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this book is what THE GOBLIN EMPEROR should have been...

"But as he [Shon Hopwood] grows older, he finds himself at a different stage where he wouldn't dream of doing anything violent or breaking the law." this did not age well

if you liked Mike Chen's A QUANTUM LOVE STORY, you'll enjoy this!

no one told me that this would be funny!!! the characters are super full of life (pun intended, because one of them is undead) and the vibes aren't overly serious, which is really nice.

I told myself I would stick with it until the end but I am not vibing with this. The humor just doesn't really click with me

not really sure how i feel about this yet. i'll probably stick it through to the end, but idk i'm not totally gripped? it honestly feels kinda 2010-style wacky lmao. maybe i'm spoiled on like. chinese transmigration novels, but this has been kinda so-so thus far.

i realized that i have no idea what this book is actually about

what is going onnnnn

I was wondering about that....there are some switches that most people don't realize they don't just flip, but actually pull then flip then release.

WAIT THIS IS SO FUNNY <spoiler>the fact that the accelerator failed became they were a *smidge* off when last week I literally talked to a guy who works at Los Alamos and was like "yeah we found out that the accelerator has drifted up by 1 cm over the past 50 years but it's totally</spoiler>

Hm not quite my favorite of Mike Chen's work so far, but we'll see!

I can't believe that in 20XX when this is set they've made such amazing strides in radiation shielding technology that there can be an observation deck for the accelerator and not a shit ton of dirt

i'm HOLLERING that the baby Translators are taught not to eat the koi in a koi pond because someone brought back that info about humans, which is hilariously such a direct reference to Ancillary Mercy i love it

babe why r u so obsessed with the nazi? pls girl free urself

SO GOOD! I ate dinner at like 8:30 tonight because i was too distracted reading this

hmm. i really like Dani but i'm not really meshing with the MMC. why does he feel so emotionally constipated?? i also feel like the voice is somewhat inconsistent -- Livesay's writing can be really funny at times, but sometimes the humor actively detracts from the tension in the romance.

listening on audio although GR doesn't have an audio listing for this book apparently

tbh this story just makes me sad for Marion

extremely excited for the horror element to start...pls come soon

we're out here committing war crime after war crime huh

i really liked Jook-Liang's section! i was very sad to see Wong Suk go but really love how Choy explored this formative time of Jook-Liang's life

I'm learning a lot and hearing the specifics that this book covers is really enlightening!

I'm not a huge fan of how this glosses over the corruption and issues with the Pinkertons and just kind of frames them as detectives rather than a sketchy institution that tried to bust unions, but I do enjoy the protagonists and werewolf plot lines!

I can see why a lot of people are so-so about this -- Verble's prose is very practical, almost straightforward, in a way that matches Two's personality really well but isn't quite so attractive to readers looking for flowery prose. I enjoy it (it reminds me a bit of Makiia Lucier's writing), and it's also quite nice in audio format.

the boroughs have so much character to them--i'm worried i'm going to be on the edge waiting for the sequel this is so good

a very fast read so far--very mafi-esque in the prose.