Status Updates From The Daughters' War (Blackto...

"It is tiring to deal with someone who has made an enemy of you when you do not think of them at all. But, of course, this is often why they hate you."

"But that is what the gods are for, is it not?
To lift us when we are broken, and to stanch us when we bleed faith."

DNF for now 🥲The concept seems very intriguing, and I find myself wanting to learn more. The narrative style has greatly thrown me off. It’s first person perspective, but written as a conversational memoir. Most of the writing seems to prefer telling instead of showing, usually spoiling opportunities for mystery, or refusing details as an unreliable narrator. Neat concept, but not what I was l anticipating

“Take it,” he said.
“No.”
“Gods gathered, why not?”
“I will fight harder knowing I have no escape.”

Lord but I love Galva’s fairness and strength.

“Though my mother would not die in the physical sense until the last months of this war, it seems to me that she had for some time lived only as a ghost.”

“As a Duke’s daughter, it had not occurred to me that the gods would smell differently to the poor.”