#claudia lux

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[adimentiia]

do you ever read something that takes you so out of the book that you can't think of anything else

#sign here #calamity ganon #claudia lux #my stuff #adi reads #chismoseando

[readbooksovermygrave]

I am completely behind on my reading goal for the year because I hardly have any time to read anymore. The universe has decided that wasn't ideal and decided to step in and have me get some surgery to slow things down for a bit. I used this time to finish up a book I'd been stuck on for about five weeks. This is Sign Here by Claudia Lux.

Check the trigger warnings here!

A darkly humorous, surprisingly poignant, and utterly gripping debut novel about a guy who works in Hell (literally) and is on the cusp of a big promotion if only he can get one more member of the wealthy Harrison family to sell their soul. Peyote Trip has a pretty good gig in the deals department on the fifth floor of Hell. Sure, none of the pens work, the coffee machine has been out of order for a century, and the only drink on offer is Jägermeister, but Pey has a plan—and all he needs is one last member of the Harrison family to sell their soul.   When the Harrisons retreat to the family lake house for the summer, with their daughter Mickey’s precocious new friend, Ruth, in tow, the opportunity Pey has waited a millennium for might finally be in his grasp. And with the help of his charismatic coworker Calamity, he sets a plan in motion.   But things aren’t always as they seem, on Earth or in Hell. And as old secrets and new dangers scrape away at the Harrisons’ shiny surface, revealing the darkness beneath, everyone must face the consequences of their choices. -PRH

Sign Here is a book I found out about through TikTok (shoutout to booktok) and the premise hooked me immediately. I'm not one to buy horror books physically on a whim because some have intense subject matter that makes me uncomfortable to consume, so I always make sure my library has a copy I can read on Libby before deciding on whether or not I wanna commit to purchasing a physical copy of the book. After reading it, though, I can say for certain that I'll be picking up a copy of my own when I can.

Pros:

The author depicts hell and its denizens in a way that's fresh and interesting. I feel like the whole "fire and brimstone" thing would've gotten stale quickly so this perspective is appreciated.

The story isn't as cut and dry as I had originally thought it would be. I was sure I knew how this book would play out, down to the point where I was mad at plot inconsistencies. Turns out I was just flat-out wrong about a lot of stuff, and I'm glad about it (my annotations were all over the place the whole time I was reading and I'm sure I'll look back on them and laugh later). All the twists and turns made this such an enjoyable read.

Cons:

The story takes a little time to pick up steam as it introduces all of the moving pieces of the plot. I found it a little boring at the beginning, but take this with a grain of salt as I'm a little biased. I'm not a fan of stories that are told from multiple perspectives. That's more on me as someone with auDHD and has nothing to do with the author. Just for my other auDHD/neurodivergent readers who might have this same issue, stick with the story, it gets GOOD!

Rating: 💀💀💀💀/5

#book review #book blog #fiction #horror #fantasy #finished #bookblr #sign here #claudia lux

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Review: Sign Here by Claudia Lux

Author: Claudia LuxPublisher: BerkleyReleased: October 25, 2022Received: Own (BOTM) Book Summary: Peyote Trip, not his real name, has worked hard to get to the fifth floor of Hell. Now that he’s here, it is his job to land new souls to keep this messed-up operation running smoothly. In other words, he’s one of the people (demons?) you deal with when trading away your soul. Believe it or not,…

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Kayla Reviews SIGN HERE

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⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. SUMMARY Peyote Trip has a pretty good gig in the deals department on the fifth floor of Hell. Sure, none of the pens work, the coffee machine has been out of order for a century, and the only drink on offer is Jägermeister, but Pey has a plan—and all he needs is one last member of the Harrison family to sell their soul. When the Harrisons retreat to the family lake…

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Clever Contracts

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Working can be a tireless slog through the same torturous efforts, especially in Hell, but one cog in the machine has a plan to change that in Sign Here by Claudia Lux. Working in the Deals Department in Hell, Peyote Trip has a better existence and job than many within Hell, even if his environment frequently conspires against him with nonfunctioning pens and only having Jägermeister as a…

