I came into this book blind. I had heard it was good but nothing outside of it being dark academia with magic. But that doesn’t do it justice. It’s magic, it’s power, it’s how we use words and what they mean to the people we say them to. It’s the voices that say them and what they truly mean. 

Words can, and should change the world. 

I am also now convinced that R. F. Kuang can not write a bad book, even if she tried.