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the writing style and dialogue feels so modern for a book set in the 1400s

bro WHAT

when I'm having a bad day i find comfort in knowing dakar is having a much, much worse one

anyone here like to read?

one chapter in and I'm already in love! (on account of the wet and gloomy atmosphere)

ong these men cannot keep their wives alive

am i wrong to be sensing ~something~ between sigrud and shara? it's like they're telepathically connected

i thought sanderson's mistwraiths were creepy... but the mhovost's description is making me want to curl up and purge my memory of it.
nasty little thing.

i like sigrud. he hasn't uttered a single word yet and still has the other characters shaking in their boots. a proper badass. unrelated, i love the idea of a 'steampunk fantasy'. it's sublime. too bad i haven't read a single book that lives up to how iconic the genre sounds in theory. but so far 'city of stairs' seems promising and i think it might just break that streak.

"This is who they send? This tiny, plain girl with the too-high voice? What could she possibly hope to accomplish in this endlessly hostile, endlessly suspicious place? Could she even last the night?"

lol me every time i look in the mirror

this is very slow (and the pov of a casually misogynist female character hasn't done any favors to alleviate my boredom)(i know it is quite early in the story to form a definite opinion around the characters but come on).
i am still high on 'the kingdoms' so i shall persevere...

it's me. hi. I'm on a natasha pulley bender. we love to see it. (i should be concerned for my mental health)

i cannot extricate myself from this book. or see past it. colour me dazed.

this book has already ruined my sleep schedule and emptied my tear glands. I'm only halfway through

this book has already ruined my sleep schedule and emptied my tear ducts and i'm only halfway through

biting cold aside, this novel is making me want to become a lighthouse keeper so bad. a plus.

i know there is something seriously wrong with this universe because the hospital staff and the doctors are being very nice and helpful.stuff like that simply does not happen in this timeline, no sir

lowkey can't tell if it's the book or if I'm experiencing a slump, given all the rave around this trilogy and it's author

i like the premise of the book but the writing tone is a bit too 'ya' for my tastes. i want to enjoy it but i feel like I'm missing out on the experience i would've had, had i picked this book up when i was 16. it's not a feeling I'm used to and it's proving very hard to shake. i feel sad.

i don't hate it but i don't love it either. i am kind of just not intrigued by the events so far, nor do i feel interested in how they might turn out

too bad you can't upload gifs in this space because WHAT WAS THE REASON for that prologue
WHO'S PAYING FOR MY THERAPY
WHO

quick ben kicking the sentient bitchpuppet out of his trance has been the most satisfying thing to have happened so far. i hope i get to watch tattersail send him off to hood's realm once and for all. that will make slugging through this book so so worth it. i want him dead.

my binge addicted brain is not happy about the fact that i can't sprint through this book (on account of the story making so little sense as it is)

so far i feel like I've walked into a conference room in the middle of a debate and all parties are screaming at each other in different languages. maybe i need to start taking notes

widely known as a mage killer?? at just 20 ?? man i wish i was as badass as Lorn