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Not sure how I'm feeling about the Flower of Eightfold Sorrows; one of the things I liked about Mo Ran was his commitment to not being such a bad guy and it feels like the flower removes a good deal of his responsibility for how his first life turned out. I did enjoy Chu Wannings guilt spiral though.

Maybe this is getting too close to "cozy" fantasy for my taste? Its just starting to grate how everyone gets along (except for the designated annoying guy) and how interactions which should be tense just go so smoothly and everyone communicates perfectly.

Not sure what to think of this yet, I enjoy the Firefly-ish vibes but it's feeling a bit like Baby's First Scifi. Why am I getting such a break down of how worm hole travel works? You're not reinventing the wheel, I already get it. Why are you giving me the pros and cons of an ai ship getting a body? They're pretty obvious. Hopefully it'll pick up soon or do something interesting.

Chapters and chapters of very long sentences and not much happening and then Hugo hits you with: "It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. The family had no bread. No bread literally. Seven children!" 😭

The sexism and misogyny is strong in this one 🤮

I was not expecting the duke to be a major major 🤣

Miles is finally facing negative consequences and immediately spirals

Checkovs heart attack 😬

Someone in power: clearly the rumors about these child mages are exaggerated, there's no way they're that powerful

100 pages later: *shocked Pikachu face*

For a clone of a genius, Mark is such an idiot. Not only does he almost immediately get made but then he doesn't realize he's been made and thinks everything is going super smoothly for no reason. Meanwhile Miles is having a full on panic trying to outplan Mark's absence of a plan.

The dragons have invented Non-Euclidean geometry!

My libby loan ran out at the worst time and now I need to wait for the physical book to get here so I can finish it 😭

If Csevet betrays Maia, I'm going to riot. Maia needs a friend so bad because the weight of his responsibilities is definitely starting to crush him 😬

Always a strong start for a book to start with multiple pages describing the grammatical conventions of the society 😅

Miles is so paranoid but it's ok because everyone really is out to get him 👍 this is what happens when you've got to maintain two identities but you are very distinctive

Everytime an evil company wants to genetically engineer a race of superior employees/slaves they think they've accounted for everything. And yet everytime it fails- maybe one day they'll regalia it won't work.
Paraphrasing but the complicit instructor POV character is already grappling with the inplications" "what can one man do?" A voice whispered in his head "more"
Like yeah dude slavery is wrong

I'm loving Jeremy's perspective as an outsider and I can't wait for everything to come out. Jean keeps opening his mouth and saying something deeply deeply concerning.

Rin gets betrayed at every opportunity and you'd think she'd be tired of it by now (cause I certainly am)

...i did not see that coming :0

I'm loving it so far but just like with Simon vs the Homosapien Agenda its got me hella stressed out. A little bit of communication would go a long way :0

This book feels kinda meh to me. The main character doesn't seem to have any life goals beside getting rich and living in luxury- I get the feeling she just doesn't like anything. I can tell she was written by a man- all she talks about is how attractive she is and how often she has sex. And the plot is only just now starting to pick up so :/