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wow this is gorgeously written and translated

The Chaser - 3 ⭐️

Infect Your Friends and Loved ones - 4 ⭐️

Ooh that final line. Loved. If this is a sign of the quality of the rest of this collection I’m very excited.

court intrigue YIPPEE

I just love rjb’s prose.. “A drain was set in the floor beneath the table, with a pinkish halo of stain on the stone about it: a place often cleaned, I supposed, but never truly clean.”

“Irene blinks, stumbles and reaches for the door handle, moves out into the corridor to find the pendant lamps swinging - an odd, narcotic motion, gold glass casting queasy shadows on the floor. [..] It would barely be discernible to the untrained eye but the house, she knows, has risen just a little, just as it is calibrated to do.”

The imagery in this book is beautiful, I’m putting sticky tabs on every page

my first leigh bardugo 🤭

this is so atmospheric it kind of works that I’m only reading one chapter at a time

“Every newborn screams when they first emerge into this world.” 😨

saving the last 50 pages for tomorrow 🤭

no one’s doing unique worldbuilding like robert jackson bennett

“It loved me. Loved me even if I couldn’t, wouldn’t, didn’t love myself. Loved me even if I hated it. It set its tiny teeth in my soul and braced and held so that I couldn’t crawl any further. [..] It was Smithy.”

I’m going to kill myself