#ask bix

(Sorry if this has been mentioned before and I missed it.)

Your girlfriend has good taste!

I’m a sucker for dragons, especially when they’re written as sentient main characters and not just animals with telepathy. The fact that each of them had such clear and distinct personalities and each bonded with their rider in a different way really appealed to me and made me care about the dragon/rider relationship.

I also really liked the FMC. It was nice to see a main char who was disabled, with a disability that was written so well, and at no point in the story was her disability magically cured or turned into a superpower or treated as a cheap plot device. For the most part, I found her to be rational, intelligent and relatable, which was a refreshing change from a lot of other stories I read this year.

Yarros’s writing style isn’t the norm for the fantasy genre, and for me, that’s a good thing. I like the casual language and recognizable slang, and I’m a reader who isn’t turned off by infodumping so I appreciated scenes like the morning briefs where we were told info we needed instead of inferring it from other interactions.

Yup. 😊

Ugh, this has been the worst week of my damn life, I swear. My heart is apparently wanting to set a land speed record and no one can figure out why. And for some reason the cardiologist I was referred to doesn’t think my heart rate of 168 bpm is a cardiac issue??? And doesn’t want me to come in??? And the ER ran a whole battery of tests on me and everything came back clean, which is good but also frustrating because it doesn’t make any goddamn sense that I’m apparently perfectly healthy except for my heart being wired to explode any moment.

But my pcp talked to the cardiologist directly and I’m going in next week to get a holter monitor for a few days, and my pcp has also switched up a bunch of my meds and I’ve only been on them for 24 hours but they seem to be working better than the old combo.

So fuck. I don’t really know how I’m doing tbh, but I’m still alive? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Living that “fuck it we ball” life rn while the care team throws spaghetti at the wall.

Delilah would NEVER make that face, that is the face of a fae lunatic for sure 🤣🤣🤣