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it's time for a silly one

Lowkey too many twists at once, could've found out some of this info earlier.

I haven't updated my progress at all because it's been slow. Frankly this book has been pissing me off

Fascinating that I've now picked up two books with the exact same plot and premise but this one is done so much better! what a concept!

Something doesn't sit right with me that our main character - who is racist, misogynist, a genocide apologist, a "white savior" to Thomil's "noble savage", and weaponizes religion to justify said genocide and discrimination, albeit brainwashed and misguided - is having a massive mental breakdown a la white woman tears to the point they're considering a lobotomy.

Not an ethnicity being named the Kaldorei. Might not be the right spelling because I'm listening on audio. I know what you are M.L. Wang. A WoW player

Sciona just said she wishes she could be a "soft and pious woman" when her religion and founding prinicples are challenged yet she's spent up until now trying to be a feminist girlboss.

I would say "close enough, welcome back Babel" except this is a very poor derivative and instead just perpetuates everything bad Babel was commenting on. Like it's actually kind of sad and I'm uncomfortable.

Sciona is deeply racist and problematic and I don't think at any point I can root for her ever.

6 star read incoming

if I read this in 2022 I'd be sobbing but I'm reading this in 2026 so now I'm a mix of angry and feeling like it was always a waste

I didn't do the required reading and I fear it's showing

I want to kill Sabine myself I hate her so much

alice I fear you are the least interesting of the vampire lesbians I've been presented with and if you were my friend I'd want to put you inside a snowglobe and shake you

I AM SO FUCKING BORED

Not Sazed and Kelseir talking about how smart Vin is "despite her circumstances" Kelseir said "a lot of street children are clever"... ew

Kelseir, on Vin's new haircut that is supposed to make her more "ladylike," and this is a direct quote -- "The haircut really was good. However, his compliments had an ulterior motive. He suspected that Vin had spent far too much of her life being told she was worthless. Perhaps if she had a bit more self-confidence, she wouldn't try to hide so much." SHE IS 16 YEARS OLD AHHHHHHHHHHHH

Kelseir is an insufferable know-it-all acting as the author's self-insert that is talking AT us instead of WITH us and it is grating on my nerves. 25% and nothing has happened.

does this feel like six of crows or does six of crows feel like this

before anybody gets worried for my mental health, I am reading this for book club and did not pick this myself. I infact, voted against this

6 star read incoming

olivie blake get behind me, I'll defend you until my dying breath