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"But all this was a fairy tale. In relentlessly enforcing the glamour, she had closed off her other options. And now she was left in a trap she had constructed for herself."

You and me both, girl. Hate-read inching dangerously close to a DNF.

"In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine."


That's not a quote from katabasis. It's from a much better book.


Anyway, Kuang should have made this book about the evils of modern academy, and the only reasons why she wouldn't are cowardice or a fetishization of the very aesthetic she's trying to condemn.

Just like Piranesi if Piranesi was bad and twice as long and written by what I can only assume, from context clues carefully hidden in the text, is the most insufferable person on this planet