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“What happened to your shoulder?” I ask.
“It is a mere battle wound,” she replies.

Monty Python reference?

“To control languages, to control words, is to control what people know.”

This is sort of putting me in a reading slump, I'm not gonna lie

This is so on the nose it's kinda killing me, but I can look past it for the sake of political activism

Oh my gosh it just hit me that this is a take on the codebreakers from the allied side of WWII

So Slavidraneishá is just Russian.

“People shouldn’t fear their prime ministers, Vivien,” he says. “Prime ministers should fear their people.”

This escalated so fast oh my gosh. Nice to see that the dystopic uprising theme is still going strong in YA!

"Every act of translation requires sacrifice — it is this harsh truth that made me fall in love. There exists no direct correlation between the words of one language and another, and no translation can be entirely faithful to its original."

So one of the settings is called 'Marylebone,' and all I could think of was Melbourne, Australia. Now they all have Aussie accents.

The UK cover is soooooo much better