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This book can't decide if it wants to be Kushiel's Dart or Lord of the Rings, which is just a bizarre combination.

The problem with having two villains with the same title and surname is that, if you are constantly using their title/surname, then the reader has a hard time keeping track of where the slightly evil one is, and where the very evil one is, and what they're each up to.

I only care about one plotline out of the six or so we've been introduced to. Can I count this as read if I wind up skimming most of it?

On the bright side, the LBA collapse has already been mentioned. Also, unrelated, there's a typo on page 16.

This is really just a slower-paced Red Rising, isn't it? Not that I'm complaining.

Just to be a prick, I would like to point out that schooners and triremes don't belong together.

I'm not NOT enjoying this, but also, holy cow, this is bullshit.

Hmm, not loving this as much as the previous one, but I suppose it's still early doors.

The world building isn't the best I've ever seen, but the political games are SO much better than my last read

It's too early yet to say anything about plot or characters, but this is DELICIOUSLY better written than my last read.

Yes, Guinness DOES taste like angry marmite! (I've never had marmite) (but I will die on this hill)

I lied. DNF.

Well, it took 200 pages to get interesting, but it did get there.

I thought this would be too meta and literary for me to enjoy, and it's not! (so far, fingers crossed)

Let's see how this goes after I was bitching about pretty prose over plot in my last read. I feel like book karma might be coming for me.

I don't understand the Treila/Voyne storyline at all and I'm finding the whole book a little overwritten

This is what the Starving Saints wishes it could be

I've now met all three narrators, and let's just say none of them are people I'd want to grab a beer with. 'cept maybe Voyne.

Not for me, unfortunately. Rtc

Nasha and mickey really need to get on the same page or bad shit's gonna go down.

Though what with the alien political tension, bad shit is probably inevitable.

I will finish this one, I will!

There are an awful lot of words being used to say the same thing over and over in service of a very basic plotline right now. I'm not impressed.

Hmmm, I am not convinced. It's early yet but I'm thinking a) this might just be another novel about how terrible people are (oh no woe is us blah blah blah) and b) I like solitude. I would love to be left on an island like that. There's nothing in Rowan's desperation to leave that I feel any sympathy for.

That's...not how horses work

All the names and real myth variants and pseudo-myth variants are making my brain go BRRRRRR

Iskierka is the worst, isn't she?

Yes, if I had to face Achilles, I too would want an angry donkey at my side

(That's not the vibe of this book AT ALL but I had to throw it out there because it is 100% correct yes indeed)