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So excited to read this it literally got me through bel canto bcs I told myself I wasn’t allowed to start until after I finished that terrible awful book

“Americans have a bad habit of thinking like Americans” she said, somehow under the impression that she’d produced something more expansive than that within the last 200 pages

Heart of darkness reference 😬😬😬😬

Fine!!! I’ll finish it!!!!!!

“Horror” “novel”

Ppl do not talk like this im crying

I’m so glad I get a protracted dying monologue from someone who has not spoken yet in this long long long ass book!

3 pages in and I’ve already googled “has Ann Patchett been to Lima” (the answer was not shocking)

All the reviews like “this perfectly captures a stress dream” idk why you’re having stress dreams where you’re god and everyone loves you but I just had one where my bedroom was infested with crabs and they came down from my ceiling like spiders

This is such a slog omfg

Forget I said that mean thing before I was wrong

More books should abandon plot and characterization and setting for a series of nonsense vignettes describing a conflict I don’t understand or care about this is really awesome

Im booing this sucks this sucks this sucks

Multi-dimensional doomed Harem… ok…

My favorite thing about this book is that it abandons the characters and conflict from the first installment, in favor of a vaguely Irish training montage in a parallel universe. That’s awesome more books should do that.

The orders of magnitude difference in stakes being treated as exactly the same is killing me. Like “it’s, politically speaking, very important that I win this horse race against my classmate” vs “I’m a farmer now :)” vs “I need to incite mass murder to prevent the apocalypse.” Only one of these things is actually important and it’s the one I’m bored to death by…

Let’s all write revenge fantasies about people we went to high school with!!! Let’s make them poor ugly single losers with no friends!!!

Multiple POV my old enemy returns

We should all write revenge fantasies about people we went to high school with

Reheating Murakami’s nachos

Randomly dropping that one of your main characters has a sister and a mom on page 489… yeah sure ok why not

I’ve been like “wow it’s been so hard for me to have the energy to read since I started school” but actually maybe I just hated that awful book I was forcing on myself

I keep expecting Hadrian to realize he’s being kind of cruel to Crispin and it just never comes

Someone’s definitely read Dune!

Been illiterate for the last week but I’m locking back in now

“To the Federation, to the wipe out an entire race overnight was not an atrocity at all” suffers from a similar issue of you’ve insisted repeatedly that Nikan was complicit in the destruction of Speer

“They did not think of the Nikara as human” might be a viable line if someone had not said, less than 10 pages prior, that they did not regard the Mugenese as human