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Slatter gives us an fmc who isn’t 19, fresh-faced and naive. She’s in her fifties, raging through menopausal hot flashes and none too pleased with the effects of gravity on her aging form. I love that Mehrab realistically shows us resentment of her own aging, jealousy of youthful beauty (Rhea), and pettiness. But she is self-aware and reminds herself (and readers) not to let these emotions rule her.
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Nautica Western
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I love you, gothic fairytales. I love you, witch in the woods. I love you, menopausal fmc who is not even close to through with her adventure. I love you, female found family. I love you, complex nuanced characters with irredeemable human (and not-so-human) flaws. I love you, open ending.
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“How boys grow into fathers who think they must tell their sons that softness is weakness, even though they miss it like a limb. Instead of saying, ‘I’ll not do what was done to me, I did not like it’ they repeat [..] that awful cutting of heart from soul on their own sons.”
— 5 hours, 59 min ago
Nautica Western
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Mehrab, girl, the blacksmith you’re fucking literally wandered into the village one night all busted with no memory of his previous life… cannot possibly be unrelated
— Jul 13, 2026 01:36PM
Nautica Western
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I tried to read this to go to sleep last night but I got scared and had to unwind with dog videos on my phone
— Jul 13, 2026 08:15AM
Nautica Western
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I was wondering if Mehrab had considered that her pregnancies from Faolan miscarried, as well… so it may be a *her* thing, not a *tree baby* thing
— Jul 12, 2026 05:46PM
Nautica Western
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“A child who became a murderer rather than a victim- and that’s a heavy burden, for women are taught to be victims first.”
— Jul 11, 2026 09:37PM
Nautica Western
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“I offer no chains, I will take whatever crumb you’re prepared to give.”
— Jul 11, 2026 09:36PM
Nautica Western
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“… a thing that’s as much a prayer as a spell (I’ve never been entirely sure of the difference between the two).”
— Jul 11, 2026 11:21AM
Nautica Western
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“The church’ll tell you their Lord created the heavens and earth in seven days, but that seems unlikely to me. Takes a woman nine months to gestate… I think that’s just men trying to one-up everything when they know full well they can’t birth anything but ideas.”
— Jul 04, 2026 06:48PM