#wildlinged

yeah i agree with a lot of this especially how a lot of it moved really slowly and the characters are SO central to the plot and the relationship between wanda and melanie is very well-done and im glad you ended up liking it

yeah like you know me i'm not going to cry about anything not directly related to me but i was reading it at school and in the end when mel is convincing wanda not to leave i actually had to try so hard not to cry

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yeah i mean a lot of ppl i follow are in the fandom so most of my tl was the host + it did badly so we wanted ppl to see it so it would do well and yeah it kinda sinks in as good after u read it like during its kinda boring

i feel u there melwanda is thebest part of it tbh. and idc abt jelanie and i love owanda but honestly i didnt start really loving them until like 6 months after i finished the book so idk but yeah i agree w most of this!!!!

idk i actually didn't like it that much while i was reading until maybe the last hundred pages but then it's like after looking back on it i just sighed and was like hey this actually wasn't bad and i was wrong for not wanting to finish it

well i guess it's because like where i personally thought it was faulty it was really flawed but then the parts i liked were really well done and that was somehow enough to cancel out the bad parts imo

i feel like the best part of this book was the characterization, particularly of mel and wanda. this story was driven by the protagonists, who were exceptionally well-written. the struggles and scenes involving them are all really well done. and meyer really does a great point trying to use them as a means to convey the overall theme - i started crying at the scene where wanda is out with jared and ian and she sees the little kid on the swings and that's a symbol of hope

and more specifically from that just the friendship between mel and wanda was enough for me to bump up my goodreads rating of it from three to four stars it was just really real and i love how well it developed and how eventually they saw the other as sisters, and how mel was willing to let wanda stay in her body, even though she's basically the third wheel, and how wanda was willing to die for mel. it's not like one of those can't live without the other relationships because they can, and certainly do, but the bond between them is just so great man like i cried when the book was over and this is why

also with ships it's a confusing subject because i liked jelanie and o'wanda probably in equal amounts but i honestly didn't feel like it was as central to the plot as the fandom makes it out to be???? they're both great for different reasons but i just didn't see them as much as i feel like i should have

and then with all the other minor characters i feel like they were either really well done or they just weren't there at all like i finished the book not knowing who some of the people were and we only get five seconds of screen time with pet and i already know every detail about her life

the writing was sort of ok not exceptional but you know what i didn't like in the book was the plot like i hate how slowly it went but then when something interesting DID happen i had no idea what was going on like was that even SUPPOSED to be a plot twist???? like it wasn't clear when i should've been surprised or when i shouldn't have

the concept was super interesting though and it sort of grows on you

though as much as i may have liked it i actually don't want there to be a sequel like i feel like everything was tied up super nicely and any sequel just wouldn't do the first one justice and it would be kind of like the second part of the tmi series.

the doctor always asks me if im sexually active and i just look at him bc i mEAN I HAVE A PURITY RING DUH AND SERIOUSLY WHO WOULD HAVE SEX WITH ME ANYWAY

idk i feel like that's what they have to ask everyone but literally same i don't know where anyone gets the idea

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(tmi kinda) i went today bc my period was REALLY heavy and she had to feeL AROUND AND ASKED ME RLY AKWARD QUESTIONS I WAS READY TO D I E