I just finished Kingdom of Ash yesterday and apparently decided I hadn’t suffered enough, so here I am starting CC 😭

This world already feels SO different from ToG/ACOTAR. I’m 2% in and being handed angel hierarchies, Asteri politics, governors,…

I’m trying to trust the process, but my brain is buffering.

Please comment something that won’t make sense yet but will emotionally destroy me later 👀 (or a quote I need to come back to)

I’ve seen so many people dislike this book in its reviews. I think the endnote is something everyone should read for this book. It talks about the author’s intentions with writing the book.

The Mahabharata is an epic that is over 1.8 million words so the people who are saying the story felt rushed, I fear there is no way to not make this story feel well-paced because even here, there are many people and subplots that were not conveyed.

I need people to think about this like a fanfic bc that’s what a retelling kinda is. So you should understand the original before starting and don’t be mad when the story follows the same plot of the Mahabharata.

The book introduces about 30 characters give or take but I didn’t have trouble keeping them in line. I reccommend drawing a family tree when they introduce characters cause many people feel it’s too hard to grasp the characters.

I reccommend getting accustomed with the Mahabharata story in general before reading because this book is almost a summary of it but you might not grasp it without any prior knowledge. The author says that she wanted the book to follow the story but highlight Ganga without changing it too much so I sort of despise the people who didn’t like the plot, because that’s the plot of the original epic. And further, the author says she wanted to focus on Ganga and how she sort of ripple affected the entire Mahabharata. So to all the people who didn’t like how many chapters weren’t from her perspective, I fear that might be the point is that she did so little in human form, but her choices haunted the entire story.

Hi friends, happy Friday! Hope y'all had a safe and chill week, and if not (or even if you did!), I hope you take the weekend to rest and read!

We're at the end of February (!!!), so today's Bookworm Question is: What were your favorite reads in February? And what are you most looking forward to picking up in March?

The one thing I am super impressed with by T. Kingfisher’s writing is that she is an expert at capturing her readers. It could be characters or settings or descriptions. Whatever ever it is she doe nails it. Her words reach out from the page and grab you by the neck, daring you not to keep reading. This has made Kingfisher my unofficial reading slump buster. She captures me and pulls me along for whatever crazy ride she is taking you on.

This reads very macho dude and I am not feeling it. Still gonna read it for the badge.