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"Since you will soon be dead, I may as well tell you everything."

[hahahahaha yep this queen went to supervillain school]

[spoiler] was sweet gao and lotus tea. She was moonlight and new snow. I laughed a little, and she did too. My heart soared, and I kissed her back. Nobody had ever taught me how. I just did. Maybe it was only natural, an act every girl in Tensha was born knowing how to do.

[this book had up to this point not thrown me any curveballs but I DID NOT EXPECT DOOMED LESBIANISM]

"The ancient poets* say that when we look at the same moon as the ones we love, our hearts are connected through heaven, no matter how far away we are."

[*James Ingram and Linda Ronstadt, "Somewhere Out There"]

He was... is... brilliant. That is no exaggeration [...] Terren was exceptional. We did not know it for a long time. "My brother is the cleverest," Maro kept telling us, but none of us believed him. How could we, when the prince spoke little, hid often.

[not *super* psyched about a sadistic autistic-coded prince in a world of amoral faggoty eunuchs, despite knowing a bunch of people who fit the brief in real life]

[yikes the wooden-ness of Eric Yang, the male narrator, is intolerable]