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with friends like these, who needs enemies?

Ah, Isengard.

I am reminded of comics where the superheroes powers change potency from issue to issue.

wow, clarification on a scene that happened 6 books ago. really had to stretch my memory

another little bread crumb..

honestly, Fitz could go ashore for a second, Skill, and then come back.

ah, the old won’t-tell-them-yet plot device.

Really wish English didn’t have this homonym. This sentence was very confusing.

not for the first time, I have thought the same. - “I thought we were past all this,” he said softly.

something odd about chapter twelve. paragraphs are more abrupt than before and disorienting

ugh. Fitz revisiting and reopening old conflicts.

This makes it the third time that the Fool lectures Fitz about this.

all this prophecy stuff has me guessing. I’m thinking the dragons will destroy the city. I’m thinking the servants plan to destroy the dragons to avoid the dragons destroying them. It’s a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, but those are always good. Just look at Oedipus.

I don’t know. It seems odd to me how Fitz says he loves the fool, cares for the fool, trusts the fool, and then will conceal things for no good reason.

Oh, fun! I wondered if we would see this happen. I like Ogden’s writing decisions.

A minority would never talk to a police officer this way. Good lord..

Time to find the audiobook and put it on 2x…

book sort of contradicts itself

So the plan was to grab papers from his desk? Sure hope he leaves important documents sprawled out in public. Also, who prints out emails?

A joke for television put into a book.

It’s like that hitch hicker episode of the twilight zone

what a nice surprise.too bad its at the 90% mark

This and the last book’s theme, it seems. — “…I was unexpectedly saddled with two idiots.”

yesterday, I said to myself that the only place left unexplored is Jamaillia. — “…on to Bingtown and then Jamaillia…”

Fun little summaries of each character, including Fleeter, the horse.

Funny part is that in the first book Fitz barely gave Bee a thought and now he’s having childish meltdowns over her.

But Vindeliar is there…

Oh, good. For a second there I thought the conflict was resolved.

all that and he only got an hour or two head-start? He left 12 hours before them. How did they catch up?

Fitz is sixty and so childish. He is going to take an entire company of soldiers to die because he wants his eight year old to see him as her rescuer.