Status Updates From A Declaration of the Rights...

At this point I'm just annoyed... If the author had changed the countries names and the people's name, this book could be good. But because it's so close to the real thing, I keep wondering : if I remove the magic, is the story holding ? And yes. The answer is yes. The story is almost exactly what happened in France's history at the time.
That's lazy writing.

Honestly this is such a lazy story... Took an History book and gave magical powers to a few people and made a book out of it. Feels reductive as a french person reading about the french revolution being reduced to some people with magic fighting one another in the streets of Paris. Like dude ? hope the book gets better or finds a way not to remain so boring and finds its way out of an History we know well

oh gosh this massive very historical fantasy novel really is very much about friendship *shocked because this very historical fantasy novel made me tear-up”

i just reread the blurb and it IS literally the French Revolution/Haitian Revolt from the perspective of fucking Robespierre, PM William Pitt, Louveture, and other real historical players of the century 💀 we might be dnfing esp if they downplay slavery as a “black ppl don’t have magic white ppl do”

i think this book is just the politics of the late 1700s but with magic….like why tf is marie antoinette being name dropped and why is she a fire mage….