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according to this book, the only thing worse than being poor… is being Italian

I thought people exaggerated the difficulty keeping track of the naming system in this book… I was wrong

Help I’ve been sucked into this nightmare fever dream and I can’t escape until I’ve reread them all

Have not thought about this book in 15 years and yet suddenly it was the only thing I wanted to read

The excitement coursing through me right now cannot be healthy

Why does the author think Tangier is in the desert? How does an editor not catch that?

I cannot believe the World Series has distracted me so much it’s now taking me over a week to finish a 320 page book. Who am I

Reread is just as good as the first time

Reread time let’s go

“The duffel bag containing my worldly possessions huffs an anxious sigh when I drop it at my feet” ??? oh god. Is the kind of writing I have to look forward to…

content warning: gruesome animal death in chapter 29

CW animal cruelty in chapter 10. ugh.

Oh god the mathematics/physics explanations and mentions of “entropy” are giving me flashbacks to The Atlas Paradox pls no

funny how all these “feisty, stubborn” FMCs are actually so dumb that they’ll always actively defy the only people keeping them alive? wtf??

Staying up past my bed time because I’m so excited

I’m most definitely not a romance girlie but I have high hopes for this!!

First we have an “ornate gold key” in Ptolemaic Egypt (??) but now we also have the narrator, living in antiquity, referring to Antioch as the “Mecca for legal minds”. Mecca??? In like, 40 BCE? Who edited this book????

No editor caught the fact that the author wrote about an “ornate gold key” being used to “unlock a secret room” at the library of Alexandria..? come on

Why does this book not show up under her author page that also lists “Excavations”?? I’m scared people will miss this!

This was my childhood favourite 17-ish years ago. Will I still enjoy it? Who knows, but I need something light after multiple thrillers sooo

Will no one give this girl a break??

the way I’m already kicking my feet giggling…

Being in a slump this bad in January of all months is noooot good

I thought I was going to love this but it’s sending me into a reading slump pls send help

Will the “tell, don’t show” of it all ever end? No?