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No amount of warnings could have prepared me for how gruesome this is. Idk if I can continue.

I’m starting to understand why people who read Poppy War before Kuang’s other books were so disappointed.

We have our first Karachi cliche of bougainvillea on page 3 🫢

A bit slower than I expected…

Girl it’s been 6 weeks! How has your husband you loved been wiped from your memory that fast??????

The lack of internal monologue and distress about already being married is the least believable part of this fantastical world.

Once again - no matter what I rate the rest of the book that first chapter was 5 stars.

Whatever I rate the rest of this book - the first chapter is a solid 5 stars.

This books goes from so-good-I-can’t-put-it-down to yawn so fast.

Damn Kuang…

sure there are some issues with the storytelling but I feel like a lot of the haters were just expecting trope-y haters to lover to romantasy….

Tad too early to say but I feel like the negative word of mouth this book is getting is so unwarranted.

Does this woman not feel ANY whiplash from being sent back 200 years? How is she falling into routine so easily? How come we get paragraphs of her mulling over herbs and their uses but Frank hasn’t been mentioned in about 100 pages???

Might just me be but I am fighting for my life trying to remember all the characters.

Still too early to tell how I’ll feel about the book as a whole but can confidently say it doesn’t have any cliches so far.

As usual, I can’t read dostevesky without rereading pages multiple times to soak it all in and underlining furiously.

this book is single handedly curing my brain rot