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Aaaaand the killing begins.

50% of all content in the book concerns itself with identifying the expensive branded goods that people are wearing.

I was warned of the initial barrier, and here it is: an insurmountable wall of rambling and late 80s materialism jargon.

Okay... so the staunchly-traditional and reclusive brown people of the desert just up and decided to have 2 complete foreign strangers/outsiders take over their 2 primary public offices of Shaman and Voice of the Tribes?

I did not expect Pierce to embrace the tired cliche of white people always being better and more suitable at the native's own jobs than the natives themselves.

I've been told this will be... an adventure.

Not feeling this. This is more like a spinoff, and a poor one at that.

Obvious secret villain is obvious as hell.

Book 3, and all I can think of when reading that dreadful title is the 'dude look like a lady' song.

Sutcliff seems to like narratives where the protagonists are fugitives. Still, I like that this one has a lot more 'being Roman' than The Eagle.

I didn't expect to find relatability in a book such as this, and yet here it is.

Wow... it's kind of a shame they went full retard with the film.

Found this little gem at Elizabeth's.

An experience made so much more epic by the beauty of the Folio edition.

Wow. Pat Rothfuss could have used these as a reference, because Johann Dietz is, at times, not unlike a Renaissance incarnation of Kvothe.

How novel - a pious playboy.

By all accounts he had near-orgiastic encounters during his first campaign as a young teenager, and all the ladies wanted his D.

I guess that kind of explains the amount of religious glorification in his memoirs.

Also laughing at how he blamed Satan and the evils of women for 'making' him fuck around with girls in haylofts and attics.

How many times did this guy fall through the ice!?

So shit's getting pretty real now. I don't see the point of this being in the same universe as Graceling though. Aside from a single character, they have precious little held in common.

An interesting insight into the scariness unwanted male attention, directed towards attractive females... albeit somewhat ham-fisted and not entirely believable.

So... about 5% of all living organisms in this book are fabulously-coloured variants of the usual, and want to kill everything...?

I can't un-see the fact that the cover looks like a gritty Brave cosplay.

What am I doing, why am I reading this? I has exam tomorrow.

Not even 10 pages in and already there's references to being chained or tied up!

Okay! So there's a fairly consistent rhythm of covert action, steaming liaisons, and some situational BDSM whose frequency can't possibly be coincidence.

Not sure how I feel about Cahil being a douche, but I guess it's better than him being lover-boy of book 2?

I'm actually liking this one a lot more, even though I was told that this and the one that follows are supposedly quite inferior to Poison Study.

The scenes where she learns her magic craft are pretty entertaining! I'm reminded of the sympathy lessons in Name of the Wind.