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i'm starting with murderbot bc it's short
then king in yellow bc spooky season
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76 pgs in already (!!!) and i can tell why this must be her most successful series
it's very brisk and accessible so far (no like worldbuild concepts to work with - more inward-facing than outward like bones or witch king)
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feels like the serial tv mc o so loves
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i don't love the first person writing of this but it's also not bad either
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it's just not as enthralling as the immersion bones/witch king gave me, but we'll see! we have only Just Begun
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whew! finished murderbot. very brisk, speedy. good start! not super compelling but it's definitely a setup for more fun, so i'll give the other ones a try c:
ghost lecturer
elle slaughtering her reading list
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murdering it one might say
whimsea
yeah it's just a very different style, i love diving into world building, murderbot i enjoy more as audio novels fwiw
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it DOES read like it'd be good to hear a narrator deadpan it
whimsea
yep, it gets around what i don't enjoy about first person
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160ish pages into the king in yellow and i'm enjoying it! i like horror vignettes - little morsels of "ooh" without too much introspection - just enough to use as a jumping-off point
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some of it is a bit tough to chew, but given the age of this thing that isn't really unexpected
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i did expect more like
you know
tentacleyking in yellow shit
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but its more like "jimmy downstairs bought this book and now i'm craaaAAAAAAAaazy" n shit like that
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hell the one about the shelling of paris didn't even REFERENCE the play!!!
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i liked the time traveling boyfriend one best so far in any case
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12 pages left and I truly don't know what to make of this book lmao
The latest tale was about some boring ass Protestant moving to France and falling for a bohemian girl who is ashamed to love him bc she fucks
I guess this is true horror in the 1860s
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There wasn't even mention of the play
Bro what is this
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i've shelved king in yellow on the last story bc i'm already sick to death of cunty little french painters and their fainting ladies
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maybe the french were the real horror
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im gonna start one dark window next
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got my librarby card c:
noted a few things i may wanna pull once im done with all the things i blew my money on...but the moneyspending MUST CEASE....
(it will. just in time to ask for a bunch of books for christmas. whee)
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one dark window is giving very much goth card captor sakura
neat so far, just 100pgs in
i hope mc smooches the nightmare creature in her brain
doll's eyes 👁️
Oh that's a fun description
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ya! a deck of magic cards that can dispel some evil all-consuming mist in this kingdom
girlie has one of the cards' essence stuck in her brain, it's feral
ghost lecturer
I remember being interested in the setup for that one
elle?????
good god this book is so zutara-coded (affectionate)
i swear i wouldve made this book my personality in high school/college lmao
i'm having fun tho, it's good schlock
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hahaaaa that went feral in the end, that was fun
i'll read the 2nd book for sure
i hope the pivot from 1st to 3rd person stays
elle?????
city of brass is rad
chakraborty writes really good lady protags, nahri is a fun mc
im 313 pgs thru and enjoying the setup a lot
my homie nahri just wants to steal shit, beset by djinn trifles and blood feuds smh
doll's eyes 👁️
yeeees
doll's eyes 👁️
Nahri just like HELLO I SIGNED UP FOR 0% OF THIS???
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nahri said "i just wanted to do crimes and hang w my old man homie....not that i mind the spa treatment BUT PLS"
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city of brass rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that was fun! that was my shit!
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i think of this batch my faves in descending:
city of brass
all systems red
one dark window
king in yellow
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