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Aegiopolis Testudo by Gordon Li. Scientists watch two creatures mate.

The Seed by Sheri Singerling. Starts as The Fisherman and His Wife and becomes Body Snatcher or The Ring. Reminds me of Robert Silverberg

Through These Moments, Darkly by Samantha Murray. One of those Hard Sci-Fi stories more focused with physics than a narrative.

Tress’s reckless heroism is beginning to look like self-harm.

The most honorable and noble pirates I’ve ever read.

Does gratitude equate to “love”? Narrator tells us it does.

Heroism: the audacity of Tess barking orders after a few weeks at sea to life-long experience sailors.

It’s a good thing antagonists still write out their evil plans in diaries.

Holt is the same enigmatic character as the Fool, in Hobb’s Farseer books.

Still on this irrelevant sidequest. Tress volunteers for mysterious dangerous job. Captain allows her despite the possibility of destroying the entire ship and everyone in it.

You can skip chapters 8 through 19

Annoys me when ominipotent Narrator/author lectures us and is fundamentally wrong. 10 hours of physical labor is not mentally “freeing.”

Debt unite unlikely creatures.

Also, Anne McCaffrey already thought up this world-building in her famous 1967 book series. I wonder of Sanderson forgot

fast prose. Almost no descriptions. No figurative language. Mostly long narration of actions, which makes it read like a middle grade book.

So, another rescue quest story.

Ch01: exposition of world-building. Ch02: Main Character and her star-crossed lover.

An entire chapter where they prattle about marriage prices.

Never liked these Victorian damsels stories. It’s like Ibsen never happened. — “…desire to claim her as his own…”

Something something duty versus love something something.

Sarkis gets hit with an arrow. Group begins to banter about the arrow.

Banter. Banter. Dnd random encounter.

Rude. — “He’s not really a man, he’s an enchanted sword.”

Oh. This is a romance. — “…sleeping, at the same time, in the same bedroom.”

Halla doesn’t realize she had a selfish thought. — “After this is all over, after I’ve got enough money…I’ll hand him the sword and tell him he’s free to go…”

13 chapters of teenage angst in adults.

Skipping the Harry Potter beginning.

Freedom to Live: “She was meant to leave it. That was only the first chapter of her life.”

Master of Two Worlds. — “…she was still so much bigger than all that. There was an unknown country inside of her.”