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[hazy-siren]

Upon realizing that no such quiz already existed, i cordially invite you all to take my Which iconic Kirsten Dunst character are you? quiz because Kirsten Dunst has contributed so much to cinema and is highly underrated and deserves all the recognition

#there is literally no bad result #i got verena von stefan from all i wanna do! #kirsten dunst #personality quiz #uquiz #the virgin suicides #little women #lux lisbon #amy march #claudia #interview with the vampire #marie antoinette #sofia coppola #drop dead gorgeous #amber atkins #torrance shipman #bring it on #mona lisa smile #betty warren #mary jane watson #spiderman #verena von stefan #all i wanna do #strike!

[nsewell]

MOVED TO TEARS BY RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS THIS APRIL MORNING

#it's so silly but my coworker gifted me a book he loves he does this every now and then and just to be thought of in that way. #he's 50 and gay and has immaculate taste and we have the best media discussions. he brought it all gift wrapped and everything #i need to write a thank you note or something #sign here by claudia lux has anyone read it

[yellow-dejavu]

#dark netflix #eva's world #erit lux #even though eva's world is the one that received more attention there's still a bunch of things that they didn't show #i will never get over of Egon as a traveler #they show it one time and pretended that i didn't wanted to know everything about it #also all the characters that we never saw in their eva's world version #i'm gonna suposse that they all have bangs #dark netflix meme #shitpost #i posted this #apocalypse family #s3 barely showed any interaction between these four and somehow I can't stop thinking about them #claudia was the leader and the only adult they have in their lives #jonas was everyone's favorite sad boy #the two of them learned sign language #elisabeth was the little one and she was adored by all of them #noah and his 1920s boy attitude was somehow the comedic relief of the group #they were like a sad sitcom and i'm sure they felt less sad because of elisabeth #claudia and elisabeth were the smart ones of the group #noah and jonas were smart too but they also were noah and jonas #they were like a family #i have no proof but no doubt either #1888 gang #poor agnes was born in this timeline and also had so little screen time #maybe baran and jantje realized that 1888 was the time period when magnus x franziska did something apart from loving each other #and inmediatley discarded the possibility of showing it because they went like “nope doing something onscreen defies their whole purpose” #i will always sound crazy talking about how beautiful Bartosz and Silja's love story is when they only have four scenes #this show had a weird 50something having to take care of a group of teenagers in the 19th & 20th century and decided not to elaborate on it #this show is so iconic

[procrastinationandnightmares]

My season five predictions for The Dragon Prince:

1. Callum gets the opportunity to hurt or kill Claudia but Rayla tells him to spare her because she gave her the coins.

2. Aaravos or Viren come to the conclusion that they have to sacrefice Terry but Claudia dies to save him.

3. RUTHARI REUNION!!!

4. Duren and Katolis form an alliance for something (anything) so we get to see Aanya again.

5. Janaya child?

6. Sir Sparklepuff turning into some other creepy monster.

#THE DRAGON PRINCE #janai #amaya #Rayla #claudia #terry #viren #ezran #queen aanya #katolis #duren #lux aurea #xadia #azymondias #zym #janaya #rayllum #clauderry #aaravos #sir sparklepuff

[wiklec]

#violet evergarden #novela ligera #Akatsuki Kana #Lux #Claudia Hodgins #Cattleya Baudelaire #Benedict Blue

[lux1isbon]

created by me!!

#lana del rey #nympette #coquette #sofia coppola #lolita #the virgin suicides #lux lisbon #lizzy grant #girl blogger #heroine chic #90s supermodel #90s icons #90s style #90s fashion #2000s grunge #kate moss #trashy chic #naomi campbell #claudia schiffer

[galaxyspark-6e16]

i didn't say anything last it felt a little weak but damn season 5 really surpassed my expecation

and now im scared.

