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This book is copaganda. I'm disappointed, as I was thoroughly enjoying this book. But for the author to have passages regarding "far too many" cops being killed just for being cops, particularly during everything that is happening culturally, politically, socially right now...Well, let's just say it's a very LOUD statement.

Every time an author uses sphincter puckering as a description, I die a little inside

Ah, so Janz describing every pair of breasts he writes is just his MO. Got it.

Ah, so Janz is one of THOSE male authors who finds it necessary to make the reader know EXACTLY how he pictures all the female characters. Got it.

This book is whiplashing between "cops are racist" and "but THESE cops are good!" and I'm not sure I understand the point of the latter. Maybe it will become clearer later on?

The movie made you hate Humperdinck. I find myself enjoying his character and hating Westley here.

I know this guy's supposed to be haunted or whatever, but he is horrifically annoying.

"And when he was lying in the ground next to her, her photographs would be thrown in the trash because her face wouldn't mean anything to anyone else."

"Part of our rejection of first-person perspective is also a rejection of the authoritative position that the notion of a canon assumes....Each contributor has told their story about the same underwater city, and each telling has its own specific perspective, the way any two "true stories" about our own world can provide differing, or even incompatible, visions of our reality."

"Our prohibition of the first was, in part, a reaction to the fiercely individualistic authorship presumed in rap lyrics, so in imagining what a Drexciyan utopia might look like, through the lens of clipping.'s linguistic rules, we imagined their culture might affirm collectivity over the individual, and therefore the plural over the singular."

"This little thing in front of us is the tiniest of our kind in this moment. One day it will be full-grown. One day it will take over where we've left off."

"He was so beautiful that it seemed certain he was arrogant or insensitive or stupid."

"This little thing in front of us is the tiniest of our kind in this moment. One day it will be full-grown. One day it will take over where we've left off."

"You are stardust and light. If they cannot see that, then you have chosen to hide it."

"The moment comes when success doesn't. What then?"

"We can see so much, and yet we choose not to. It is an odd decision."

"If we encircle ourselves with fears, which direction will we turn?"

A friend really wanted me to read this so I am, but I have to say I am struggling with it. Maybe it's just not the right time for me to read a middle grade fantasy

I am liking this book, but the misogyny and the fetishizing of Web and his family is really hitting me in the face

Example of the misogyny: "She looks like a page from a coloring book that's been scribbled all over, crumpled up, and thrown in a corner trash can."
This isn't the first description like this. Oh, and he's called a woman a whore. So there's that.

I am liking this book, but the misogyny and the fetishizing of Web and his family is really hitting me in the face

Still unsure how I feel about this one. I enjoy the premise, and the way it's written it is obviously commenting on real world situations, but something is lacking for me but I'm not sure what.

"It talked about irreconcilable life-forms. Two worlds whose compounds were entirely foreign might cause damage to one another if they were to cross paths."

Oh, grossssssssss

I can't be the only one who sees how racist this book is, right?

Wtf kind of blatant racist BS 👀