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I have mixed feelings about this book, and I'm considering to drop it.
Firstly, the writing annoys me. The dialogue comes out stilted and oddly formal, where almost every single line could've been an inspirational quote. Well, you could say that might be Hana's quirk, because she comes from a different world than ours, but when Keishin and the narrator also do it, that's a bit much.

I want to dnf this book... I don't care about the characters, I don't care about the plot anymore either. The insect and bird slander puts me off too. I have no idea what timeline the story is operating on, only that every chapter dragggggs.

Nearly halfway! I don't know what I feel. The story is feeling kind of slow, and I don't really feel rooted to anyone yet. The magic is pretty cool and the atmosphere is immersive too. However the writing sometimes sounds like it's trying too hard to sound mystical -- or maybe that's just historical fantasy tone that I'm not used to.

The names...I can't--
The King's name: Quercus Rowan, so basically Oak Rowan tree lol
Also what's up with the generous helpings of 'y'. When I first realised Ravyn is pronounced Raven I spit out the water I'm drinking. Then there's Jespyr (?)
Sorry I laughed so hard at Nya's name. Reminds me of Nyan cat
I can't take this book seriously hahahahah

Someone's skin is described as 'olive' and I can't help imagine them being green like Elphaba lol.

I've been enjoying this book so far, but why is it soooo long.
Also the romantic relationships seem way too easy to ignite for everybody... is that realistic??

Urgh why do I have a pang of homesickness? The character relationships are so beautiful and real it makes me cry. I wanna hug them all

Kind of want to DNF this book. Just past the point they escaped the marsh horse man and met up with Tansy, and frankly I don't care what happens next. I'm just getting rather bored.

Even from the beginning I can tell this book is going to be EPIC. Chills.

Is Mask actually Mina?

Nearly there: halfway through part 5. I liked part 1 the most after all. Also, I need CONTEXT, because it feels like the meaning of each poem runs away from me the further I go...

Wilfred Owen: A Terre
George Orwell's morbid (?) obsession with rats e.g in 1984
Ted Hughes: Sing the Rat

Paw Tracks in Moonlight -- Denis O'Connor
I & Claudius -- Clare de Vries
Felix the Railway Cat -- Huddersfield train station
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle -- Murakami

Schrodinger's cat -- Ursula Le Guin

Ordeal in Space, The Cat who walked through walls, To Sail beyond the Sunset, The Door into Summer -- Robert A. Heinlein

'Mouse' Frederic Brown

The Cinder Spires -- Jim Butcher

Tomcat Murr by Hoffman

More books:

Tobermory (Saki) -- talking cats reveal everyone's scandals

Some books I want to read:

Wyrd Sisters (Terry Pratchett) -- Greebo, Nanny Ogg's cat
Tailchaser's song (Tad Williams) -- a fantasy quest
A Cat, a Man, and Two Women (Jun'ichiro Tanizaki) -- romcom?
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Old Possum's book of Practical Cats (T.S.Eliot) -- inspired the musical

Children's books:
Cat is sleepy, Me and my cat (Satoshi Kitamura) -- grumpy cat tries to sleep, latter body swap with cat

'...but it also reaffirmed what I'd always feared. That the others were bonding without me.'

I'm crying, girl. Same here

Aww, Spensa finally getting some bonding time and human decency. But I have a hunch Sanderson's going to kill one of the girls. And I don't think I'll recover from that when it does happen.

Gosh. That was brutal. Two deaths in one chapter.

I'm warming up to Spensa at last. She was so insufferable at the start. Hopefully she'll mellow out.
That girl's speeches are so hilariously dramatic lollll

Armstrong? Armstrong? All settled then, but why are there so many pages left!
Arrrgh I/m losing my sanity any minute now...

what the heck did he just died? Now I'm pretty suspicious of Lambod.
Definitely not Vera, still

half past 3 in the afternoon: Miss Brent just died

Thoughts: can't be Vera or Armstrong: if he really is the murderer, he would have been more careful with it. Lombard seems suspicious, but too obvious to be him.
Blore and Wargrave is possible. More likely to be Wargrave, he seems omniscient.

Now on chapter 15