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Saoirse is maybe another fav of mine

another week, another crack at this book

truly the best one so far

Gabe needs to stop chattering and get back with the story

look, especially in a book with illustrations, people aren't gonna keep forgetting what characters look like we don't need paragraphs of "reminding" descriptions

bounce-around storytelling like this works okay in a film/tv show but not great in a book

'In a quiet prison cell high in the midst of a solemn keep, the Last Silversaint reached to refill his glass.'

it's a little thing but they keep adding up—we already know where he's been the whole time, why keep reminding?? the book isn't THAT big

"More prostitute humor," Jean-François sighed. "How very droll."

having an "oh haha isn't this ANNOYING right??" character to try and levy the shitty narrator tone does not make good writing

omg this discussion of "feminism" does not a feminist make

'A life without books is a life not lived.'

look just because it's a book you don't HAVE to have a character walk into a library and worship books like it's a religion okay where are my book hating characters please

oh now suddenly we're Scottish in here using the word "ken" what happened to all the "oui" and "ma famille"

'the mouth of a she-devil on the rag'

see, just when I maybe start appreciating this book, it pulls something like this and I'm right back to where I started which is dislike

totally called there being a fifth bloodline

for all this talk about being made from a dead cock . . . how COULD they be made if the cock is, well, dead???

need me some science behind these vampire spawn plz

there are times like now, when the fucks and sexual tone is mostly gone, that I see glimpses of the actual good writer that JK could be and where I'm actually genuinely fascinated with the story

literally typed in "my family" and set to replace it with "ma famille" and it just reads ODD

'cityforts'

bruh you can just say they're cities please stop smashing two or three words together to create ta daaaa a new word!!

weirdest most unclever way to "study"

"They made a lion of you. They made a legend. A foe even the Forever King learned to fear."

my god we KNOW he's the speshul main man we do not need a constant reminder like this

the amount of times each chapter ends with the word "fuck" in some way is . . . too much

blood-sucking via genitals is not sexy

why do all of these scenes read like too many cliches piled atop one another?

BACK ON THIS RIDE gosh I know I'm a fast reader but this massive book makes me feel slow

Gabe is a maelstrom of hypocrisy as a personality

it's only through a 2am internet binge of looking up ALL the different ways men call the genitals to cackle over it with my youngest brother that I know what all these words mean . . . but even if I didn't I can guess

"Ah. Prostitute humor.

me, opening literally any JK book

wait his sword is alive??

ugh not the drawn out descriptions of this poor horse being hurt

NO NOT THE HORSE BEING HURT HATE THAT NO NO NO NO

just realized every time my boy Jean-Francois is like "no no say it like you would to a child" that's meaning us, the readers, and yeah don't like that