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Evelyn
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So far this isn't what I was looking forward to it being... The characters have like 1 personality trait each, which means their POV chapters are always the same. Sometimes I feel like the chapters are just repeating themselves. Lines definitely repeat "This is how it happened" "This was history" "This was-" 🙄 the attempt to be profound but it's just repetitive + some takes in here lack some necessary nuance
— Jul 28, 2025 08:35PM
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Evelyn
is on page 192 of 375
"He remembered Beijing and a rising sun" I'm only a few pages past the last mention.....
— Jul 29, 2025 09:12PM
Evelyn
is on page 188 of 375
"Will thought of Beijing, of how the pale morning light had fallen on the ruins of the Old Summer Palace" NOT AGAIN. It would be a dangerous game to take a shot every time the sun/light was mentioned in this book. Two shots every time the sun over the Old Summer Palace is thought about. I swear to god think of something else.
— Jul 29, 2025 09:00PM
Evelyn
is on page 170 of 375
Oh my god how many times are we gonna read "remembered the sun as it rose over the Old Summer Palace" or the variant "how the sun rose over Beijing". 170 pages in and it's already been said so many times....
— Jul 29, 2025 06:53PM
Evelyn
is on page 166 of 375
"It might always be like this, the two of them facing each other with knives drawn"
"Alex," Irene said, and it was a sigh... "Can we work together this one time?"
Oh my god insufferable how Irene is acting like they both had mutual issues with each other from the start, when she was literally the only one being openly hostile.... no shit Alex is hostile back now. But now it's "*sigh* we always fight" 😔 YEAH??
— Jul 29, 2025 06:46PM
"Alex," Irene said, and it was a sigh... "Can we work together this one time?"
Oh my god insufferable how Irene is acting like they both had mutual issues with each other from the start, when she was literally the only one being openly hostile.... no shit Alex is hostile back now. But now it's "*sigh* we always fight" 😔 YEAH??
