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🤯 …the Married Women’s Property Act was amended in 1882, though women in Britain were not allowed to vote until 1918. The Property Act still exists in British legislation; it was last amended in 2016 to allow a widow in her own right to enforce her late husband’s life assurance policy.

…the trouble with words was that putting them onto paper was a bloody slog even at the height of inspiration.

So many questions, so few answers 🥵

Brutal medieval times…

On récolte ce que on sème — you reap what you sow

Couldn’t find confirmation that Isabella of France suffered incest. The author’s decision to include it in the plot is 🤮 She was twelve! 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

When I read books about medieval times, all my troubles seem so inconsequential 😅

Oh my stars, this plot is bonkers 🤣

🤯 The stegodyphus spider, for example. When her young are old enough, she rolls over and lets the babies climb on her and eat her.

I really really REALLY want the good guys to win.

So many characters that it’s hard to keep track

American politics 🤮

What are the rules of the genre? Will there be a HEA? Is it a retelling of David and Goliath?

Цікавий підхід: більшу частину історії займають інші персонажі, які ніяк не повʼязані із нашим головним героєм. І на останні ~15% зʼявляється Річер. Його реакція та дії дають глибокий інсайт у те, що він за людина.

I am hooked. Superb storytelling.

A great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.

Читається доволі легко. З рівнем В1 можна зрозуміти ~70% без словника.

The first novella was really good

Оповідання дивні, але затягують

Squirm. So weird…

Oddbody. So, the ghost is a metaphor, right?

So much blood and killing

I have a lot of idiosyncrasies that can take me out of the story: One of them is when a word used in the book does not yet exist in the period of time the said book describes. In this case it’s “galumphing”. The story is set in Regency England (I think it’s either 1821 or 1822, because the previous book was in 1821). Yet Lewis Carrol coined this word in 1871.

I hope one of the next books covers Olivia and Peregrine’s story 😅

I feel time flows differently for gods, goddesses and other deities. Or maybe I’m just confused by this story.

This instalment is a bit boring

Ali, not again! Kuznetsov? Really? You could have picked any other foreign name, so why russian? 🤬

Мені треба заборонити читати такі книжки, бо тепер хочеться ще обʼєктивів нових 🫠