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Oooh okay. So that's what's going on

The unreliable narrator and withholding of information is more obnoxious and teasing than intriguing and mysterious

What is going on in this story

It's like viewing an adoption from the animals point of view

"I'm at least three quarters straight .."

I love changing it to the audiobook version 5 times before it sticks. Never change, Goodreads

Please Goodreads, why do I have to set the audiobook version 2-3 times before it sticks?

Looks like another early 1900s story. Love the casual magic in the otherwise realistic setting

Is this genuine good baby advice?

I wonder if this is legitimately good baby advice

Down down the witches road~

"Separately we have all been forced to live beneath the Emperor's heel... but together, together we will see him dead, and his colonies freed."

Man alfee is a jerk but he's not entirely wrong...

Laws made by tyrants are not laws worth following

Asexual representation ayyy

I like how Koa is a non traditional male

"There’s freedom in stories, you know? We read them and we become something else. We imagine different lives. And while we turn the pages we get to live them. To escape the lot we’ve been given… We don’t just read to imagine better lives. We read to be introduced to all kinds of lives... To understand others better. It’s escape and it’s also a way to become more connected to everyone around you"

There’s freedom in stories, you know? We read them and we become something else. We imagine different lives. And while we turn the pages we get to live them. To escape the lot we’ve been given… We don’t just read to imagine better lives. We read to be introduced to all kinds of lives... To understand others better. It’s escape and it’s also a way to become more connected to everyone around you

Lol hoshi means star in both fictional Japan and real

Jesus Christ what's the point of all this unrelated expositions

His decades-long career, decorated, promoted, derided. How had he missed it? How had he not seen until it was too late, whom he had pledged his allegiance to? He was not alone in his complicity but that did not excuse it either... If only he had done one thing. One single solitary thing to resist.

Glorious purpose!

Looks like Cambridge didn't give women degrees till the 1940s the last British college to do so

Gloooorious purposeeeee

Does this book take place in the 80s?

Wait, is Alice Chinese?

Does kuang rock climb?

If you see a thing you want, all you have to do is ask, whispers the widow.

Madame Boucher? The French word for mouth (thanks Gavv) nice

"she says you are a good man."
"I am a bad man trying to be a good one "