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took me about 200 pages to get into this and now I'm absolutely hooked

part III has me discombobulated like the always sunny pepe silva meme in connecting the endless number of dots Islington's strewn across the three worlds

maternal instincts now extend to Vis's pet alupi so if something happens to the dog, it's game over for this series

my maternal instincts still run strong for Vis but I'm getting severe whiplash when there's three of him in parallel

favourite quote so far:

Junior embraced his father to say goodbye.
"You smell like a French whore!" Mr. Raglan snapped.
"It's jasmine!" Junior retorted.

so when do athena and odysseus kiss

hayfever's hit me like a truck this evening. the relevance? my tear ducts are already sensitised AND Islington's pulling at my heartstrings in this chapter filled with grief and nostalgia and all I want to do is wrap Vis in a blanket burrito. have a good evening folks x

it's brilliant but crawling at a snail pace back into high fantasy requires all focus and attention from my frontal lobe so that hurts a little

unintentional theme for Q1's reading: narratives of what feel like 100 POVs in ten different timelines. at least this one's chronological.

things are finally happening almost halfway through the book. POVs/timeline's a mess. Luca and Vale are friendship goals

trying to continue my fantasy streak and this one's really testing my resolve

1. didn't realise the [theatre] setting is inspired by ancient greek mythology so my own canon from reading euripedes' tragedies is a satisfying end to the work week
2. Jude is Nick Wilde-coded to a t; personality-wise and that he's a redhead
3. but for some reason my brain's coded Jude as blonde Tom Blyth playing TBOSAS Snow (pre-buzz cut) and icl, I love my brain for that

A dark YA fantasy with a theatre setting, murder + an enemies-to-lovers trope? the mention of Dionysus 8 lines into the first chapter? oh we're SO back

rhesus: athena playing gamemaker in a duck-duck-goose chase where the trojans are sitting ducks and the greeks are geese playing chess.

play #4: Iphigenia at Aulis - imagine leading an army set to rescue your SIL and the winds just aren't having it so this random monk tells you to sacrifice your daughter and you follow through with it. I personally could not, but ancient greek kings were on another level of literal “fuck around and find out” vibes.

divine frenzy is a reasonable excuse in mistaking your son for a lion. RIP Pentheus, you would've hated the Catholic Church.

fin. play #2 Orestes: Apollo swooping in a second time to play family counsellor, where the generational trauma lies in being blood-thirsty, god-pleasing, revenge-driven souls. if your mum was Clytemnestra, you too would be haunted and/or inspired by the amount of blood spilled by her and her sister.

fin. play #1 Phoenician Women: that's a messed up family tree, no wonder Apollo said “not today for you or your bloodline”