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these names and the lack of conventions are giving me uncomfortable pause

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Hit a bit of a wall for my own reading focus but OMG I'm hella enjoying this one

Steerpike afoot is a PROBLEM

RTC 11/28

GOD, I just love these stories so much

THE INFANT HAS BEEN CHRISTENED

Dense does not even begin to adequately describe this book

If you're the kind of person who enjoys convoluted libraries, definitely pic this book up

this is so strange to say about a horror book, but it's really cute?? it's kind of cute

Each story is creepier than the one that came before it and I'm into it

TW: description of blood libel

This book is so fucking fun

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

The backstory is so nicely woven with the main mystery

This is legit one of the saddest books I've ever read

this is a book in which there are no winners and I am completely enthralled

Really atmospheric and there's one mystery layered on top of another

The fantasy!Socialists in this book are the only compelling things I've experienced so far and of course: they're the ones who blew up the Emperor 🙃

There is a lack of depth in this book's world-building, but I can't quite tell what the holes are. I think it's the lack of culture aside from vague references to opera and stained glass and differently hard-to-pronounce names

Similar to Angels of the Crows, the interestingness comes in references without much exploration

This book is everything I have been searching for in a thriller, L O R D

Hm, so we have a biracial protagonist and a world build in which the "white" race rules over the "dark" race

Hm.

Wound up restarting this one of audiobook (thanks Chirp!) and it has my favorite kind of plot set-up: this dude just died was such an asshole, it's a blessing.

I am DYING to know why he deserved to eat it

New York City in the 80s was f*cking terrifying, holy shit

If you've read THE LUCKY ONES by Liz Lawson, this book is very similar in tone and relationship. I'm on the verge of tears chapter after chapter. It's so beautifully rendered.

Tau is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad time