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That necklace sounds gaudy as sin, but happy for those kids 🤍

And then Tisaanah's reaction raises even more questions. She doesn't seem confused at all about being included. If someone asked me to participate in a military operation that I was wildly unqualified for and had absolutely no business being involved in, my immediate response would be, "You want me? What exactly do you think I'm going to contribute here?"

Why on God's green earth does Nura need Tisaanah to do her a favor and join the war effort just this once? Nura is supposed to be an experienced military leader. Why would she want Tisaanah on this mission at all? Tisaanah isn't a soldier. She has no combat training. She's had, what, a month of magical training? In a world where magical training normally takes place through a six-year apprenticeship?

These characters don't react like human beings with logic or reason. Characters seem to make decisions mostly because the plot needs them to, not because those decisions make sense for who they are or the circumstances they're in.

save me Jenny Slate, save me

I was waiting for when I would be sufficiently hooked and here we are!

this is suspiciously similar to Celaena and Arobynn Hamel…

girl what the fuck

what is this book?
how many tertiary characters are going to inconsequentially die in the background while the main story goes on along???

“And as we leave this era of barbarism, each and every attendant at court will know that Alethkar's first queen is a woman unafraid of doing what needs to be done. Herself."
GET THEIR ASSES JASNAH

this is like if Bojack Horseman was A Man Called Ove

god I love Wit

“Was this really what life amounted to? Fighting back and forth over the same 10 cities?” tea

Brandon BE FOR REAL
“Lift sighed, leaning back, slumping there. Too annoyed to even make a good stool joke. She wasn't really angry. Wasn't really sad. Just ... blarglegorf. Supremely blarglegorf.”

the Lift chapters are such uniquely bad writing it makes me angry

I don’t wanna hear from this asshole!

oop! father figures earnestly apologizing is my tear trigger

oh shit!

jesus this is dark

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ummmmm. I don’t know about that.

oh SHIT

Really enjoying this!

yeahhhh I don’t trust this friendly english teacher

"A throne was a kind of weapon, by which the world was cut into two halves: the dead and the kneeling."

already liking this quite a bit!

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I have very, very complicated feelings about this book.