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Sera Swan’s
cute name like Mika Moon 🥰
British Guild of Sorcery
this is not the same universe as the other book??
“Well. Well. Did it hurt? When you fell out of whichever Norse myth you came from?”
😂 where can I find crazy people like these?
It seemed at first glance like ridiculous theatre, unnecessary and a bit silly, but at the heart of it, weren’t they just a handful of people trying to be good to one another?
the handsome icicle
😂
It was the purest love Luke had ever seen.
you haven't met Sad Boy and Lola!
what was history if not a collection of stories to make the incomprehensible comprehensible?
And what she saw, for the first time, was not ugliness at all but pain so enormous and consuming that it had felt like dying.
I’m sorry, she said silently to her past self. I’m sorry I hated you. I’m sorry I wasn’t kinder. All the shame that had been tangled up in the memory was annihilated, leaving only compassion and regret in its place.
and now I'm crying
“You sit up here pretending to decide what’s best for everybody, but you’re really just deciding what’s best for you and your families.
take that, patriarchy
“And you need to repatriate all the looted artefacts you have in your private library,”
take that, colonialism!
How does she grow and transform over the course of the story?
I liked how, while Mika's story was a very personal one, Sera's story didn't end with the return of her magic, she was the person to change the system. she wanted that more than she wanted her magic. she was able to do that by coming to the realization that her magic doesn't define her