#the dragon prince #tdp spoilers #my thoughts #honestly i feel for janai and claudia his season #they re are not having a good time #my soren showing off his character #devlopment #SO GLAD VIREN FINALY WOKE UP REALIZING HE FCK UP BIG TIME AND IT ALL HIS CHOICES THAT LED HIM ON THIS PATH #and callum its ok nobody is going to reproc for uusing dark magic if you hadnt then it wouldnt let to yo learning the ocean arcana #and everyone wouldve died #i feel the high preist of lux aurea is corrupted or infected that aaravos is influencing his action #from s3 and it will lead a domino effect to a fight for the crown between sol regem and zubeia and zym #and speaking of zubeia i love her character whichh is wh i was so ditraugh and scared that she might die and that scene with her husband #is so heartwarming and for a sec thougt it was a halucination from the corruption #we still don't know if shes gonna be okay #and theres still so many things that go unexplaned like who was inn the coin in ep 1 #is the statue beside aaravos in the sea of castouut leola or another startouch elf #AND IS HARROW THE BIRD?! it litteraly hinting at it!!!! #also i gasped when i read the last ep cause it was what sir sparkle was saying the whole season and here im thinking oh no ezran is a child #hes in danger! but then its clarifies that its viren cild and im like SOREN cause like we know he wont sacriface claudia #AND THEN ITS REVEALED ITS SIR SPARKLE THAT MUST DIE WHICH MAKES A LOT OF SENCE SINCE THE FIRST SEASON HE POURED HIS BLOOD #which means aaravos has been planning pulling the strings since the beginning hes so desperate to be free heleach off the first person who #could help him and god i think should rewatch all season to see more clues #and those are my thoughts sorry if its chaotic in here this season is way better than the last and surprised me also finnergard #glad he ded the ship is crab took me complealy by surprise

[readbooksovermygrave]

Recovering from surgery means I have more time to read for the next six weeks. Time to put a dent into this!

#cherry.txt #currently reading #booklr #book blog #bookworm #horror #sign here #claudia lux

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I really thought that Gilbert was going to find out more about Violet's past. second Benedict said that he had found clues about his younger sister, but the subject is not mentioned again, we know that he has been saving to make another trip to find her

We should petition for Akatsuki Kana to write more, lol. Jk but I'd love if VE came back one day to explain all the shit that was never revealed or confirmed.

I am one of those people who first saw the anime and then read the novel, obviously I prefer the novel, without reading the novel, I realized that characters like Erika and Iris are empty, especially Erika who we only know that she wants to be a writer and iris i hate her

I like that “obviously” a lot. XD

Sorry it doesn't let me write much but it continued. Erika is a character who happens in limbo, she has nothing interesting and she has no chemistry with anyone. pffff Erika×benedicto seems like a joke, Cat, well at first it gave me a good impression, well you know I saw the anime first, but I prefer the Novela, even so it is the only one of the group of ch that I like as a friend of Violeta, or older sister, since they do have chemistry, I'm not satisfied with Cat anime, but I like it

Yeah, Tumblr has a character limit for asks! But don't worry, you can send me as many as you want whenever! Also, I agree, it felt like a joke. I guess it was a joke.

I agree with the take on Cattleya as well. She's the only canon character whose anime counterpart didn't bother me that much. But yes, she's a thousand times more interesting in the novel. I think I didn't mind her because they changed her appearance so much along with her personality that it felt like I was looking at an entirely different character, just with the same name.

I hate that they removed the gay part from the anime, but she is the only one in the anime who can be considered Violet's best friend, because they have a lot of chemistry. the only character that was created by the Anime that I like is Luculia, because unlike Erika and Iris (you don't know how much I hate iris) she is the only one who is interested in Violeta and wants to help her in a certain way, maybe they are not the best friends but they look good

Lux will always be the bestie and without her, there's no bestie at all! And yeah, I like Luculia too. I like all the characters from the Doll school, tbh. They were nice.

