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Graceish ✨ is on page 258 of 400 of Red Rising (Red Rising, #1)
REALLY?! Again?! Darrow is an idiot, and you can’t convince me otherwise.
Dec 24, 2025 01:23PM Add a comment
Red Rising (Red Rising, #1)

Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 242 of 400 of Red Rising (Red Rising, #1)
The use of both metric and imperial measurements are throwing me off. Character 2 is “over seven feet tall” and character 2 can jump “three meters”, so can easily clear him.

I understand 7’ and I understand 3m. But it’s jarring for me to go between them Willy-nilly. Is this common?! Have I just never noticed before?!
Dec 24, 2025 11:27AM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 205 of 400 of Red Rising (Red Rising, #1)
[Mud on my face. My golden hair wild. I look a terror.
"Are you June?" I growl.
"N-no... why?"
"Can you cook?"]

I laughed out loud. This was a great scene, tbf.
Dec 23, 2025 01:01PM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 192 of 400 of Red Rising (Red Rising, #1)
The proctors allowing sexual violence is something else.
Dec 22, 2025 10:17AM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 169 of 400 of Red Rising (Red Rising, #1)
How are they using a compass on Mars?! Did they create a more stable magnetosphere?
Dec 18, 2025 03:22PM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 115 of 400 of Red Rising (Red Rising, #1)
[I missed one question. Just one. Out of hundreds.]

This is so absurd as to be stupid. So they have managed to find the one genius to turn into an absolutely absurd “Gold”?! None of this is believable to me. This reads more and more like YA, where everything just falls into place without demonstrable, reasonable actions. This is why I can’t with SciFi. At least fantasy admits it’s all nonsense at the get go.
Dec 12, 2025 12:49PM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨ is on page 92 of 400 of Red Rising (Red Rising, #1)
[Before I sleep, I drink a tonic laden with processing enhancers and speed-listen to The Colors, The Iliad, Ulysses, Metamorphosis, the Theban plays, The Draconic Labels, Anahasis, and restricted works like The Count of Monte Cristo, Lord of the Flies, Lady Casterly's Penance, 1984, and The Great Gatsby. I wake knowing three thousand years of literature and legal code and history.]

Oh, please. 🙄
Dec 11, 2025 01:14PM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 88 of 400 of Red Rising (Red Rising, #1)
I’m struggling to accept all of this science. It just feels… unconvincing.
Dec 10, 2025 01:50PM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 75 of 400 of Red Rising (Red Rising, #1)
Curious that Darrow knows that automobile exhaust smells like.
Dec 09, 2025 01:15PM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 72 of 400 of Red Rising (Red Rising, #1)
[The men are freakishly muscular and tall. Their arms and chests bulge with artificial strength, and they flaunt their muscle like girls showing off new toys.]

Like girls showing off new toys? Why girls specifically? I genuinely don’t understand this simile.
Dec 06, 2025 11:45AM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 40 of 400 of Red Rising (Red Rising, #1)
And another mention of the inhabitability, and danger of eating anything that did grow on earth. I totally get that the Reds aren’t educated, but simple logic would have them guessing all of what they’d been told about earth and mars.
Dec 03, 2025 02:36PM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 31 of 400 of Red Rising (Red Rising, #1)
[All I possess is my family and myself. ... We didn't spend the money to send the pioneers here. Without them, we'd be on the dying Earth like the rest of humanity.]

