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Girllll she’s going to school in Newcastle love that

Very interesting so far. It’s giving sinister Secret Garden vibes.

I’m actually quite enjoying this so far. It’s really interesting, and I appreciate Nicola Griffith leaning into the welsh version of the Arthurian myths.

‘Lord they call you. But dos a lord beat an unarmed woman? Does a lord threaten one who defends that woman?’

Y’all I don’t know if I can do this

Not again

I am actually kind of uncomfortable now, idk if I’m going to finish it

I certainly didn’t expect the sexual slavery angle, and I don’t think I like it

“No matter how much of my life I devoted to your honourable country, no matter how man merits I achieved, I could never dream of attaining this kind of pure blooded nobles’ ribbon - all on account of my birth.”

☕️☕️☕️

Generals who used to work together but one betrayed the other by defecting to the enemy nation? I’m sat.

I keep asking myself why this needed to be a fantasy, because the fantasy element feels so barely there.

I’m a little underwhelmed I won’t lie.

I’ll be interest to see how Cleopatra is ultimately portrayed in this book. Obviously at first she’s young and somewhat naive, but I think authors sometimes try too hard - especially in historical fiction - to make their protagonists likeable/reasonable.

I finding some of this a little absurd but I wonder if that’s because i inherently find the ides of monarchy absurd

The real evil: landlords (+ capitalism)

‘It’s hardly our first witch trial. You must know the script by now.’

This book has so many little one-liners that make me giggle

I love toxic yaoi

‘Surely there is room for one more sodomite in here.’

I’m CRYING

‘You are a terrible man, Sebastian Grave…Whatever miracles you work, whatever good you wring from your misdeeds, you remain always the same loveless viper, consumed by your own self-regard.’

‘I know everything you loved about him Sebastian. I loved him with you.’

I kind of picture Sebastian carrying himself in the manner of Gale from Baldur’s Gate 3.