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Immaculate prose, lovely characters, with just the right amount of warmth and hardship.
Perhaps I’m romanticizing it, but the properness and dialogue has me smitten. I think Kate (and Eve) are great characters.
I also love how sharply observant and how insightful the story is on interpersonal relationships and restraint and properness. The little etiquettes that convey so much.
— Jul 05, 2026 05:17PM
Perhaps I’m romanticizing it, but the properness and dialogue has me smitten. I think Kate (and Eve) are great characters.
I also love how sharply observant and how insightful the story is on interpersonal relationships and restraint and properness. The little etiquettes that convey so much.
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Tin
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I like the distance of getting the excitement through Kate’s more unremarkable perspective. I think the relationships are interesting: Eve does the girlboss thing but isn’t toxic, Anne is very shrewd but not malicious, and Kate’s the one caught in it.
I think the theme of being changed by the city is also well capture especially in Kate’s progression.
— 10 hours, 10 min ago
I think the theme of being changed by the city is also well capture especially in Kate’s progression.
Tin
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Brilliant! What sticks out is how privileged it feels and in an interesting way. Like Kate’s getting fed up with it, Wallace’s guilt and joining the army, as well as Eve’s adapting to it and Tinker’s riches to rags to riches.
I also found Kate’s and Eve’s relationship interesting; basically sisters who hardly see each other now that Eve’s been whisked away.
Also the dialogue is sharp and elegant.
— Jul 06, 2026 05:34PM
I also found Kate’s and Eve’s relationship interesting; basically sisters who hardly see each other now that Eve’s been whisked away.
Also the dialogue is sharp and elegant.