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obsessed with Calvin. Every guy should be more like Calvin

NICE oooooo that’s a good plot twist man oh MAN

this is SUCH an ambitious premise but I think he call pull it off

taking all my brain cells to remember the plot of the last book. flipping back and forth to the glossary

okay fuck crying by chapter six that’s gotta be a new record

really enjoying this but no WAY this main character is 16
also Eo is for sure not long for this world - I hope I’m proven wrong I think she’d be more interesting alive

“more and more it felt better to disappear into Pupkin’s dreams”

“A braneworld ekpyrotic universe is eternal cataclysmic cosmic applause.”
type shit.

so obsessed with Peter what a guy

the House of Hades nostalgia is real…. Kuang’s exploration of academic burnout has always been one of the most compelling thing about her writing to me so this should be JUICY

“But, Hawking said, near a black hole, you could have a situation where the negative-energy-virtual particle falls past the horizon, leaving the positive-energy virtual particle so bereft that it becomes real and wanders away”

this must be where captain haddock got all his creative insults from

I am cheering on the physicists from the side lines: come up with more weird shit so you can tell me all about it!!

“After a few algal bubble teas the slug never needs to eat again. It begins to photosynthesize”

“no papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy”

“the world is a prism not a window. Wherever we look we find new refractions”

“life began to communicate prior to the advent of more complex existence”

“It is not hard to live a life that consists merely of passing time. I am one of the fortunate one who escape being called”

ILLUSTRATIONS LET GOOOO

people don’t believe in magic but its also common knowledge that the Hounds can read people’s minds??? make it make sense

I think what this book lacks is good set up - so many of the world building elements are introduced right at the moment they become vitally important to the plot which makes everything feel a little too convenient and made up

ace rep?? could it be???

also annoyed at the world building - some of the guardian classes have specific jobs: scholar, artist, soldier and then the Tiger and the Bear are just… kind of badass I guess?

I don’t understand the hype…. Bearson keeps making truly baffling decisions and I can’t decide if it’s all going to be revealed to be a giant conspiracy or if the author is just bluntly using him to steer the plot along

“He wondered whether there were not forgotten corners and angles and corridors between fenced land that belonged to no one yet. Perhaps if one flew high enough, he thought, one would be able to see” surprised at how much I’m enjoying this

“In a few weeks or months, I wouldn’t be sad anymore and back to all my old indifference, which was ordinary enough, but just then it seemed monstrous. I squeezed the cross on Raphael’s rosary until my hand bled” OW what the hell

“when he turned his head, the pollen light caught the vaults of his throat”

“It’s mercury. It comes from the trees. They drag it up from the graves and when it’s cold they weep” MAGICAL

“In a shilling-spin of an instant I realized that he wasn’t crude work but the ruin of something fine. The same as everything else here. I felt ashamed for not having noticed before.”

“I looked behind me again. The trees were talking now that the sun has been out for a while - the green clunk of settling wood - but there was nobody there.”