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Love this so much so far, childhood memories!!!

Feel like someone has to say it.....🙈 It's not as engaging as the first one....🫠

Why is there so much of this book left... I've decided that I WILL finish it but I have regrets about that decision

Genuinely cannot say whether I absolutely love or absolutely hate this book

The mushroom witch story!! 🥲

I shall reread this, then read the sequel, and then read the 3rd book once it comes out in 2 weeks. Life as a Kingfisher fan is good.

The sign of a great audiobook narrator is taking a story that features the word "squeak" a lot and rendering it so it becomes sooo fucking creepy!
Also love King was like, let's write a sequel to Cujo AND Duma Key, I can do BOTH and also Covid shall be relevant to the plot

Thanks, Chuck!

Already the Most Swedish novel I have ever read because murder happens bc she has an insanely big flat in Vasastan...who wouldn't kill to keep that?!? 🤣 No wonder everyone in her förening hates her

Rereading this because I love it and no one can stop me 😌

"There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That is what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away. That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away."

"I suppose it might seem strange that I should thank him by shouting at him, but it meant more than thanks: I wanted him to be human."

"Yes, ma’am? Did I do something wrong?” “Yes! Very wrong! Why the hell didn’t you tell me you knew how to pick locks?”
“Oh,” I said sheepishly. “Well. I don’t really know how, ma’am. I just memorized the movements to unlock three basic types of locks.”
She stared at me, outraged. “That…that is basically the goddamn definition of ‘knows how to pick locks,’ boy!"

"Nun bin ich groß / Mir blüht kein Märchenbuch. / Ich muß schon oft "Sie" zu mir selber sagen. / Nur manchmal noch, in jenen stillen Tagen / Kommt meine Kindheit heimlich zu Besuch."

"Signs, however, didn’t rely on the existence of the supernatural. History wanted to be remembered. Evidence hated having to live in dark, hidden places and devoted itself to resurfacing. Truth was messy. The natural order of an entropic universe was to tend toward it. 'That’s what ghosts really are', Aint Melusine had said, 'the past refusing to be forgot.'"

"When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief."

"They did that here on T deck—smudged black onto their faces in thick, wide circles. Rakkun eyes, they called it, after the scavenging animal; for they descended from a scavenging people. So they said. So they told themselves. So their stories went. This far from the past, no one could truly know their history."

I desperately need someone to discuss with me how this can be the exact same book as Filigree Street but written 10 years later? Why is Natasha Pulley obsessed with this extremely specific character dynamic???

Casually rereading one of the best openings of a fantasy novel ever

Reading this while War and Peace glares disappointedly at me from a corner

The beautiful moment of understanding some of the worldbuilding of a new fantasy novel

The background ambience in this audiobook is really fancy 😯 They even did all the singing!!

"I apologize: I have by heart the names of clouds / For no good reason, and the waterways of Europe / Run three wet dimensions through my sleep"

This is either a superb collection or I just really love bird poems (possibly both)

‘The song of the sea,’ said Luis. Brian raised an eyebrow. ‘That’s surprisingly poetic.’ ‘Studying the ocean forces you to be poetic, because we haven’t worn all those ideas and concepts soft around the edges yet,’ said Luis. ‘The language is still mired in the maritime, and I don’t know that it’s going to catch up anytime soon.’

"The kings who have died / one by one / Are reborn in poets' hearts" (Guillaume Apollinaire)

The only way someone can sell me a WW1 novel is make it all about one of my favourite poems in the world, and make it Orpheus and Eurydice

This actually has a lot of plot but unfortunately I find it hard to get past the fact that Shane is the most boring character ever...

I cannot believe we are doing the "first kiss in tense situation with immediate apology" again....why...

Hype for Piper: high, was an insanely cool character in his single scene in the first book
Hype for Galen: idk my main impression of him after 2 book is that he's witty and has nightmares