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"Stand down or we will engage."
ART-drone said, "I wouldn't recommend it. I lack a sense of proportional response. I don't advise engaging with me on any level."

Emilia Fox is an amazing narrator for this audiobook, but why does she pronounce forehead as FOR-ed. I've noticed a lot of posh English people do this but not all of them, it's such a weird accent quirk.

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AS SOON AS IT WAS CONFIRMED ZUBBY WAS IGBO I WAS LIKE OH FUCKKKKK - predicting he is Kalu and Amara's son and Eniiyi is Kalu and Ebun's daughter 😬 I hope I'm wrong though

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Predicting that Golden Boy is Eniiyi's father.

"That was when I learned that it's customary in the Order to let members leave without trying to retain them. My mother says they must be allowed to go because they always come back, they come crying back, all beaten down, because the Darkness is a god with claws that sniffs you out, the Darkness catches up with you, the Darkness will let you play, the way a cat lets go of its prey just to see how far it can get."

"He went home that night, when the pleas and the shrieks and the gunshots became unbearable, when he was surrounded by the echos of murdered people with blindfolded eyes, feet bound, some with their faces or whole bodies swollen, others who dragged themselves along in burlap sacks, a legion he could not make disappear. They sought him out. They knew he could see them and recognise them."

"If I'd been born a mainlander, and grown up speaking Mandarin, I could be a Chinese teacher. If I'd been born a British person, I could be an English teacher. Not being able to speak Mandarin or English in Hong Kong is duh-deficiency, another kind of dis-dis-disability."

This book is devastatingly sad and the main character honestly just cruel but I am hooked

"There is nothing in this world so pathetic, so moronic, so meaningless as dieting."

"... the matriarch reigns supreme in these w*g houses. She may be kicked and beaten, exploited and hated, but it is she who maintains a rigid grip on the traditions that blighted her life and will blight the lives of her children."

"This was probably the most horrifying thing Eric could have said to him, not because it ended his life, but because it didn't. He knew then the secret for which he had sacrificed his own happiness and the happiness of another person had been trivial all along, and worthless."

This book completely validates my belief that you should always invest in decent camping stuff and activewear while/if you can

I usually struggle with non fiction but it feels like this was written specifically to appeal to me

I want to jump into this book and push Queenie's boyfriend in front of a bus.

Switching to the audiobook so I can get through it. I loved the first one so really want to know what happens, but this book is just bad so far.