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“I’ve been thinking about how it has been possible to coexist for millennia on this planet with other complex creatures without knowing they exist. Why would they hide from us? But if we are to them as ants are to us, it makes sense. They haven’t been hiding. They’ve probably been right in front of us since the dawn of the species. We’re just too stupid to see them.”

Okay, but like WHY?! It's never explained why Riven is a thing, why it's necessary to go there to "take down the spirits" why it's dangerous if you have more humans die and go there. If anything it seems completely no stakes? Spirits can't come back to earth so who cares?!? Why does the reporter think the MC is keeping people safe? Do nothing in Riven and and it wouldn't even matter!?! Ugh

This book should have been called cascade failure instead.

Okay. Only a third though this book. Loving the premise, kinda iffy on the execution.

The sheer amount of violence in this book is disturbing. It's all people on people as well. Makes you feel like humans can never escape their violent tendencies even if they are a diverged alien e race.

The sheer amount of violence in this book is insane. It's super disturbing, especially since it's all people vs people.

I dunno... This book has gotten pretty gross. She's 48 and he's 22 and then you multiple scenes like this: As soon as he kissed me, I forgot his age. Our minds started to blend again, an intimacy that made my desire for him flare like fire hitting oil.

Urtho may have created the maka’ar to combat gryphons, but he probably used captured tervardi as his base.”

Oh really. Urtho made the makaar? Why are there such glaring errors in this book

So much of this book just pisses me off.

This book is insanely readable for me. I read up to 56% in one sitting.

I was not ready for the amount of footnotes in this book. It's fun, but constantly having to click on my ereader is less fun. So it makes for slow progress.

Okay, I think I've finally caught up to about the point where I stopped reading 3 years ago. Time to discover what all the memes are about!

Oh dang this book is amazing. Fantastic. I waxed poetical on it all morning to those around me. I love how the atevi perspective is written as being so different from human.