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cuckleberryfins


Nobody told me these books would make me cry

There are certain characters I would die for

10/3/2020
He's perfect flawless amazing completely original never been seen before

6/9/18

HELLO I LOVE THIIIISSSSS

MALE MC IN YA FANTASY

NO ROMANCE (on page. I ship it tho)

JUST ADVENTURE.

not gay btw. kinda sad about that. you can tell my Sapho wasn't gay but also greek poet Sappho super gay. coincidence????? I think not.

PLOT TWISTS I WAS NOT EXPECTING.

I LOVE PAUL AND GEN AND EVERYTHING OK

10/5/20
God this book is fucking perfect

6/19/18
I am distressed

10/6/20

You know what? Five stars. I love Sopphos so much

6/20/18

Tbh what could live up to the king of attolia

10/7/20
F I V E S T A R S
also like. I know its not canon but I ship it. They're in love. They kiss

6/25/18
what do I do now? just wait like another 5 years for the next book to come out?
I just?? I love them so much??? I want more. more of Eugenides and Irene. more of Costis. more of all of them. I'm genuinely hurt by the lack of more books help

I'm gonna cry I loved it so much

I really wanted to love this because the world building was amazing and the story stepped up from book 1. BUT.

Vai is easily the best character in this duology but the way he was handled seemed extremely transphobic. He was constantly misgendered when he explicitly told people he was a man. There was a whole arc about Vai being forced to become a man by his parent??? And I just hated it so much. It could have been handled so well??? We could have had that GOOD GAY SHIT and we got this?? I wish Vai's gender hadnt been used as a plot point. It was gross.

It was fine. I kept waiting for it to get more exciting but it never really did. It was told like an old epic. V passive. Also kinda mad about what I wanted for some characters who deserved better.

I assumed that since it followed 2 characters who wanted different things for the empire that they'd both have points and want some good things and some not good things but it was very black and white.

Also the women that were introduced just kept dying???