You don't know how much I hate Iris, it's something that has stayed with me since the 2nd chapter, she's a capricious girl and her reason for being a doll doesn't make sense, she doesn't seem to have talent either, in her story they want to make her look like someone who breaks stereotypes with him typical "there is more to life than marrying a man" and wearing pants

Not much makes sense in the anime, tbh. And actually, Iris did want to marry a guy, lol. Btw, her pants were a design choice in order to make the characters have different styles from each other, according to Takase Akiko. In the last movie, she's wearing a skirt.

without realizing Violet (more in the novel than anime of course) does not break, like breaking a pencil, if she does not put a bomb on the word stereotype and she is not a woman, she is a WOMAN (in the novel it is clearer why is more independent than in the anime, since in the novel he destroys even the universe) successful, hard-working, strong (strong if he falters if we talk about anime) and capable of anything for the love of his life (in this part I prefer put Gil novel)

I don't get why Violet's pronouns are masculine here, but I agree with this too.

Well, I've gotten off the topic of my hatred of Iris, she's an empty character, her actions have no motive or reason, they should have placed her in another section as a portfolio if she wants to break stereotypes so much, they should never have placed her as "Violet's best friend" that no one eats it

“No one eats it” I’m losing my shit at this bit.

Iris must have come across as someone who doesn't like Violet or someone who at first didn't like her, but now she likes her a little better, if we left her as a best friend she would be a bit toxic, don't you think?

Well, I don’t think they’re best friends. Even the anime never really mentioned that. Lux ftw.

Writing up to this point I realize two things: first, my hatred of Iris is more than enormous XD, second, violet anime does not have many "friends" and is much more lonely which makes me sad, because almost nobody really knows her

Yeah. That’s one of the things that gets me (in a bad sense) about the anime. It’s so unnecessarily lonely. So depressing. So bleak. Hardly anybody actually seems to have a deep connection with anyone, and when they do, it’s always the canon characters. The anime originals waltz in, do a few things, say some bullshit that supposedly is very deep, and boom, everything is solved. It’s so empty and so lackluster.

Violet anime does not have a solid relationship in the anime, rather she is alone, Gilbert anime, better not mention it because it would never end, Hog is an attempt at father, although in the end it is only if the boss who helped her and that's it, Erika and Iris are just coworkers, Cat is the only one who really cares about Violeta and supports her maybe not as much as the one in the novel, but she gives us a feeling of mother and daughter

I gotta disagree with that one. Even Cattleya was set aside in the movie. She was barely there and didn’t seem to miss Violet at all.

Benedicto is just a co-worker, Luculia will be like that friend you see from time to time, the real friend is Amy and it's sad that they can't see each other, that's why I don't think it's strange that Violet doesn't miss her classmates, when he leaves with PunkHoel Gil

Wow, this punk hoe Gil thing really will never die. XDDD

none can replace Lux who is quite interesting and has a certain resemblance to Violeta, and I have come to feel that they are like sisters and it shows that Violeta loves her very much, the one who half reaches her (well, she does not step on her heels) is Luculia who I felt similarity in wanting to help Violeta

Yep!

the ch team from the anime is a work team without depth and without development, you can't talk about them as "friends" or "Family" Hoggins and Cat would have a one night stand XD and neither has a friendly chemistry with Violet

Still not over the fact that Hodgins and Cattleya actually had sex in the anime. And Hodgins didn’t think much of it. Ugh.

the ch team of the novel are literally a Family there is a lot of chemistry between them and especially with Violet, they have a deep relationship and we can meet and sympathize with them

Preach!

in conclusion, violet anime does not have many friends, she is more lonely and does not have much chemistry with the other characters as it should be, in violet novel, she has a better relationship with the characters and I can feel that she is not alone and more with Gil novel violet novel can return home and feel a family a boyfriend and is safer, violet anime, returns home and only finds her co-workers

You get it!

I love you so much and sorry for writing a bible

I love you more! And I love bibles! Write as many as you want!

#violet evergarden #gilbert bougainvillea #claudia hodgins #cattleya baudelaire #benedict blue #lux sybil #iris cannary #erica brown #luculia marlborough #amy bartlett

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Omg?

Finished part one of "Sign Here"

I am so intrigued to learn more 👀

#oceans reading #book : sign here by claudia lux