#firefight

See you on the other side, trooper! 🫡

Psalm 23:4 💜

Hi Sara :))!

:0000! Omigosh thank you so much for the suggestion! I've just made it to the halfway point in Firefight and yeaaaahhhhh I get the feeling I'm really gonna be needing that turtle tots fic 😭😭🥹😀👍.

I can't wait to check it out, thank you again:)!

See you in the other side 🫡

Guess who just finised reading Empathy Amplified by @filsa-mek the other day

And who just started reading Firefight by @remedyturtles 2 days ago

Yep it's me you guessed it

Favorite passage/quote of 2025?

I think I may have already shared this, but I can't help it, this is my favorite passage from Fireflight by Brandon Sanderson:

I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet. “You’re like a potato!” I shouted after her. “In a minefield.” She froze in place. Then she spun on me, her face lit by a half-grown fruit. “A potato,” she said flatly. “That’s the best you can do? Seriously?” “It makes sense,” I said. “Listen. You’re strolling through a minefield, worried about getting blown up. And then you step on something, and you think, ‘I’m dead.’ But it’s just a potato. And you’re so relieved to find something so wonderful when you expected something so awful. That’s what you are. To me.” “A potato.” “Sure. French fries? Mashed potatoes? Who doesn’t like potatoes?” “Plenty of people. Why can’t I be something sweet, like a cake?” “Because cake wouldn’t grow in a minefield. Obviously.”

Book which had the overall greatest impact on you this year?

Most thrilling, unputdownable book of 2025?

Firefight by Brandon Sanderson was the only book I read this year that I'd really consider a thriller, so I'll go with that. The pace of the Reckoners books is really snappy, with lots of fun dialogue and funny descriptions. And the thrill is only heightened because it's a story of a normal guy with no powers fighting against supervillains. It's got all the classic hallmarks of how Brandon Sanderson writes action, like taking the time early on to lay out all the mechanics of the "magic system" that will come into play, and then having the main character approach the battle almost like a mystery or a puzzle in order to do the impossible and kill the unkillable.

And this book also has a water jetpack and trees that talk to you via fortune cookies, so...

Book that was most outside your comfort zone/new genre exploration?

Switching out today's questions because these ones are more interesting:

A book you did not finish in 2025

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera was one I technically started in 2024, but yay, I get to use it to answer this question this year too :/ I picked the book up because of its intriguing title, and the premise was interesting enough - in an alternate future, there is an organization that gives you a phone call 24 hours before you die. There's no way to get out of it; you're definitely going to die one way or another, and this is your one last chance to do some of those things you've been putting off before you run out of time. This book follows two teenage boys with very different lives who are both told they will die in 24 hours. It just didn't go in directions I was hoping it would, and I slowly got a creeping suspicion that there was going to be a romance between the two main characters, which I was not interested in watching play out, so I eventually just skimmed the rest of the book to see how they died and dropped it. Not my cup of tea at all.

A book that made you laugh

Firefight by Brandon Sanderson was full of great bits of dialogue, as all of his Reckoners series is. There were several laugh-out-loud moments, like this one: