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“You make one tribe out of twelve…by taking slaves.”
CHILLS

This was forced natural selection.”

This is truly horrible… they say the Gold is above all, but even the Gold will leave no space for “weaker” younglings like Julian and let them be culled like defects.

This why the cover…

I’m going crazy for sure

“It’s like a dream when she tells me she loves me. Her hand lingers on mine, but there’s something strange to her eyes. They should only whip her, yet her words are final, her eyes sad but not afraid… ‘break the chains, my love.’ “

“This will mean the lash, but it will just be the lash because I did not pick up the thumper, because I did not listen to Eo.”

Oh this will be more than the lash and not listening to Eo is going to be a decision you regret for life…

“Red in our garden,” it oozes, “Ain’t that a thing.”

I GAGGED

“I live for you.” “Then you must live for more.”
I like Eo

Something really bad is going to happen to Eo mark my words

What have I done to myself thinking enemies are becoming lovers

Well uni reverse HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

“It is as Heisenberg said, dear Alice. That modern physics has decided in favor of Plato, that the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense, but forms, and ideas. And when you have complete mastery of these ideas, when you can hold them in your palm and twist and tease them at will-then you will have stepped closer to God.“

SCREAMING AT PAGE 167

“Academic lineage mattered so much in the right circles. And back then all she wanted, with every fiber of her being, was for people to remember she was his echo.”p139

I actually laughed a lot during first few chapters… RFKuang with humor?? I’m so scared 😱

“The weak and poor endure in the Hierarchy because the alternatives are harder, not because there are none. They know the system is wrong, but they choose not to think or speak up or act because they ultimately hope that in their silence, they will gain…. The decision may have been made by the few, Diago, but it's the Will of the many that killed your family."

Suppression from biased higher ups, classic.

Sometimes I felt everything would be simpler if people just tell Vis what they’re hiding right away, but that would be so much less of a fun story. But the character building for everyone is amazingly visceral and I care so much about Vi’s - and finally onto the academy!!

Academia in fantasy books will always be my baby…🥹

“It was a beautiful thought - for a different world that was just, and kind, and not about to collapse.”

Of course the story gets good suddenly when it’s 2am in the morning… I have so many thoughts

Dreadful end of hunger game…what’s next?

Lenore, nevermore

Snow, evil in the flesh.

“These violent delight have violent ends”