my initial capri review on goodreads and filled it out cus to me it is so maddening that I'd give everything just to read the series all over again with fresh eyes but there are these "booktok" reviewers who have mislabelled the whole series (mostly book 1) and misconstrued it all and in a way ruined it for people who wanted to give it a chance but won't cus their eyes landed on some shitty review. Yes, you can like a book or not, that is not what this is about. I just don't like the mislabelling. What I love about this series is that in order to get the first 2 books you gotta read the last one and that to me is so smart. This trilogy is not perfect or "perfectly written" I don't think that any book is but to me it's the closest perfect trilogy there could be. I have searched and searched and there is nothing closest to that feeling I got when reading this the first time. What I'd give to have that again. And here come the "woke" reviewers who trash on it with their haughtiness. Fuck that. You can love or hate it but don't ruin it for others with your peanut brain.

I swear that expected publication date 1st of January 2025 wasn't there before.........please be real I really can't do this anymore

That "Untitled" title on goodreads on the dr3 page is giving me an allergic reaction, honestly. I'm very patient but my patience is running thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis thin.

So when will we get Dark King release date? .. hopefully any day now in this century