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I'm going to try to make it to the 200-mark. considering dnf-ing this and might return to it later.

Why is he talking so formal? 🤔

Vampire?

“It is no jest,” he whispered. “Haewon-ah. Shin Haewon. I wish you could see my heart. I wish you could see how I feel for you.”

Good twist - I had not suspected this person

A man who destroyed books was a man with no empathy.”

“ The night will feel long, should what you fear occur, but it will not be endless. All darkness has its end.”

“Seojun was speechless. It was as though he were listening to himself back at Seogeomjeong, his father uttering the very words he had uttered to Haewon. He now felt her full offense “

“I hate how small you make me feel.”

😭😭😭

I know the class issue is a heavy barrier, but he’s literally looking down upon her family right in front of her 🤨

This is so good

If he couldn’t bother to be amiable, then she refused to try to be pleasant, either.”

His dad is abusive?

"You'll never be friendless. You will never be entirely alone."

"Mundane? Love is the closest thing to the heavens."

There were too many rules a woman had to live by."

Reading was an escape, but writing …

With writing, he could craft a haven for himself. A world where grief for his mother did not drown his father in endless mourning, where his sister’s love story did not end in ruin. Where corruption and brutal interrogation did not crush the innocent and the powerless. A world where children and strays were not swept away by floods, or starved by drought.”

I kind of hate it, but it's true. I can tell if I'm going to enjoy a story within the first 20 pages. I have rarely been wrong about this even for stories that grew on me at the 200pg-point. But if it took that long for me to enjoy it, I was still right :p

Chibenashi is emotionally repressed, so this is the first time in years he's expressing those feelings- even if they're negative: anger, despair, jealousy, etc

Moving Chibenashi out was a great choice - I’m still finding the narrative voice very dry. Will keep going, though for now

This team has got it! While the conclusion to the showdown felt a little easy, the confrontation between Whisper and Mimic was stellar. Composition, the IDW artists do not fear you!

Banned books has always been an issue it seems

"What will remain the same is the people's love for novels. Readers cannot be stopped."

"Novel reading is a dangerous business."

Africa?

This is a great plausible way to get her to the ball

"But if there was one thing she knew from years as a mechanic, it was that some stains never came out."

Okay, maybe Torin is a Lunar shell as well

Is Torin going to be evil?