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I like this so far, actually, but the characterization of 6/Sybil is weird to me. The reader is told that she was the best diviner, the abbesses favorite, truly believed in all the stuff, which to me would imply a more “goody two shoes/teachers per” type of character, but we don’t really see her acting like that throughout this first chunk of the book here.
— Mar 15, 2026 09:29AM
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Grace Peck
is on page 192 of 385
I think one my issues with some fantasy, or specificity this author, as a primarily historical fiction reader is that I’m not given enough details on the culture and the customs of these worlds to make them feel real. Any civilization with a government and a ruling class, from the courts of Europe to the Kuge in Japan have extensive cultural rules and practices, and when you write a fantasy world that doesn’t-
— Mar 15, 2026 12:57PM
Grace Peck
is on page 174 of 385
weird to me that the diviners are allowed to have sex with visitors. This might be my historical fiction brain ruining this, I think of them as nuns or vestal virgins, who famously could face dire consequences for having sex, but this is a fantasy novel so yes it’s different- but if the point is that the abbess is controlling them, would it not make sense for the diviners to have not be allowed that freedom?
— Mar 15, 2026 09:35AM
