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why is there a third book in this series. leigh bardugo your biggest hit was your duology there's no need to keep trying to write 3 books in each universe. unfortunately i have not read a single thing by bardugo that trumps six of crows but i will read the third book in this series because i think ill have nightmares about what might happen in it if i don't

i forgot im a coward and a baby and its 1am and there are weird noises coming from my closet

man i do not care about darlington unless he’s a completely different person than he’s been presenting as this whole time i dont want to be in his head or the past let me talk to alex

unfortunately even though this book teeters on the edge of Too Woke (an assortment of queer side characters w a very heterosexual main couple, one of which is a white man) and it gets mental health preachy im having a good time. it is reading better than the first book

beginning to realise how annoyed people must get when i Capitalize Random Words for Emphasis in texts . sorry about that. i think i might one-shot this book; after part 1 the narration and geography become easier to parse. i deeply wish i'd read this before interviewing madeleine thien about the book of records because this is the closest fictional architectural counterpart to the Sea that i've found

love the prose but remain unconvinced that 5 alternating perspectives is viable in a book this short

i fear im the wrong ethnicity and age and research focus to understand literally any of the references in this book musical film alcoholic or otherwise

i don’t know how to express how much dread this book fills me with

the romance btwn chloe and red is the least interesting thing to me but this is a great vehicle for delivering little bits abt living w a disability like i didn’t know ground floor flats are likelier to have accessibility features but that makes sense and the idea of pills chloe has to take to protect her stomach lining from all her Other pills had never crossed my mind either

i’d thought romance might be a fun change of pace a full financial quarter after a breakup but i also now think the entire romance genre may not be for me

what is it w madeline cash and religious fundamentalism i think this is 2/2 times a character of hers has been recruited into isis

this is such a quietly horrifying book to me this is psychological horror

i hope henry dies at the end of this

extremely perfect book to read after the wrong end of the telescope but i think two refugee books in a row from the standpoint of an author who is wracked with uncertainty about the responsibility and allocation of grief is enough for the time being

this book is like bait to me... interesting gimmick / motif (near-extinct snails) to distinguish an otherwise not unusual character, mother-daughter trauma and psychological twinning, a completely unexpected formal twist in part 2, a Political Backdrop

a fifth through this book, nothing has happened, nico is a completely different person, rick and mark have no idea how teenagers talk, entire thing is a trainwreck

have never seen the word 'rime' used so many times

the magic system and its ties to religion are well-developed but the writing feels like incurious telling and i have realised i despise the trope of 'i am a white woman and you are a man of color and therefore we are both outsiders who can bond through that marginalisation' i actually think sciona being courageous and respectable doesnt preclude me from hating her guts

reading this while love is going up in smoke and i feel profoundly alone / defeated but also incredibly flat / detached has been an insane experience. this + bibliophobia (one which compresses & the other which dilutes time) in williamstown, a place where he says i feel both past and present and thats why time feels so syrupy & liquid, was fucking insane

realising smth i dislike adamantly abt rfk's writing is this painful self-consciousness and effort to (1) display rather than share / invite into the knowledge she's acquired (even abt smth as non-pretentious as mountain climbing); (2) address common criticisms through verbal gymnastics and discourse w/o curing the fundamentals (obsession w academic elitism & status disguised as intellectualism)

immediate mild irritation at the unnatural britishification of an american and how much of the way it's written is clear 'pride in having gone to oxbridge And having awareness that academia is sordid'

but if you vow to go through it head empty no thoughts it is so far enjoyable the premise is funny

currently being scolded by tiffany bc so far i dont like it 😭

i dont know enough stem OR history to understand this book as well as i should

first page is great i got too overwhelmed to keep reading i'll need to do this slowly i've been looking forward to this for so long

can italian women ever catch a break

added this to the favorites shelf as soon as i saw the hand-drawn map