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I...Was not ready for this twist

Again and again, the tension and layered relationship between Esek and Chono is absolutely magnetic... Masterclass on how to write dynamics that are as compelling as a romance but don't have an ounce of it for miles. This isn't shipping it's just darn good drama

Finally a dark academia that isn't escapism galore but actually gets it. Extra plus points already for focusing on someone who's got a good couple of decades of experience under the belt and not some uwu fresh starter into (academic)life 😭🙏🏼

"Oh Chono" not Esek Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss Nightfoot making the poppy war cast have a run for their money

This **DEBUT** has no business being this FUN. I heard it was good but oh god the punch it has. SFF is BACKK

Psychotic abuser has entered the chat 😭 OH RIN

"Nikara carved jade figurines will no doubt attract customers looking for novel interior decoration (see Box 3 attached)" Ah the smell of colonial extraction of resources and wealth into the homeland for growth of capital 🥰☕Capitalism is an old arm of coloniality, RFK knows this as any anti-colonial writer out there would

Katniss's dystopia traumatised psyche walked so that Rin's wartorn psyche could run like girl HOW DO U MANAGE TO GET EVERYONE TO WALK ALL OVER U AND NEVER SEE IT COMING MY POOR MURDERBABY 😭😭😭😩

"The aunties call him "precious" in Mohani, a word commotion the value of paint to an artist or the Lay to a monk. Indispensable. Sacred. Iterate Fractal used it to describe variation, and now the locals append it to men who wear their hair like Sunai" oh candon KNOWS how japanese WORKS OH MY GOD that's lexical history right there

In this day and age of tropeification why didn't anyone say this is Jane Austen meets Loreena McKennit's The Bonny Swans??? But ig that'd be too much of niche folk culture to ask of booktok 😭😭🤌🏼

"Some days I'm pretty sure my impulse control never fully grew in. Do you know how exhausting it is to be stuck in your early twenties?" The irony is that now this hits like a fact 😭😭 So Archive was written by and for disembodied bodies damn I get it now

Love how we're on book 3 and Runin is STILL being taught lessons because she's insufferably convinced she knows everything. RFK never change 😭🙏🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