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if you told me this is mostly just welsh slang and not a surprisingly convincing fictional language, i'd believe you

talk about a distinct narrative voice... fastest way to make me like a book, EASY

how am i only half way through this book

best part of the book so far

i don't know enough about shakespeare to say with confidence that this is a surprise macbeth retelling, but i think its a surprise macbeth retelling

i can excuse possibly killing 2 people, but i draw the line at pouring prescription medication down the drain

a lot of bold choices are being made with the text that's for sure

entering my divorced men's fiction era

i just know this book is gonna match my literary freak

this is kind of like mean girls but if they were constantly being attacked by the physical embodiment of hopelessness and the horrors of colonization

this book will always remind you of how terrible british people are

"mr. helpman" and "dr. goodsir" might sound like names taken from a kojima game but it turns out those actually were some dudes on the HMS terror and erebus

this is on par with dracula in terms of borderline hilarious dramatic irony

having come from the AMC adaptation, i was not expecting the narration to be as jovial as it is

wow!!! shockingly depressing!!!

crazy that this was written ahead of covid

very predictable in terms of its apocalyptic tropes, but i'm still having fun

[points] Interview With The Vampire mention

they just don't do love triangles as devious as this anymore

the dramatic irony is somehow both tragic and incredibly funny

can't believe we're being told a backstory within a backstory within a backstory and it's gone on for 30 pages at this point

sick and twisted

"you want him destroyed so that you need never fear of grieve for him anymore" MS RICE YOU ARE SICK IN THE HEAD!!!!

this is an allegory for something methinks

this is incredibly interesting to read after having watched the amc tv adaptation

im usually not a big fan of first-person narration, but damn does this book do it well

"she would have been gorgeous if someone had thrown her into a waterfall and held her there for half an hour" ok girl