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This protagonist is a bigger idiot than Fitz. Dumbass.

Oh no I fear I am becoming invested

Still objectively bad but I am figuring out why it has the cult following. And I don't even want to consider how much fanfic there probably is.

This is like....objectively not a good book. And yet I can't bring myself to put it down?

I caved

Listen, it's bad enough that the man's a genocidal maniac. But the way he talks to his kid? I hope this man dies a fiery fictional death

I also love being in Philip's psychotic little head. Genuinely don't know if I want to see him get his shit together and realize his dad is insane, or see him devolve further into his own craziness. Honestly, it's a win/win

I'm guessing it's probably polarizing and not everyone would agree, but as an Oathbringer girlie, I am loving the switch-up from 4 main POVs to approximately 200

I think my favorite thing about a long series like this is that you really get to *know* the characters in a way you just can't with a stand alone, or even a trilogy. You spend some 100-200 hours with the same people and they start to feel real. So when you crack open a new volume it feels like the familiarity of coming home.

....or maybe I'm just crazy. Either way.

Oh no....two people with fundamentally clashing personalities and life philosophies who dont trust each other are gonna have to team up against their common enemy....oh nooooooo

Utterly bizarre choice to have the male narrator read for Peter's lines for one chapter, where for the entire rest of the book he didn't???

This is at least partly the plot of Legally Blonde

"Magicians do really well in consulting" im cackling is this just gonna be 18 hours of shade at academia

"This was the key to graduate school. You could do anything if you were delusional." RF Kuang I love you more academics should write fantasy books

Well, gotta give the book credit. It hit the ground running. No dilly dallying around with rising action or background. End of Chapter 1 and we're already in hell

Well, gotta give the book credit. It hit the ground running. No dilly dallying around with rising action or background. End of Chapter 1 and we're already in hell

Man there is so much plot happening. Hell yeah. Don't get me wrong, vibe books have their place. But give me the big beefy interconnected multi-POV mess.

I have a Next to Normal suspicion, and no I will not be elaborating. Spoilers and all that. But IYKYK

Oh my god this boy is so oblivious I want to shake him.

But fr, surprisingly nuanced and nice examination of asexual identify in the middle of horror? Kinda love it

Is asexual horror a genre that exists??? Can I have more of it???

Oh, its a highstorm!

Space western WITH AN ID EPI INVESTIGATION???

Gimme all the space outbreaks. Hell yeah

Space western space western space western space western space we-

"...I'll bring the guy most likely to get in a bar fight."

FUN FACT when I was asking for recommendations, which eventually resulted in a ton of people saying The Expanse, one of the things I asked for was "found family where the question isn't will they get in a bar fight, but when."

I told myself I was gonna take a break after the 3rd book so it didn't get stale, and yet here we are

The real reason Avasarala isn't in this book is that she'd solve the entire conflict in 5 minutes and then we wouldn't have a plot

"Do you want an alien civilization getting its ideas about humanity from Jim Holden?"

I love how much everyone else is these books is just....so done with Holden

"Were going to Io to blow up some more ships and maybe stop the apocalypse. Do you want to come?" I have a new favorite character

"I thought we were finding the kid"
"Doc wasn't clear on that."
"Oh....we're finding your kid."

Oh yeah. That's the good stuff.

You know. I see now why this was recommended to me. Sometimes you read a book and you're just like....oh yes this has all the things I like in my fiction. Delightful. Please, give me more of this content.