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i am in LOVE with this. i know some people say Jordan is very very wordy and flowery and that it can be tedious for some people, but i’m genuinely loving how vivid the imagery has become and how dire some shit feels in here. the whole section with Rand bringing Tam to town has had me on the edge of my seat, and it taking so long is making shit feel SO dire.

“A scrape behind him sent a chill to his marrow” is one of my favorite descriptions thus far. this book just keeps getting better and better

loooooving the prose and character relationships so far. reminds me of some of the fun stuff from before the Fellowship set off in Lord of the Rings lol

very very good introduction so far. the world feels SO alive and interesting. i have a few issues picturing things in my head, specifically the prologue with the mountain and the island is a little murky in my head but i feel like it’s intentionally vague so i don’t mind it

couldn’t update the other day because goodreads was down but i’m gonna take this really slow. i’m loving the giant journey in this book and it feels like one i wanna savor.

holy fuck dude i am absolutely in LOVE with this i sound like a broken record

jeeeeesus the way they captured queer infighting and internalized transphobia so perfectly in just one page is astounding.

this is SO fucking good dude i cannot fucking wait for the next two books in the trilogy

this is the second horror story i’ve consumed this year that surrounds the concept of social media content moderators (the first was the Faces of Death remake which was mid for me) and this is the vastly better rendition of it. Jane Schoenbrun has a much stronger understanding of the internet than tons of people writing and directing stories about the internet.

this is fucking KILLER so far. and i just found out it’s gonna be a trilogy with 10 episodes of the fictional show in each book, so that’s VERY exciting for me.

“They seemed so sure of themself then, and I always admired their confidence. But I never really believed it myself. Because they don’t give people like us the Sunday-night time slot on HBO.
They put us in hospitals. They send us to hell.”

INCREDIBLE. soooo fucking stoked to be reading this, Jane Schoenbrun is one of my all-time fave filmmakers.

Lady Patience finally being in the mix is interesting and she’s a FASCINATING character, kind of unhinged and strange woman in a beautiful way. and i’m loving Fitz’s conversations with the Fool.

oops didn’t mean to change this LMAO my boyfriend was with me for our 1 year anniversary this weekend so i paused it but i’m jumping back in now

OH THE PLOT THICKENSSSSS

lots of fantasy stories either have you learn the world at the same pace as the main character or put you in the pov of someone who already knows a fuckton and make you learn solely with context clues. this does a bit of both, which is keeping me on my toes and makes this book feel extremely dynamic. i’m kinda wishing some action will happen soon but the writing is absolutely impeccable.

Fitz is such a great character holy shit

idk if i’ve ever read the word “perspicacious” before this LMAO

i’m also really impressed with how kind and empathetic this story is. that’s a rarity in medieval fantasy in my experience, usually shit is really dark and hard to stomach but even if something bad happens it treats the characters with kindness after all is said and done.

god these characters are soooo well written. the plot is very slow but in a way i think is done VERY well. i know the pacing messes with a lot of people but as someone who got into Stephen King in all his ramblings and run-on paragraphs when i was in middle school, i was very prepared for a story this slow.

oh mannnnnn oh man oh man this is something special.

and right as i said i was feeling disinterested, something happened that locked me back in again lol

i’m starting to feel lost now. the pacing has been so weird and disjointed and now that he’s at the institute i’m starting to notice just how annoying every single character is, not just the Golds he’s met at the institute but also the Sons of Ares. and it feels like the book is just introducing people left and right so it’s hard to keep track now. idk i might dnf.

god the body horror is RIDICULOUS in this i am so uncomfortable

“This is not the Mars they show us on the HC. This is not a place unfit for man. It is a place of lies, wealth, and immense abundance. I gasp at the grotesquerie.” fucking INCREDIBLE prose.

this does NOT read like a debut novel, i am WILDLY impressed with this.

holy fucking shit dude this is SOUL-CRUSHINGLY sad

took me like two chapters to get used to the writing style and i’m still VERY overwhelmed at the detail of this world-building, but i’m enjoying the story so far.

made it to the last chapter of the book at work but didn’t have time to log it before my break ended. gonna finish this up now, it’s been a wild ride.