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loving the narrative voice, but finding it a little hard to parse where this is all going!!

Addie you are so boring. Henry you’re more boring and I don’t forgive you.

Crawling back, I’ll finish this book this weekend and that’s an oath.

I understand this is aside from the point but MIRI. IT IS TIME TO TAKE YOUR WIFE TO THE ER.

gettin STRESSED!!!!!!!!!! Had to stop reading at the climax because I am stressed out for everyone in this place!!!!!! PLEASE everyone let’s all calm down calllllllllm

I’ll finish this up tomorrow. For tonight, I’m gonna NOT subject myself to the undoubtedly brutal cliffhanger that is inevitably coming

I’m really enjoying the tone of this so far, it’s quite fun

I’m putting this one down for now. The perspective is not for me, I don’t think. Great concept tho and I wanna love it!! I just can’t get into it.

Phalue oh Phalue MY CRUSH

I’m really genuinely enjoying ‘Emperor’ as I enjoyed ‘Daughter’ but sometimes, despite the multiple islands, despite the politics of the governors and the Shardless Few, this world feels oddly simple to me. This is just minor, I think, in the grand scheme of things, because overall I’m having a lot of fun reading

okay I like this book SO much. I am having such a good time reading. I think about it when I put it down. I FEEL ALIVE.

This, while having very pretty prose, is a little too unstructured and experimental for me. Marney’s POV is fairly exhausting to follow. Right now, I am also wondering what the point of all these scenes is.

this is such a breath of fresh air seriously. a diverse and fun cast of characters. people who LIE, cheat, and steal. WELL CONSTRUCTED SENTENCES. i’m ALIVE.

This premise is totally intriguing buuuuut I find the characterization weaker than I am craving….. find myself missing Fonda Lee, CS Pacat, Tamsyn Muir….

Okay I see cool cool cool cool cool cool cool

This book is whip smart and reads fast but the characters are so much voices for their themes that I honestly think I would rather just read RF Kuang’s academic paper on the same subject lol. Also dark academia and this era might just not be the most interesting thing for me…. This book is super fascinating and I love what RF Kuang has to say and she’s good at saying it, it’s just. Not quite there for me

It’s so so so so so nice to be in the hands of an author who knows exactly what they are doing and why and what they want to say. Makoto Yukimura I would willingly place my life in your hands and trust you entirely with it. I love a work with a THESIS!!!!!!!!! Also askeladd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RF Kuang never pulls her punches !!!

save me from the school framework. save me from evil (tm) professors. save me from nonsensical world politics. save me from ridiculous manufactured angst and long descriptions of xaden’s muscles.

Trying to resist giving this book 5 stars before I even finish it

oh my god.