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Aaaand its over. Only cried twice! Also everyone who said Mol is better than DG are dirty liars (still excellent tho

"Memories... gone. In their wake, tens of thousands of souls. Silent.
'To me, then, I will take your pain, now?'"

Itkovian my people pleasing king. STOP!! Bro cares about other people so much he's eroding his sense of self in real time :("

“I myself possessed nothing. I simply stole.
To fashion a world for my mother, a world where she could be young once more, where she could live out a normal life, growing old through the normal span of seasons.
All that I stole from her, I would give back.”

Erikson so beautifully captures the guilt daughters face when recognizing in adulthood the personal identity their mothers sacrificed to preserve theirs.

“Am I to be naught but food for my daughter's burgeoning life? A final meal, a mother reduced to nothing more than sustenance? Ah, Silverfox, are you every daughter? Am I every mother?”

While nothing groundbreaking, I was pleasantly surprised by the raw exploration of postpartum depression and motherhood delivered via this arc, by a man in the early 2000s no less.

“Here, among the Tenescowri, there is no obfuscating the brutal truth. Our rulers devour us. They always have. How could I ever have believed otherwise? I was a soldier once. I was the violent assertion of someone else’s will.”

Very topical! Haha… slow start but I’m really starting to enjoy the new cast.

Fellas is it gay to team up with your archrival out of necessity only to realize they’re the one single person that can perfectly match your intellect?

We are so back

I don’t know if I’m liking or disliking this book? It’s a page turner for sure, but a very uncomfortable read on all levels.

“The young woman’s heart hammered with sudden realization.
No, not flies. Crows. Crows, so many crows—
Deep within her, the child stirred.”

This book means so much to me. It was so bleak, but simultaneously so beautiful and compassionate. Erikson has such a talent for not just writing characters, but writing people.

“This tale is yours, Historian, and right now, no-one is more important than you. And if you one day see Dujek, tell him this: it is not the Empire’s soldiers the Empress cannot afford to lose, it is its memory.”

Pretty cool to see Coltaine become a living legend in real time. I can tell is the beginning of the end for him and the 7th though.

“Felisin waited, hoping the life would flee this husk, flee it now, before—
'You ... were ... not what I expected ...'
Armour can hide anything until the moment it falls away. Even a child. Especially a child.”

Somebody actually sedate me.

Didn’t know the rats from 1984 were for hire

But seriously, Felisin is such a compelling character and her story is deeply personal to me

“That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words. Quote me, Duiker, and your work's done.”

So I have a sinking feeling this series is going to emotionally destroy me, and that l'm going to have VERY polarizing opinions on the characters.
I'm finding this read deeply unpleasant, not just because of the sheer amount of graphic violence and suffering, but because of the abject despair and tragedy that seems to hang over each individual character arc.
Still enjoying it though! Just hard to sit with.

Confusing but not sure if it’s in a good way?

I have a sinking feeling this book is going to make me very very sad

Why on earth is this man including a romance at this stage of the book? Feels extremely shoehorned in and insta-lovey without serving any narrative or character purposes…like y’all have known each other for 3 seconds, please chill.

Gay gay gay so gay

“As the Coin spun, thus the city”

Why does it always have to go to incest??

Biochem is literally inescapable because why am I reading about micropipettes???

“I’m sick of oppressing people.” Never EVER did I think I was gonna read that line?????

“Is it a crime to want to be free?” “In this country? Most definitely.”

“I’m going to make an appointment to kill a man.”

"I would die for the truth that all men are created equal. But in the kingdom of death, amidst ramparts of bodies and wind all of screams, there is a king, and his name is not Lune. It is Reaper."

“If I hated him, why did I pull his feet?”