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Just got the audiobook again. It’s comforting to return to a world I know so well, despite my mixed feelings on the series.

Reading about Aerea’s death when I feel sick was not fun though. But it does make me want to know more about Valyria, before and after the fall, and I’m sad we’ll probably never get that. Guess I’ll just have to imagine my own eldritch horrors.

Finally reading this!! Really enjoying it so far!! Especially the scene where Akeha tells their mom they want to be confirmed as a boy, the way the narration constantly switches between he and they pronouns, them thinking they have to tell her before they change their mind, reciting the pronouns in their head—it’s all so fucking good!!! My nonbinary darling!!! Just. A big gender mood.

“If there was anyone in the world who understood about parabatai, it was James’s parents. On the first night of their return from Highgate, Matthew had dragged a pile of bedding into James’s room, rolled himself up in it, and gone to sleep. No one tried to make him leave—when Tessa brought soup and tea to James, she brought some for Matthew too.”

Brb I’m just crying

Can I just say I am LOVING the parabatai bond between Jamie and Matthew? Like father like son, huh? I don’t even know if Will could always feel Jem’s pain (and vice versa) with such clarity but maybe that was uhh....for the best. And possibly Jamie’s heritage could change things. Anyway, it is doing things to my heart. I wonder if Cordelia and Lucie will be like that?

Absolutely loving this book so far!!! I love all my children so, so much. Also, as much as I love the tid cast, I’m glad they’re not overshadowing the new characters. I felt like that happened sometimes with the tmi cast in tda but uuhhh I didn’t like half the tda cast much anyway so I guess I didn’t care lol.

I don’t know who to be more worried about, Lucie or Jamie. Why are my children like this???

Funny how when you’re crying you can’t actually read the words on the page

The 140ish pages between when you think Jem has died to when you find out he has not are unliveable and yet. Here I am (again).

I stopped reading this book about a month and a half ago because I was (justifiably) dreading that moment, but it is shocking how much reading I can get done when I decide to read and not stop until all of them are safe.

Did I really stop reading this for over a month because I was scared to relive a certain something that happens in chapter 14? Even though I know how it ends? Even though I know how it plays out over the next ~130 years? Yes. Yes I did.

Have I read chapter 14 yet? No. No I have not.

I could have binged the last 100 or so* pages of this book tonight...but I know I will be so sad by the end so I decided not to. (Also I didn’t have the patience for another Cersei chapter lmao.)

*the other pages are all the Houses and stuff and the “sneak peek” of The Winds of Winter

Me: why am I enjoying this book so much more than the others???
Helpful wiki: Jon Snow has the most chapters in A Dance with Dragons and Daenerys has the 3rd most.
Me: oh that makes sense

I just need to say I LOVE Jon in this book (and I’m so scared for the ending)

I’ve read so much of this book today, it actually might be too much. I’m enjoying most of it though! The Daenerys chapters are hard because this was my least favorite part of her plot during the show and now it’s even more stressful because everything’s going so differently

I’m not even a quarter of the way into this book and it’s already so good??? I’m absolutely shocked by how much I’m enjoying this compared to A Feast for Crows but then again, AFfC was missing almost all the characters I love. Jon’s chapters have been especially good and Tyrion’s last chapter shook me to my core

Should I be reading this when I'm also reading so many other books? No. But Libby gave me the audiobook way earlier than they said it would be available (just like with A Feast for Crows lol) so here I am again.