I find it interesting how Damaya refers to it as Father Earth, when, as far as I understand, the earth in their universe never truly settles and is always in motion, constantly wreaking havoc.

“Here is the Stillness, which is not still even on a good day. Now it ripples, reverberates, in cataclysm.”

Before this, I had always seen the general public associate the earth with femininity, hence the term Mother Nature. Even in my own culture, we regard the earth as a mother, because it gives birth to life.

It makes me wonder whether they call it Father Earth because their earth is never gentle to them, unlike the way a mother is often imagined to be. As stated in the prologue:

“…are hard to keep alive when the earth keeps trying to eat them…”

Or perhaps this choice of words is connected to the male figure introduced in the prologue 🤔

What winter sport (or heck, any sport) would you like to see a romance novel written about? Obviously, tons of hockey romances exist, but I’d kill for a curling romance.

Sorry if someone has already made this post since I know its been talked about on other platforms! How do you all feel about predictable twists in books? Not so much like uninspired twists that are common in genres (think "the bad guy is really the good guy") but plot twists that are well foreshadowed and the reader is able to put together what might happen based on clues in the book. I feel like so many people criticize books for having 'predictable' plot twists when the whole point is to tell a story that has enough clues and hints so the reader can try to guess what's going to happen. Otherwise the twists just feels like it comes out of nowhere, at least to me.