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So Mercy has one tattoo and these covers are gross fetishization of her American Indian heritage. Making her sexy pose against the backdrop of the petroglyphs from the book is egregious and the publisher should feel bad.

“He’ll be fine,” is definitely the most badass thing Mercy has said thus far.

Oooh, somebody’s punk ass is going to get eaten by a rusalka and it’s about time.

This is incredibly powerful and also I want to slap her parents with a dead fish. Like, decaying.

Not super comfortable with Harkness’ comparing persecution of Jews to fantasy persecution of “creatures.”

We have reached the point in the historical fiction where the reader’s knowledge of the historical narrative induces physical pain. Sorry, brah, you had your thirty seconds of happiness.

THIS IS THE BLOOD ROYAL CAST OF CHARACTERS!! This gonna be good.

"How would you like to kiss my ass for a big red apple and then not get it?"

I missed you, Lucian!

I am feeling pretty damn good about my singleness right about now.

I was ready for that body to hit the floor, but I am NOT READY FOR THIS FFWD.

Pick a place to die where it's high and dry.

This book is extremely soothing in these Orwellian later days.

Dammit, Graham! This is not the time!

Oh, Dwight.

Would someone please hit Ossie with a blunt object already?

Next season is going to be BANANAS.

What a fucking pair of snakes. You know what? I hope that egg in their nest doesn't belong to them if you know what I mean. You do and you agree.

I need a cold compress. I need some port. I need to go back in time and read less everything so I can't see into the plot future of everything I pick up. This is too much.

I KNEW IT! Ugh. But I so knew it.

First of all, Winston, HOW DARE YOU.

I got this arc and I'll be honest. I didn't have high hopes. But let me tell you. Byrne has packed in the high drama here.

Mistaken identities! Missing sex workers! Confused highlanders! Typhus! Blackmail! Secret pasts! WIG SNATCHING!

Hell. Yes.

THIS IS EFFING STRESSFUL.

There needs to be an IRB process for publishers who just CHANGE their narrators like it's NOTHING and it doesn't MATTER to the lunatics who listen to their books.

How did we know that this plan would work? We had a guy on the inside!

Will any of us ever read about the American Revolution without Lin Manuel Miranda accompanying? No.

LAFAYETTE WAS WAITING IN CHESAPEAKE BAY!

Do you like unsympathetic ne'er-do-well narrators? Long sea voyages? Death? Mayhem? SPLINTERED WOOD THROUGH THE EYE?

Have I got a book for YOU.