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Can you just vomit ants on her already and be done with this scene??

LURP

These characters are fucking insufferable and this violence serves no purpose. If we don’t get to the cosmic horror in the next 50 pages or less I’m putting the book down.

Little Truck? Is that you??

You ever get character closure SO GOOD you gasp in glee and then have to stop reading?

Okay. THAT scene was worth it. That scene is standalone gold.

But seriously, fuck this kid.

This book is so unfunny it has to tell you when if’s making a joke.

What happened, if it happened: Holocaust or Holocaust-like event
J: Jew/Jewish

My prediction: Kevern and Ailinn are actually Jewish

“It wasn’t that Kevern didn’t have a view on the subject, he didn’t know what the subject was.”

Or, my experience of this book.

Kevern just said 2 j-words and they weren’t crossed out and I don’t buy that he’s changed this much so soon to have stopped doing that. Seriously this is supposed to be literary and you can’t keep up your own tropes? I call bullshit.

(Oh my god he is Armenian lololol this is my full impression of this book apparently)

Vicken Asatryan? He’s Armenian?

YOURE TELLING ME A RUSSIAN STUDENT WHO WANTED TO STUDY PHILOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS DOESNT KNOW WHAT A VERB IN THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD IS???!

I’m fucking done with this book.

“Five hundred and seventy-five people died, most of them children”

A truly outrageous number of children die in fires in this book.

Steamed broccoli and champagne.

“Circus animals ran wild and killed sixty elementary school children” I’m sorry, what??

Her breasts. Really. You know we don’t look at our breasts as we breathe, right? Yeah, they’re there, BUT JUST SAY CHEST AND LEAVE THE GIRL’S BREASTS OUT OF IT.

NO. JUST. NO. STOP.

Well, at least now the diacritic in paprikás is going the right way.

This should be a tragic moment, and I’m trying not to laugh.

I swear if the ship cats die I will burn this book.

Truly, “two teens licking fruit cream off each other while a grown man watches pervertedly in the doorway” wasn’t on my bingo card for this book, but why am I surprised by this point.

Feeling alive again is like having sex.

Yeah, cool, great, thanks.

This half a page reads like actual space opera hard scifi. I might have found the point where the book becomes interesting. (And now waiting to see if I jinxed myself.)

Wtf Satterwaith ass-slapping scene? This book is a walking HR violation.

“‘I see,’ he said, meaning he understood.”

When you mansplain your own writing….

Hot take: Grubb is the actual narrator because his story of the ship ghost includes the omniscient character explanations and miscommunications that clog up the rest of the text.

ExCUSE ME??????

“Why, sex is the single thing most easily come by in this ship.”
Wong has a surprisingly self-aware and meta moment. And then immediately afterward the narrative devolves into the self-absorbed sex-driven “plot.”