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it’s my favorite time of year — the start of my annual reread<3 this will be my fourth read of tpw hehe

poppy: what training do i need to be viceroy? i can read and do math

girl you wanna run the colony please sell yourself better??????

not even slightly shocked by that death. everything about this is so predictable and obvious. like i’ve read this exact plot a hundred times

okay they were voting on something else but still nothing makes sense

also why tf did hassan try to melt a lot with fire knowing full well that it would work. like that wasn’t dramatic or high tension like it was presented. it was just idiotic?

how is viceroy a hereditary position and also something they’re voting over at the same time.

and another thing—

from the start poppy has positioned herself as a smart person but the basu is using “educating” her as the primary means of delivering world building information. so like.. no i don’t believe that poppy is smart. she actually looks really dumb.

also her play for vicerine is so impractical and the world, as its been explained to us, would just up not accept her. even if it’s birthright.

poppy: i’m the most qualified person to be viceroy and it’s my birthright!
poppy not a full minute later: no, i don’t know why the two biggest political groups don’t like each other, please explain it to me!

girl be so fr😭😭😭😭

it’s literally jus to spoon feed the readers information but it makes her look so stupid and gives the reader nothing actually thanks

poppy is so dumb
hassan: i didn’t betray you! this is my brothers doing! i’m as surprised as you are!
poppy: obviously he betrayed me and never believed in me this whole time

what if i bang my head against the wall

the review that made me pick this up said there was no romance and i’m really starting to wonder if that is true cause every trope is lined up perfectly in place

i fear this is just mid, poppy is pretty dumb and the plot feels really predictable

kinda crazy she didn’t consider that richard would just want her for her fathers position? like that’s wildly obvious 😅

so far this is okay! i’m enjoying it and have no major complaints. overall it’s just feeling a bit predictable? or like the themes are very heavy handed? also poppy’s magic reveal was very random?
i think mostly it’s that poppy is starting out as morally very Correct. which love a girl with good opinions on social justice. but i feel like she’s not left with much room to grow?

forgot i knew how to read for the past week oops.. finally back

i am enjoying this and i’m engrossed but at the same time i go thru waves of being totally lost 😅 there’s a lot of worlds and characters and some very complicated names that i’m only hearing since this is the audiobook so it’s hard to really remember it all.

i got choked up during his abduction cause is that not just how !ce is rn wtf
anyway i’m past that bit and this world is fascinating and fucked up and haunted

im actually so disappointed with how this book progressed. its oozing potential but its just trying to do TOO much.

it’s hard to feel invested in all three story lines becuase they’re all equally complex and SO different. it’s kinda too much

HIM BEING EXPOSED RIGHT NOW WAS SO UNEXPECTED??

islington might be doing a BIT too much… im having an easier time following the three different story lines if i imagine Vis as like three diff characters. but its still a lot and im following the og world plot easiest.

also the growing bond between vis and equa is a lil sus

islington takes confusing his readers as a challenge 😭
i think we’re flipping thru three copies of vis and he doesn’t totally know this is happening?

i def read too fast last time i missed alot of details LOL

i haven’t touched this in the last month cause the tropes were already losing me and feeling too heavy handed. and some friends reviews have told me i’ll continue having issues with it :/

decided to reread in prep for the sequel!!

i feel like this needs to be a “binge in one day” kinda book LOL
i stopped with like 1.5hrs left yesterday even tho i was so deeply immersed in it. and now im like scared to pick it back up because was i really that down with cannibalism?? HAHAHA help

is everyone gonna agree to kill and eat sloans husband? that would be a great plot move


idk what this book is teaching except that killing men is a worthy pastime

its giving fight club but cannibalism

we are on the brink of cannibalism and lesbianism

we're so backkkkk spotify reloaded for the month lol

i am really loving this.. i fear the same ending fumble summers had with city of stardust lol but im hoping out hope!

i def misunderstood at the beginning of the book. lowe was a first born given up. not that he gave up a first born LOL i was like damn that’s gonna be a big hurdle to overcome for a character