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I rushed through on my first reading so rereading!

I'm loving this!

This gets off to a great start and is beautifully written. But because I've been super busy and am consequently tired I'm putting it on hold in favour of a comfort reread so I can appreciate and enjoy properly!

I actually finished Book 1 a while ago but then got distracted. It's great to be back with the characters even though we're at that fantasy quest stage where most everyone has been separated and one presumed dead!

Enjoying! The writing and structure has leapt a big notch since the first in the trilogy.

All the tropes (powerful girl who apparently doesn't know she's a princess etc) but done with a twist, verve and twists and turns! Enjoying!

This is an amazing book!

I love this trilogy! Also: Zole in book 2 is a revelation.

OMG! There's a linguistics clue!

The relationships between Nona and her friends are so touching and real!

Excellent Magic Academy writing! Up there with The Poppy War. (I won't mention that other author 😂)

Rereading because the final book is out soon! But enjoying even more this time.

More murders in this book than a Midsomer ep!

Better than I expected! Perhaps I was sceptical of an American writing on this topic.

Some interesting things so far:

* Things are much more scary than in most space operas because of the plausible near future tech - ie operating in 0 g most of the time and an ever present danger of hull breach

* Distinct ideological differences between space colonies and Earth at an early stage of formation, for plausible reasons

* Murder mystery too!

Another page turner! P, the fish alien, is awesome!

So far, even better than Court of Broken Knives!

Love to know what's happening back in Sorlost so onwards!

Seems to have caused a big stir among some fantasy and grimdark readers because it's well written - ie more of a literary style than the high fantasy you might expect. And the characters are not all that likeable. But I'm finding it a great read so far!

Liking this very much!

One of the many cool things about this book is some people have little pet dinosaurs on their shoulders. This is never explained.

Two chapters! Off to a very good start. I was so in the mood for clever Space Opera!

Time to pick up this big book again!

The Emperor is dead!