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Okay I know Jon is a side character and will probably disappear in a few pages but I love him

Fuck Reese for portraying herself as the victim of her breakup with A.
It's very much in character but still

Loving it so far
It is a little "political discourse disguised as a novel" (like, no-one really talks the way thw characters do, right?!), but a lot less than I feared. I went into it for educucational purposes but quickly decided I'd check out more of the author's books because it's a really good novel first with a lot of educational political discourse second.

I forgot how much fun it is to read about a character who behaves in a super off-putting and self-sabotaging manner when that behaviour actually makes sense

This is so much more fun than expected

This is so bleak

Too much exposition, but a competent main character who doesn't (yet?) back herself into a corner by giving too little or misleading information to others, which is a relief after reading "All Hail Chaos". I'm intrigued but not hooked yet...

"I have not been having a good time, I am not in a good mood, and I do want to kill somebody about it."

I'm having a great time already

I almost started crying on the bus with loads of people around. What is this book doing to me

Tbh in part it could also be my hangover

"Hey," he said. "I just got an achievement for storing a bucket of vomit."

Made me lol almost as much as the surprisingly sensible question "Did you just rip your dick off and throw it at me?"

Thanks for that because there's so much sad studd going on in these books at the same time

What is Gregory doing? He is putting the documents into a stack. On what principle is he doing it? He can't read them, they're the wrong way up. He's not filing them by subject. Is he filing them by date? For God's sake, what is he doing?

Love the writing style. I can almost feel Cromwell's pulse rise

Love the writing style so far.
I'm glad I was warned that "he" basically always refers to Cromwell, otherwise I'd have been much more confused. It's still confusing though but I'm willing to go with it if the rest of the writing stays so compelling

Heard so many good things that I'm very curious...
The moneylender business side is a bit ridiculous and I hope it'll be irrelevant later
The rest is promising

"I took vows."

Ok Sarah Reese Brennan can do whatever she wants now. I love her

Okay I don't think I will ever read a better coming out as bi scene than this :D

"What's a girl like you doing in a narrative dead end like this?" she asked L.

This is so obnoxiously meta I should probably be annoyes but I'm still loving it

"Everyone watched in aristocratic agony of social embarrassment as a knight fought a chained unicorn."

Love it

"Rae sagged. 'Ah. You're a sociopath. My bad.'"

This is so much fun <3

I expected the worst when reading the first few pages - the narrator's conversation with her sister was just so clumsily written - but after that it got really good and, most importantly, fun! Fingers crossed the plot will be good - the play on tropes and cliches is already top-notch!

"And while Victor was not - not by a very long measure - one of the most impressively diseased specimens I had encountered, he was certainly the most pitiable [...] because of the thoroughness of the infections. [...] Shapiro and I spent a few pleasant afternoons examining him, naming the diseases we could and arguing over the ones we could not."
Norton writing about one of his twenty-odd adopted kids, p. 390f.

Okay that's disgusting

Still loving it. The narrator is so oblivious of how sociopathic he is. And I wonder whether he's aware he's very clearly gay.
I would love to get a glimpse into the other characters' heads just to know how they see the narrator, but trust the author to stick to the setup she went with so I guess I'll never know

"Travelers heading west would stop in Peet for [some food] before reembarking. The townspeople thrived from these impermanent relationships, which were in their own way pure: the exchange of money for goods, a pleasant farewell, the assurance that neither party would see each other again. After all, what are most relationships in life but exactly this, though stretched flabbily over years and generations?"

Ouch

Ok, so the narrative framework here is that this is a former professor's autobiography, edited and prefaced by a character who couldn't care less whether the professor is a pedophile or not because he's such a brilliant academic. Cool cool cool

"Great. I'm glad we could chat so I could persuade you to be _more_ stubborn. I see that your thoughts and feelings are evolving on this topic - and because you're you, they're going in the absolute wrong direction."

Aw. The book drags a little but there are many character interactions that are absolutely top notch

On an unrelated note: I still adore Adolin and want to ruffle his hair and tell him he's doing well

The whole Shallan thing has been going on for too long and is ridiculous, especially because people just go along with it? I hope that'll be resolved asap

"Dalinar Kholin still stood before the gap. Maybe... maybe he could help?"

Yes I'm sure he has nothing better to do right this moment.

This is a hell of a showdown. Was a little bored for a bit but this is epic

Aww Adolin is such a cutie

Reading about Dalinar as a young man after getting to know his older self for two books hits hard, holy shit

These books are structured so satisfyingly... Reading about young Dalinar has so much more impact in the order Sanderson went for. Same goes for reading about the Assassin in White's skills before Kaladin starts doing weird shit. Or reading about Kaladin's past in the order Sanderson went for. Just so good

Muahaha
Nice move

I love how Sanderson sets up character interactions that could be so good and beneficial for everyone if only they shared what they know or can do... but of course they don't because they don't know what the readers know