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"Restraining orders aren't worth the paper they're written on," I retorted, my anger nudging me closer to the limits of self-control. Not a year went by that I didn't autopsy half a dozen brutalized women whose husbands or boyfriends had been slapped with restraining orders."

"Good God," I muttered. "Someone threatens your life and it takes a damn act of Congress to get anyone to take it seriously."

"And that night, as I had watched her cry, I didn’t understand.
We had won, the Strategasi had said. Weren’t we supposed to be happy?
I was too young to know the truth then. That victory meant another’s defeat, and sometimes our own defeat. That winning meant sacrifices, and sometimes ones that even our own people were not willing to make. That in war, someone always paid."

"A violent death is a public event, and it was this facet of my profession that so rudely grated against my sensibilities. I did what I could to preserve the dignity of the victims. But there was little I could do after the person became a case number, a piece of evidence passed from hand to hand. Privacy is destroyed as completely as life."

the jumping around from descriptions of mundane work in the park to the violence is quite jarring and I'm honestly scared for what's coming next😬

the world building is crazy intricate

it's a bit all over the place, but still very easy to follow

dnf at 14%

I never really had an interest in Andrea as a character, but since I'm a completionist when it comes to Ilona, I thought I'd give this a try. well, I tried and I honestly have no desire to continue. Raphael is a little weirdo who's doing weirdo stuff and I don't wanna ruin his image in my head so goodbye to this👋

i've read a good chunk of this book and i'm still not really connecting with any of the characters🫣

zaddy🙏🙇

dnf

I don't think I have the strength to read this kind of abuse currently

"Pity the fish confined to its pond.
It cannot play in the grass. It will never feel the breeze.
How can we claim to have suffered enough?
Pity the fish. It will never swim among trees."

my comfort read🥹🙏

"I awoke with a startlingly foul odor in my nostrils. It required little imagination to deduce the source. I opened my eyes to find Mr. Stoker turned on his side away from me, his feet resting on my pillow, a scant inch from my face."

lovely🫠

i love people who walk around alone in the forest at night when there's an active killer😊

why is literally everyone a cheater in here??

ah the classic "both brothers fall in love with the heroine" trope. and of course she doesn't even notice that one of them is in love with her, even though she's a witchy mastermind🫠

idk im just not enjoying the main character🫣

i really am not enjoying the development in the main leads relationship, which was previously a father-daughter one and now there's sexual tension??

"I feel we needn't bother looking at faces to find this man, Din! Just keep an eye out for the fellow with testicles large enough to cause back deformities, and we shall have our culprit!"

well said Ana

this book is so goofy

"She’d always been rather proud of her hair, having grown it herself, as it were."

"Kaže se kako je prazan život smrtnika bez Božje ljubavi. Da pokornost Njemu ublažava bol rana uzrokovanih samoćom, jer u služenju Bogu pronalazimo savršenu ljubav i postajemo cijeli.

Ali ako je Bog Otac, Sin i Duh Sveti, ako se Trojstvo sastoji od trojice u jednome, onda Bog o samoći ne zna ništa."

kinda goofy and the story is all over the place, but the humor is hitting it for me

"A robot wrapped in human DNA with daddy issues."

"The Lord’s Prayer.
The captain died trying to steer me into the sun while playing a religious chant on repeat.
Excellent."

"Goblin Engineer. Level 3.
Engineers. The incels of the goblin world. They have a hard time finding a date, which makes them extra angry. If there are any females in your party, they will attack them first."

"“The future—she was looking forward to it very much.”

—AUNT OF ONE OF THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY VICTIMS, 1978"

"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world…

Ephesians 6:12"