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A little into cycle 2

In case you were considering it, this book shouldn't be read on a phone.

Grieving the inability to read this on trees who've offered their lives for beautiful books.

That was a lot of exposition.

Sometimes you could do everything right and cruelty would still reign in this life. Sometimes the only thing to do was push on, no matter how terrible the world might become, no matter how much one suffered, never depending on hope but never quite giving up on it either.

This is heart-breaking.

Finished cycle five, really looking forward to see how everything comes together.

Chapter 35 made me want to weep.

"There was no honor in rape. But neither was there honor in making a Man a laughingstock, or denying him the lice he tightly deserved."

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will [rape] them.
(To adapt Margaret Atwood's words.)

Vergis Thane can take his victim-blaming and racism and fuck all the way off. And then he can keep fucking off.

End of Cycle Four.

That was intense and heartbreaking.

:(

Some very powerful moments here, but I can't manage the drive to read more than a couple chapters at once.

Whew, through cycle 4 and shit is going down

This is....not how I thought Denarra would reappear. Interesting.

Some of these story threads are taking a while to pick up steam.