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"Remember then that it was love" +
"I'll have no wings that take me away from you"
Criminally underdiscussed line, but this whole exchange is kind of foundational

"They said a child had died in the attic."
Ok immediately reminiscent of claudias haunting presence in qotd, but this is only bc im claudiapilled
Armands attitude towards the story of the dead girl kind of a thesis statement on how he tells his own story like ok she really laid it all out in ch1
Scalping someone and 5 minutes later talking ab how much he loves lace my kind and gentle son ❤️

gulp

can she write ab the nightmare dynamics between the vivacia crew + paragon and althea forever please thank you xx

Devastating lack of graphic amputation scenes in this one

170 pages left I can do this !!!!!!!!!

Background character named armand it's not even funny

It's just like my life 😭 in a way

And I can't help her ☹️

Incapable of succinctly explaining how tailor-made kennit and paragons whole deal is for me

Most interesting aspects of this are given so little time to breathe!! Everything compelling buried under pages and pages of all 3 protagonists going through the exact same thing over and over and

I'm too used to anne rice's prose for this to feel anything but bland in comparison, the amount of negative reviews I saw calling this overly flowery?? like is the only other book you've read the phone book..? 😭