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can already tell this is a book best enjoyed in one or two sittings

taking my time to savor it all

this feels like crack

“I feel sometimes it is so difficult to be conscious”

Islington’s pacing is the perfect pacing in my opinion.

okay, so I have a lot of emotions and a lot of feelings. James. We need to debrief asap. Have your people call my people.

my jaw got a an introduction to the floor from the absolute insanity of chapter 5.

Jennifer Lawerence in that clip from the hot ones going “what do you mean” was me during this chapter. I am unwell, and also obsessed. 💅

this book has consumed me - this reminds me the silly goose fun that comes from reading

OKAY talk about a SLOW BURN but we seem to be cooking now. Or the pan is finally warming up so we can put the cooking oil in 👀

I got beef with this Margrave. Imma b*tch slap him. LET ME AT HIM.

I am enraptured by this story. I can’t put it down.

JEMISIN I HAVE QUESTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this book is just weirdly sexual at times, the magic and world building is rooted in these randomly sexual things that I do find quite strange sometimes.

okay, now we are picking up, and i am getting invested more, the dream like magic is so interesting, and unique.

the world building is kinda making my brain hurt a little :(

I love Egyptian-fantasy novels. I love when religious people in power use their influence to harm others. I love a corrupt government. So basically, I should LOVE this book.

My thought here is that I am going to read the other Jemisin books before The Broken Earth trilogy so the bar isn't set too high that I don't enjoy the others.

I was pulled in from the first chapter. This is THE CURE to my Babel hangover. This book had me dragging it around the gym reading it in between sets, and on the treadmill. In 70 pages I have laughed, scoffed, been angered, been sad, and already been socially checked.

HE KISSES HER AND THEN HE SAYS "Can I kneel at the altar?" SIR WHAT. thats the most Hozier thing ive ever read in fiction.

this is a silly goose time and im very here for it

"Only special people were saved. The rest had to fight their own way through."

my girl said "theres a musical scene" and i immediately picked it up.

IM SORRY WHAT!!! the end of book three just actually stunted the ability my brain has to form words.

this book has consumed my brain

okay give me a highlighter and a pen, im about to MARK THIS BAD BOY UP

honestly, im hooked and invested. i find this premise riveting.

honestly, i am really enjoying this so far. it reminds me The Will of The Many a little at the beginning, and anything happening in Oxford has my heart. At first I wasnt a fan of the footnotes but I have grown to really like them!

i dont remember the last time i ingested a story so fast.

i dont know that i am ready for it all to be over....