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Reading this via Dracula Daily on Substack but I might just go ahead and read it on my own because I’m getting impatient to see what happens. SO EFFING JUICYYYYYYY

holy moly

okay so I’m back and I rly want to work thru this before I have to return it to the library 🤖 might try and scan some of the crónicas so I can finish on my iPad I AM COMMITTED TO THIS COLLECTION NO MATTER HOW MANH TIMES I GIVE UP I WILL KEEP RETURNING TBHHHHH 💯💯💯 so much better now I’ve been there and can understand references thru the flaneur experience lol

This book asks interesting questions about the real world through the genre of fantasy/revisionist history but the YA tone is really hard for me to stomach

this book is SO FUCKING GOOD!!!!! making me rethink the colonial triangulation (quadrangulation?????) between China/HK, Mexico, the US and the UK at the turn of the century. it’s laugh out loud funny in the same way that it is also horrifying. answering a lot of my questions abt British Chinese political conscience and history, framed through a Chinese expat’s perspective so it’s hitting extra