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I'm into this, just wanted to comment that I like Natalie Nautus as a narrator, just listened to her in Library at Hellebore and the performance is quite different, different from Siren Queen and Bat Eater too!

'I didn't have an issue with non monogamy, I just didn't want to be in a toxic thrupple with those two.' hehe, relatable sentiment

I know Khaw isn't for everybody, but their writing is deffo for me 😍

If you'd told me that such a Malta moment would deeply move me back when I was reading the first book, I'd have called you a mad ship 😭😭

This final act is a mess, but it's also somehow quite fun!

I continue to be extremely upset by what's happening!! And disappointed in a couple of characters, though their actions make sense..

First half of this book I was like: I'm kinda disappointed, it's a bit meh. Then... Fuck, I feel like it's relentless in destroying me emotionally.

Oh lovely, being a dragon's companion is equivalent to having amazing healthcare! Very life-prolonging.

Whoa, was not expecting this reveal!!

Gotta love Malta coming into her own with the 'call the manager' type superpower 😅

Was not expecting *this* character to make a stand against a dragon, but I dig it!

Rigo is... Not the best of ambassadors, is he?

I feel like teenage Stella is now worse than Malta from Ship of Magic *face palm*. These poor teenage girls 😭😭

Oh gosh, we're going for high drama with this sort of romantic triangle!!!!

This Rillibee backstory feels like a hippie family sitcom (with a swearing parrot!) until... The thing.

Kind of excited that one of my fave characters of the last book is now positioned as an antagonist!

New place I want to live just dropped: with the commoners on Grass! They must be protected at all costs...

I do love the fact that the demon society has good social security, lol.

A very online Gen z author casually mentioning Harry Potter a bunch of times in a book published this year just. feels. so. weird.

Omg, horsey POV, this is amazing!!!

Love the mention of Enshittification, which is probably my next non-fiction read, super excited for that!

Also love the mention of how everything is trying to sell you something these days, which feels absolutely exhausting!

I'm not super interested in the mechanics on trying to go viral on TikTok (and don't use TikTok because it's just way too much stimulation for my poor brain to parse and process), so this Attention chapter is a lil tedious,but also being a creator sounds just exhausting.

Oh dear, I'm afraid I'm gonna be in the minority on this one...

Oh, so it is TikTok's fault that people are using 'spicy' a lot (I hate this term, even if it is a bowdlerized one, I just feel like we're infantilizing ourselves when using it, but it makes sense if algorithms are censoring more explicit things. Still hate it)

Oh, fun, pen and pencil have different origins, but pen and penis have the same origin!

This might be the first TP where I think the thematic content leaves to be desired (is it cause I studied journalism??). This discussion between William and Sacharissa where he cares about politics and she's like: regular people don't care about politics, they care about their lives and nobody says: THOSE ARE EXACTLY THE SAME THING?? Maybe it will turn around by the end, we will see.

Love that William has an inner editor for his thoughts, I also have that hahaha, have to think precisely!

Not sure about this cultural difference discussion re: dwarves and gold, buying each other off from their parents for marriage. Plays into: children owe their parents for raising them and all that.

Wait, Uberwald literally means Transylvania

Love how they invented all the important newspaper bits in one conversation!