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the following section is SO painful it always makes me loose interest in the book. i just genuinely cannot take the fucking magical crabs.

the writing in this book is absolutely fabulous (the nightmare experience adam and ronan are currently having in cabeswater is decidedly not)

always been a big fan of chapter 45 in this book. always just as horrified.

”I’m tired of it,” Noah said.
”Tired of what?” Gansey asked, voice kind.
”Decaying.”

Uhoh

so fucking excited lets gooo

this already flows a bit nicer than tfc

this book is genuinely so stupid and reads like a fic but i need anything that can distract me from the imminent dread of uni deadlines.

andrew is more bearable and reasonable than i remembered and nicky is significantly more annoying. exy has never interested me so little. i admire nora sakavic for coming up with the most fucked up shit and then just running with it.

"But tonight, under the fluorescent lights of Dollar City, Gansey's hair was scuffed and his cargo shorts were a greasy ruin from mucking over the pig. He was barelegged and sockless in his boat shoes and very clearly a real human, an attainable human, and this, somehow, made Ronan want to smash his fist through a wall."

how the FUCK am i supposed to go on with my stupid life and stupid uni essays reading this

the slight tonal shift from trb is interesting now that i’m reading the books so close to one another… like things suddenly feel a lot more serious

🙈

this is somehow so much more devastating on a reread. Or perhaps I’m just finally old enough to comprehend. I feel so much for Adam, man.

Matchy matchy.

trc reread in 2025 we are SO back

show, don’t tell — i’m BEGGING u sanderson

ah yes. The good stuff.

In all seriousness, I’m not a huge fan of the way in which Socrates makes some pretty serious conclusions based upon very general similes. Just because ’morality’ looks like one thing in a community, it does not necessarily follow that it will appear exactly the same way within an individual. But then again, perhaps Plato left flaws in here on purpose🤷🏼‍♀️

God had to intervene to make sure they got Vin’s likeness right haha

”(…) Still find it amazing that I survived.”
“Perhaps it’s in the blood,” Steris said.

That was a really good one. Steris is really committing to being the funniest character of the bunch lol

Steris😃

Iyatil has an annoying brother on Scadrial? Great

ugh i knew it

choutas on Scadrial? This is the most shocking cosmere connection so far

casual Lord of Scars confirmation. Definitely a lot more anticlimactic than in Rhythm of War since the Ghostbloods are pretty much unknown in Mistborn here… Not sure how to feel about it

also, I don’t care that he’s been alive for a solid 300 years—someone just please get Marsh some more atium