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Amazing to read a book written by an author who can actually write, especially inmediately after reading a real flopper. Like idgaf about a Holmes pastiche but wow how cool to read prose that flows and builds a vibrant, creative fantasy world. Like that's not baseline what a book should do lmao

This is like. Shockingly debut. I can already tell the worldbuilding is going to be undercooked and the prose simply serviceable. But the promise of a slowburn is tooooo enticing.

are MM fantasy books now contractually obligated to have their cover designs ape A Marvellous Light? let's hope this one is better lol

Really, really enjoying this. I don't know how to put my finger on this, but this FEELS like a queer scifi novel written closer to 2010 than 2020. And that's a high compliment.

This whips heavy. I picked it up bc Wizards vs Lesbians love this one and it's not disappointing. I should have figured my weakness for alternate timelines/time loops can also extend to multiverse. The MCU multiverse tricked me into thinking it was boring!!!!

Well Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series is one of my favourite pieces of fiction of all time but already I need her to publish a hundred pieces of nonfiction like this. I'm having so much FUN

I thought I was getting good at this but the amount of names and sects and martial techniques and kingdoms in the first 20 pages took me OUT

There's some heft to this, in the grief storyline, that isn't always there in a Cat Sebastian book, and I appreciate it. That's about it - we're doing that thing in romance where both characters know they want each other, and know the other wants them, but they won't get together for Sensible Reasons but they keep being sad about it. Do we do this because we don't know how to write conflict otherwise??

I hope this swerves again real soon because the villain is really, painfully obvious and like. there's too much older millennial angst about being a 30-something. NOT enough magic school!!!

unfortunately the witch hat atelier anime airing while i'm midway through this book has REALLY highlighted why i'm not going bonkers for this. a magic school setting that's really interested in outlining (specifically upper class private) school+curriculum administration and not teacher-student mentorship and care is just. not what hits my buttons. it's neat. but who cares when qifrey and coco are making me cry again

i have another pottery market coming up and need an audiobook while i prep. while i was adding it to GR i had to pause at the blurb!! 'grumpy/sunshine' WHERE?? this is upfront grumpy/socialanxietylackofemotionalregulation'

I'm settling into this one a little better after the structure has been revealed to be getting a lil subversive with it! I'm less interested in the demons and magic and far more interested in the school life side of the building. it's charming!

Took me 2 weeks to read 50 pages :/ it's kind of dumping all of the Scholomance mid-book flavoured exposition at the start. Also fml if Walden's love interest is the magic school cop targeting a bipoc teen girl.

Instead of Wyn being a 6,000 year old eldritch horror monster you could make him a like. Mafia boss or bounty hunter or idk something else Macho and Powerful and absolutely nothing would need to be changed except two lines describing genitals in the sex scenes lmao. If you're gonna give me monsterfuckin make him weird as HELL

There's something, aesthetically, about this that is SO 2000s hot topic anime fandom. Like, monster fucking, but it's not chic with it. And that is nonetheless very charming to me. Anyway I hope it freeks me off.

steeples fingers. i've done my book club reading. time to finally check out lily mayne.

another pick for my sapphic book club and i am tearing through it. gdamn these irish lesbians can write. i am extremely worried about there being something darker about ferdia and children so i had a skim of the reviews and everyone says this is funny so ?????

God why do i love books about absolutely horrible zero chance of survival incidents so much. Why are they so inspirational for pottery sessions

I'm not so deep in the TWOW wait that I'm combing old GRRM books for hints or whatever I see in the bowels of youtube. But it's INTERESTING how much he's reused from this book in ASOIAF! It's cute!

*leo points meme* THE EYRIE

Yaaaaaaay the plot is heeeeere!!!

This is such an odd book. Deceptively dense. A lot is happening on every page but I don't know how to describe the plot, at this point, that's different to where we were at the 15% mark! I had to keep putting it down over traveling Japan because I just needed some punchier reads

i don't want to get too excited but this might fill the hole in my heart left by 'the privilege of the sword' eleven years ago :')

immediately, this is the balm my soul needed after how tedious and mid 'A Lady for a Duke' was. this has CHARM. and FLOURISH.

Would be so nice to read a book about transwomen and their sexuality and love life and not have it all treated with kid gloves. Or fear of tenderqueer twitter pile ons idk. It's just so DULL.

Everything about this book other than the main couple is cute. I have zoned out MULTIPLE times during their solo scenes.

god i can already tell this one is going to be bloated as fuck lmao

oh ms addison, I can't stay mad at you for long, especially when I need a palette cleanser novella

Honestly did not expect we'd get to like, an insane love pentagon in this book. Starling has a crush on Fitz, the Fool transcendentally loves Fitz, Fitz loves Molly, Molly and Burrich are sus 🤨, Kettricken has to manage this for some reason?? Fitz and Kettricken still lowkey have some crazy tension, Kettricken loves Verity, Verity is camping.

the first half of this book was like reading a 300-something page fantasy novel that was just arya acok+asos chapters. now, we're COOKING.

also man what the fuck "If there must be another my fate is twined around, I am glad it is you" sorry how am i NOT supposed to ship it. fantasy authors can't stop themselves from making the het r'ships fucking miserable and the 'same-sex' friendships the most romantic shit.....