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The prologue was dicey, ngl. We were flirting with dnfing there, but managed to get to chapter 1.

"There were knives that killed a body, and there were words that destroyed a soul."

"If there was one thing she knew about prayer, it was that it wasn’t always for the sake of the person being prayed for."

Religion in a nutshell?

"More and more people had been conscripted for the holy task of spreading the Union’s borders in hopes that it would coax Asten into a full return..."

Yes, let's kill a bunch of ppl and get more land. That will absolutely bring our God back. Foolproof plan right there.

"Few congregational priests came to the torture room, though they were happy enough to send others there. Hearts of iron and stomachs of silk, the lot of them."

What a line

spookier than I was expecting

I am already kinda obsessed...

I had missed everyone!

So far so good...

Ooo we got Leo's PoV. Nice surprise.

Now we've got started!

Hmm. Idk about this... The magic is fascinating! BUT this is reading way on the younger side of YA. Our MC acting like she is 12

Was kinda worried I wasn't going to like this at the beginning, but all good now! The chronic illness rep is hitting.

The descriptions are a lot but I'm interested.

First of all, that cover is everything. Second of all, I know I'm only 5% in but I'm so lost?

It's not so much that the science is heavy but that it reads like a textbook. There is 0 emotion going on from anyone, between the characters and between book and reader.

I swear I'll eventually finish this.

"If his mother were here, she’d have dragged him off to bed and stuck him with a mug of aguapanela. It was some sugary tea remedy she’d learned from her Colombian mother-in-law that was supposed to cure everything. Noam had never learned how to make it."

As a Colombian this is news to me...Agua de Panela is just a typical drink here. It's not touted as any kind of remedy. At least not in this region

“The lesser of two evils, or the greater good. Get a good man to utter either of those phrases, and there is no one more eager to begin perpetrating evil .”

“We can’t start mistaking what we can do for what we have the right to do.”

He placed his hand on Elder Dain’s shoulder and leaned forward, letting time wash over him again. “Augurs shouldn’t need threats,” he concluded quietly into Lyrus’s ear.

Davian being a badass