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Calling it now it was cornelia and she's been fucking with miss van schyuler's clock. she rose up against the capitalist woman after being stirred to action by ferguson (who is secretly the guy who incites riots)

It took almost half the book for there to be an actual death on the nile

this is just like when ariana grande got with ethan slater who left his wife and newborn baby for her because she's ariana grande

ik this book was written in a different time and all but this line still sent me
"The fat woman in purple was looking radiant... Undoubtedly the fat had certain compensations in life... a zest—a gusto—denied to those of more fashionable contours"

plot feels like an AITA story or I've been watching too much smosh

so it's like homestuck. and steven universe

at the start red identified blue by "patterns of audacity" and risk-taking behaviour but as the book progresses red is established as the more reckless and quick-moving one while blue is slower and deeper in her methods. this pmo

omg icl maybe I'm just a slow reader but this book takes forever to make smth happen

Weirdly enough this is the 2nd historical fantasy novel I've read this year to mention lin zexu and the opium war

I just started and it's already so pretentious "A glass jar of water boils in an MRI machine. In defiance of proverbs, Blue watches it." ts frying me

alr maybe i did tear up a little

sodapop has 1960s undiagnosed adhd

rlly weird reading about characters younger than you but who feel older.......

the emotional arc of this story is so distressing YOUR OLDER BROTHER LOVES YOU :(( must hit different when ur 14

I was gna say I predict that johnny is gna kill one of his friends by accident or smth but I was proven half right

hmm thinking abt whether the plot twist cheapens the book a bit. anyway reading this makes me wna throw up

the fucking lack of pinyin (is this wade giles???) Is actually killing me

why do all the marriages in this book suck

omg can't anyone in this book catch a fucking break

WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT im gna throw up im gna throw up this book is making me vomit

holy daddy issues

it's crazy i think the author purposely added sexual tension between ruby and the reporter. I need at least 1 undeniable confirmation of lesbianism before the book ends like cmon. alternatively her man cld transform into her and they could have crazy yuri sex

I carried this around for a week and not once did a random stranger stop me to say "oh my god are you reading slaughterhouse five by kurt vonnegut? i am in extreme awe of your deep and intellectual literary tastes!" 0/10

I like how there are little details that connect each scene of the "time travel" like someone recalling a memory which made him recall another memory, etc etc

this book reminds me a bit of invisible monsters w the comedic/depressing tone and nonlinear storytelling

forgot to log this when I finished. don't know how I feel abt those poor students having to martyr themselves at the end.

robin is so bohemian rhapsody (mama just killed a man put a gun against his head pulled my trigger now he's dead mama life had just begun but now I've gone and thrown it all away)

genuinely avoiding picking this up bc im dreading what comes next. so anxiety inducing

GRIFFIN NOOOOOOO

singapore got one mention in the book about the british colonial empire in the 1800s. we cheer

I NEED to stop skipping pages before reading the one im on WTFFF

have a feeling the original draft included way more implications of ramy/robin but rfk didn't want readers to over focus on the gay romance instead of the anticolonical message

ah yes obligatory "friends conspire to cover up a murder" in every dark academia book

everything abt his relationship with his father pains me.... him calling him Father which pissed him off sm right before he died... calling him 爹... griffin come back i need uuuuuu u gotta hear abt ts man

this book feels like rf kuang's thesis statement (the Necessity of Violence). must be nice to not have to cite sources

the canton chapter is v sad. opium war is going to break out isn't it. I vaguely rmb this from my hp symposium project and prisch social studies

- i loved ramy's chapter always a sucker for the charming performer archetype
- still not convinced griffin actl killed evie considering his lack of skill w silverwork
- is griffin like the sole leader of hermes and it's actl much smaller than you'd expect
- finally romantic drama in the fg... i need more pls (is ramy gay??)
- diverse 1820s friend group problems

So what I'm hearing is that being bilingual in this universe gives you superpowers #MAJULAHSINGAPURA

i accidentally flipped near the end and saw Anthony faked his death but expected so he's def with the resistance right.... and probably victoire knows also? my guess is one of the profs also involved maybe craft or playfair

WHY DID GOODREADS CHANGE ITS LOGO HELLO??? WTF IS THAT

- this is already so much better than yellowface. I don't think I've felt this kind of feeling since percy jackson in p3
- in the introduction I can feel rf kuang being actively stressed about historical accuracy. the research done is actually insane
- rip george orwell you would've loved babel

- rachel is titus' biological mom that's why she's covering for him
- she staged a mugging
- matthew either stole Titus from rachel OR he's secretly abusing him or smth