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Please tell me this is not the shitty YA dystopia this is shaping up to be. I'd be so disappointed 🥲

This is so bad. If I didn't have an ARC, I'd dnf immediately lol

Reads like a collection of edgy Reddit stories with a good measure of misogyny sprinkled in. Sadly it's an ARC, otherwise I'd dnf immediately.

Wow this really wasn't good at all

Pausing this for the time being. Probably dnf'ing the series

That was FAR too long

Loving it. The writing style of the translation is really beautiful and engaging. I'm totally sold.

Switched to the audiobook. So painfully slow, but the actual plot points are cool at least. I can't really read currently cause I'm so overwhelmed and audio during my commute is the only way to go for me right now

This is really very boring so far. I don't want to dnf two books in a row, but I expected something really cool. The Unworthy did the cramped monastery setting so much better and so much more viscerally that this feels YA in comparison.

I'm dnf'ing. I don't care for this book AT ALL. It's so surprisingly uninsightful and I'm simply bored by supposed feminism through inaction. I would've never thought I'd dislike this book, but here we are

[insert the "finally, some good fucking food" meme]

I AM FINALLY FREE FROM THIS FUCKASS BOOK OH LORD

This is...not good so far lol. I think R.F. Kuang might be a hack actually🧍‍♀️

A kingdom for a more headstrong editor

This reads so much like Don't Let the Forest In, but not in a good way. It's not AS overwritten, but the prose is, again, repetitive and the imagery flat. The characters are also super similar to Drews' previous novel. Both teenage boys are beautiful, suffering, feminine; Evander's thinness is often in focus. It reads like the steel-engraving lady projected on gay teens, and I find that genuinely weird.