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Ok, this book is very funny 😂😂😂
Also, love the cat?
And the commentator 😂

OMG, never thought I would read Urdu in a fantasy book!!
It took me a bit to recognise it because of the spelling but I'm actually so happy with such a pleasant surprise!

Mamoriken 😭😭😭😭😭😭

AAAAH X2
I hope what I'm reading is not reaaaal. I'm too stunned and shocked to cry.

"A decade later, a fifteen-year-old Hiroshi would become known as the youngest swordsman ever to master the Whispering Blade. What the world would never know, was that he was the second youngest."

“Put away your katana, son.”

AHHHHHHH (punching the air for the start of Misakis combat).
Also, I read somewhere that this has really great character development.
I hope with all my being that Takeru does a 180° change.

"It was what I had desired in the past: the ability to live as my own person, answering to no one and nothing. And yet the future that had once appeared so enticing now seemed to have lost its luster."

"The truth was, I could not bear to think of my future, as uncertain as it was. If it was wretched, I did not wish to know. And if it was sweet, how much more painful to have it stolen from me?"

"I was not my mother nor my father. I was more than the inheritance they had left me."

"And if I ever write "Tonight the moonlight is strong," I am trying to say that I miss you."

Ok, I was feeling kind of meeh for this book, and Sky's character was too shallow to relate with the attachment Meilin had, but it's actually getting better.
The fight scenes are great.

Daaaaamn, el diálogo de Diana a Catherine es de mis favoritos.

"Porque si ese muchacho fue bueno para la hija de un rey —susurró hiriente—, os aseguro, querida, que también puede ser bueno para vos."

"Hubiera querido pedirle que se metiera en mi piel, que sintiera mi miedo y mi desamparo. Pero mi piel era difícil de habitar."

"Nadie me despidió. Nadie me dio ese abrazo apretado, como de crujir de huesos, que hubiera necesitado. Nadie salió al camino a verme marchar."

"Miraba a las cumbres, al volcán y al cielo, esperando un juicio, pero se me olvidó mirar al único lugar del que verdaderamente podía venir. El lugar del que había venido siempre la desgracia.
El mar"

"—Parece que no hay sitio para mí en el mundo… —reflexioné."

I am: crying 😭
Solo de pensar que Pedro era una persona real y que su vida fue así o incluso peor, me rompe el corazón.
Solo era un niño!!

"Pero no eran tiempos normales. Y yo no era normal. Toqué mi rostro, miré mis brazos y aborrecí mi aspecto. Me hubiera arrancado aquella capa de pelo, uno a uno, por volver a ser uno de ellos…"

Ahora recuerdo por qué le di 4 estrellas y no 5, si la historia me encantó...
El primer 20% está lleno de frivolidad y resume todo a un tema de faldas; describe a los moriscos como brujos, a los berberes como salvajes y a los nativos como gente sin modales ni educación.
Pero no sabría decir si es que lo describe todo con ese aire sensacionalista y "moderno" por estar en línea con la tendencia o porque eso pensanban

"Así fue como aprendí que, a veces, las acciones tienen consecuencias inesperadas, por muy justa que nos parezca nuestra indignación."

DNFing this one for now...

I think about this week at least once a year.
I'm not sure why I gave it 4 stars back then when I literally still vividly remember some scenes, so I was itching to revisit it!

And I still can't believe it's not translated into English!

"Languages aren't just made of words. They are modes of looking at the world. They're the keys to civilisation. And that's knowledge worth killing for."

Why is 32% the point where I go "Oh, nooooo" with this woman? 😭
Now I can't stop till I get till the end.

On a side note, everyone (including themselves) insisting Taryn and Jude are like mirrors from each other – what could have been and what is.
But really, the truest mirror for Jude is Madoc...

What is this magnificent character building?!

WHAT IS GOING OOOOON?!

Ok, wth?!
After seeing this pop up everywhere I looked, I decided to pick it up and... wth?!
I've only read like 2% and I can already glimpse so much depth and complexity?!
I can already tell this one will destroy me 🙂‍↕️😭
I already like Madoc for some reason – I feel like he will be one of those gray characters I'm such a sucker for? 😭

"How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?"

"Yet didn't he have a right to be happy?"

The parabell of being acutely aware of the injustice of the world, our privilege and our part in that system and yet, there is still the desire to be happy and the guilt of feeling so.

"Quot linguas quis callet, tot homines valet."

"He scratched hard several times to make the cross visible – his fingers ached, and the nib was irreversibly ruined – but at last he left his mark."

This sounds like terrible, terrible foreshadowing 🙂‍↕️

"A lie was not a lie if it was never uttered; questions that were never asked did not need answers. They would both remain perfectly content to linger in the liminal, endless space between truth and denial."

"Evangeline spun to the side and slapped him hard across the face."

The way I'm kicking my feet... the SATISFACTION!

"I do understand, and I hope you understand that as long as you treat me like an untrustworthy captive, I will act like one instead of like your wife."

DAAAAMN, I like this Eva.
She's the only one that's making the angst bearable till we have a (hopefully) satisfying conclusion.

I am stresseeeed xD