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He painted the battlefield. Reminds me of Peeta painting the arena.

Mickle getting shot I did not remember. The plot reveal about Florian I did not remember. Both of those were pretty interesting.

“He vaguely recalled he had been a child in Dorning, but the memory carried no weight. He was what he was now, and a stranger in his own past. He was Colonel Kestrel and had never been anything else.”

One thing I’m noticing about this author is how he skips over battles or romances or other moments of great character development just to get to the after effects. At least, sometimes. And honestly more power to him. I completely respect that. Validates my own approach to such things.

“I’m not going to stay dead the rest of my life.”

“He had already done violence to a man. He did not wish to compound this by doing violence to the truth. He had never told a lie; it occurred to him that sooner or later he would have to lie outrageously. The best he could do was put off the moment as long as possible.”

“Never in his life had he raised a hand in anger. But in that moment, more than anything else in the world, he had wanted to kill the man. Until then, he had believed in his own good nature. He pleaded that he was a kindly, honorable human being. But the bloodied face rose up in front of him…He swore every way he knew: Never again would he do such a deed.”

The amount of morality just in the first chapter.

“As for Theo, he loved virtue, despised injustice, and was always slightly hungry. Apart from that, he was reasonably happy.”

THIS IS BRUTAL

The way they try to keep the younger ones from seeing the horrible things but they themselves are literally also only 12 😔

Oh gosh I just realized Ripread (the rat) is lowkey a character prototype for Haymitch. He has the same vibe.

This is concerning. I am concerned.

Very intrigued so far. Rome has been mentioned twice lol

I probably won’t finish this but I’ll log it anyway.

This is crazy. This is terrifying.