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Sydney Carton 🤝 Tyrion Lannister

Especially in his "cards on hand" monologue to Barsad

getting severe dpr occupation flashbacks after Darnay was arrested 🫠

had no mood for it so it'll remain on my tbr for another time

tbh I had way more appreciation for this book before Anne and Rackham were introduced because cheap romance and semi-implied/explicit smut ruined the flow. moreover, initially the format was following the narrator within the story and switching between the two, whereas after 50% mark it blended both women together & there's no clear distinction between who's telling it anymore, eliminating the impact of unreliability

it had to ruin the prose with heavy handed, character as a mouthpiece, white guilt/saviour complex spiel that uses all the right buzzwords with tldr "slavery is bad" in a very annoying american-centric manner. ugh.