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This is so incredibly dull. The writing is so slow, nothing happens, the things that happen are without reason.

3/4 through the book, and Rin is just getting worse. She has now become an eternal victim. Constantly angry and arguing, but never actually doing nothing, just righteous indignant outrage over everything, minor or major.

Protip: awkward manufactured moment in the dialog? Interrupt by having a loud sound pierce the calm or shatter the morning or somesuch. No need to think the conversation through!

Feels weak in many places especially characters. Suddenly nezha and her form the perfect fighting pair with a hand wave.
Altan is stoic and aloof suddenly he's chummy and talkative. No consistency.
Everyone is impossibly beautiful.

75% through the book and still can't get over these stupid names which resemble the sounds made when clearing a clogged nose or high and mighty lords scoffing at peasants. The author had a clear choice to do something, anything else, but chose this anyway.

It's so funny watching all of these ceremonies and rituals, people pretending to be holy and humble. Everyone jostling in factions vying for power. The whole organisation gets called out too, it's full of corruption and hubris that exists solely out of a sense of its own self importance but they carry on with these things anyway.

Feels so long... The writing is fascinating. An archaic style but set far in the future and gives a wonderful sense of disorientation and timelessness

Absolutely packed with biology, anthropology, ecology and other sciences. It is not light reading but slow down, pay attention, quite rewarding and insightful.

Very clever title

Screwing money out of peasants is the foundation of civilisation.

So his wife's been murdered and he's on the run, or on the sail rather. This better not be one of those spiritual journeys without any explanation

The cat is just a footnote...

Talks about how coincidences don't make science.

Spends an entire chapter talking about how intuitive imperial is due to a few almost coincidences.

What kind of science book uses imperial measurements.

So this top secret organisation which is intent on maintaining its secrecy, made a very public landing at a crowded high school and loudly shouted for a specific person to go with them. Ok. Makes sense.

So cringe

Rosemary packed up and left Don without a word because of some dumb assumption she made, that was it? That hospital scene made zero sense and added nothing to the story. What a waste.