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“All cages are meant for breaking.”

I feel like the clay on her jeans is a clue.

“Many of us did not want the job of being monsters.” 😭

NAPOLEON!!!!!!

Eight books in and can we please defeat Napoleon or what

“We did not get ourselves into trouble, at all. It came to us, without any effort on our parts.”

I’m going to shelve this book for now. I have gotten a lot out of hearing Mother Theresa’s heart’s readiness for the call to the poor. But being weighed down in the bureaucracy of waiting for official church sanction is not encouraging in this season of my life. Will return to this at another point, I am certain.

Total set-up. I’m thinking it’s some French agent

Jane Austen would love amnesiac Lawrence’s consternation at things he has learned since joining the corps. A woman admiral?! Do I have a daughter I forgot about? Do I treat this woman as a lady or as an officer? Love what we’ve done in this book

I love listening to her process of finding her love for the work of running.

The struggle with an audiobook: I can’t listen at work so I’ve been in suspense since my lunch break. What do these blood tests reveal?!

I love that, amnesia or not, Laurence has no fear of Temeraire. ❤️

Is this egg going to be a luck dragon?

I really enjoy this being read by the author. She is painting a vivid picture of long distance running culture and an ultra competitive childhood. I’d run from that, too

I love hearing the author’s voice and her defence of romance as a genre. Yes, we will keep reading everything you write.

Amnesia always bodes ill.

Bonus chapter! Read by the author! From Charlie’s perspective!

Sair is the real hero of this story

Love Thadred’s theory about short people. Can confirm

Lleuad to the rescue!

I get what Thadred’s doing, but he needs to back off

“The bad thing you’re worried about is never the bad thing that happens. It’s always some other bad thing you’re not expecting.”

“Societal expectations were often by their nature ironic.”

“You can’t forgive all your enemies.”
Don’t tell me how to live, Amira

“I don’t have anxiety. I just worry all the time.”

Finally they’re getting a clue

This time around caught the Jack Stapleton reference

Can we start shouting from the rooftops that Western beauty standards are based on people within days of dying of tuberculosis?! Please, please tell all women only the dying are absurdly skinny, pale skinned, red cheeked, and we romanticize the agony.

End notes from chapter one and I’m already crying