If I were him, I would question how it is that Earth humans are able to produce and deliver the food for the terraformers of Mars, but are in constant war and dying “like the rest of” Earth humans. So who is growing the food on earth?
Dec 03, 2025 01:49PM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 530 of 541 of Katabasis
I *literally* exclaimed and threw my book on the counter. HOLY. SHIT.
Nov 30, 2025 12:34PM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 460 of 541 of Katabasis
How did she start the fire?
Nov 29, 2025 12:15PM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 457 of 541 of Katabasis
I am *sick* and tired of fantasy books having something terrible happen to a cat, domestic, wild, or otherwise. What is this trend?!
Nov 28, 2025 11:53AM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 412 of 541 of Katabasis
I am SUPER confused by the time of this book. So many indicators put Alice in postgraduate work in the mid 80s, but here it’s saying Alice read Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style in grade school. That book was published in 1999.
Nov 26, 2025 11:18AM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 401 of 541 of Katabasis
[“…They say to write until you've done your best work, and when you've done your best work, the ships will come to bring you across the Lethe."
"What's the point of them?"
"Entertainment, I'm sure. I certainly enjoy reading others' drafts. I came upon a whole stack subtitled My Lolita the other day. Now, that one was really fun!"]

The way this made me grimace.
Nov 26, 2025 10:31AM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 400 of 541 of Katabasis
[She tried to place him at least geographically or temporally, because then she could at least rack her memory for mention of any horrendous crimes, say, at Yale in the sixties, but Gradus had been so long in the underworld that he made no references to place himself.]

Not so! She said she likes the Beatles and Bach, and he called her pretentious, which indicated he must know of both. So latest death could be 1964?
Nov 26, 2025 10:27AM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 382 of 541 of Katabasis
While I am adoring this book, I wish we got just a bit more about the courts. For example, I’m unsure what the punishment/test is in Violence. We didn’t even see a Shade. I want a bit more of the Underworld filled out, in the same way that the magic systems in this book are SO thorough.
Nov 25, 2025 01:41PM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 380 of 541 of Katabasis
Well, Babel made me cry, who why shouldn’t Katabasis, too? 😭
Nov 25, 2025 01:32PM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 362 of 541 of Katabasis
Not to be pedantic or anything, but is he using a pen or a pencil? Are they interchangeable in England?
Nov 25, 2025 12:54PM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 332 of 541 of Katabasis
[Even the plant turned its face toward the sun. Even the tiniest ant sought food; the brainless worm sought soil. It was all so easy for living creatures—all except people, except people like her, who had a knack for seeking only that which made them miserable.]

Everyone should read Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers.
Nov 24, 2025 11:03AM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 319 of 541 of Katabasis
Alice really is the worst. Good on Helen for laying it straight.
Nov 24, 2025 10:14AM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 297 of 541 of Katabasis
I knew Escher had to play some part in this story! With that cover?!

This book is 🤌
Nov 24, 2025 09:11AM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 294 of 541 of Katabasis
[… beyond which all she could see was thunder.]

Thunder?! Surely this is meant to say lightning…
Nov 23, 2025 09:42AM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 279 of 541 of Katabasis
So, the question now is: do actions in Hell affect your son count?! Because this is about to be bad.
Nov 22, 2025 02:27PM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 270 of 541 of Katabasis
["Eternal recurrence," Peter murmured. "Everything that has happened will happen again."
“Don't quote Nietzsche on my boat," said Elspeth.
"Mea culpa."]

I love this book so much. Kuang is a genius.
Nov 22, 2025 01:28PM Add a comment
Katabasis

Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 210 of 541 of Katabasis
Is Alice Chinese? Did I miss that detail before? Or is she a white American who speaks Chinese?! Did I project whiteness onto her this entire time?! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
Nov 19, 2025 02:50PM Add a comment
Katabasis

Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 203 of 541 of Katabasis
[My name is Alice Law—
IF ALICE-?
I am a postgraduate at Cambridge—
IF ALICE-?
I study analytic magick—
If ALICE?]

Why is the last one not IF like the prior two?
Nov 18, 2025 10:22AM Add a comment
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Graceish ✨
Graceish ✨ is on page 201 of 541 of Katabasis
I just wrote out the logic to the past two pages of this puzzle, and I am CONVINCED that Alice either purposefully or accidentally got the Weaver Girl to tell her what Peter would choose.
Nov 18, 2025 09:32AM Add a comment
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