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“…threaten not only his safety and wellbeing but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.”

love spider

this book is strange. struggle to pick it up, but once reading can’t put it down. susan makes the tension between characters feel tangible and knows how to describe a landscape beautifully

i like how you can feel arthur’s annoyance about superstitions and people not telling him what’s wrong with eel marsh