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"One of these won some big award, so I skipped ahead thinking it was this one. If so, then it was unwarranted. What read like world/character building in the first two installments, has calcified into a rote series of descriptors re: mechanical workings and fight scenes. BLERG." — Oct 19, 2025 08:21AM
"One of these won some big award, so I skipped ahead thinking it was this one. If so, then it was unwarranted. What read like world/character building in the first two installments, has calcified into a rote series of descriptors re: mechanical workings and fight scenes. BLERG." — Oct 19, 2025 08:21AM
There were two young women at the table opposite the one Chih took, so different that they couldn’t even have been mistress and servant.
“There was something wry and ironic about his face, like he knew a great many secrets and found all of them slightly ridiculous.”
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“You want your prick gobbled up by a lurking turtle, then feel free to piss where you like,” said Malo. “It’s been so long since my prick was gobbled by anything, ma’am,” retorted Tangis, “that p’rhaps I’d not turn down a reaper-back’s kiss.”
― A Drop Of Corruption: Shadow Of Leviathan, Band 2
― A Drop Of Corruption: Shadow Of Leviathan, Band 2
“When Ana was finally admitted, the sheer amount of smugness radiating off her was so tremendous that it drew glares from nearly everyone.”
― A Drop of Corruption
― A Drop of Corruption
“I wondered if even the air was expensive in here, then saw it was: a massive kirpis mushroom had been built into the corner of every main room—a tall, black fungus built to suck in air, clean it, and exhale it out at a cooler temperature.”
― The Tainted Cup
― The Tainted Cup
“For I will still be in need of an assistant investigator,” she said. “And you did a decent job in Talagray.” She thought for a moment. “Could have been cheerier and smiled a bit more, sure, but still, a good job. I would have you keep doing it, if you prefer.”
― The Tainted Cup
― The Tainted Cup
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