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Stheo

Multireader, procrastinating on my own writing, love a grey story but often get trapped in black and white opinions

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Universe Quest: Lord of the Rings & Tolkien's Legendarium
Asian-inspired Fantasy
Fantasy and Sci-Fi with a Side of Romance
My Taste
Harrow the Ninth
Railhead
The Jasmine Throne
The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice, #1)
Dread Nation (Dread Nation, #1)
Reading...
Daughter of Crows
6%
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
45%
After the Forest
0%
The Shadow Rising
38%

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    Water Moon
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 2.0Plot: 3.5

    I’m very torn in my love and grief over this book. I fell in love with this world more so than the characters. So much that I’m deeply disappointed to have to end the book and say goodbye to it. I find myself dreaming of a different plot and of undiscovered regions that the book never explored. Of different endings where different choices were taken. And isn’t that magical? It’s great to find a book that makes you think and leaves you with questions. At the same time I wish I cared for the central characters more, and that they felt less hollow to me than the world. It’s hard to resoundingly love the book when I never really understood the character we were following through it. Because of that division I also feel the ending really disappointed me: I want to know how things worked out for the world more than for the central characters. I feel a bit cheated of the actual answers I cared about that had to do with the social strata of the world and how it might be upended. But hey it’s a romance at the end of the day and I can’t ask it to be what it’s not.

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    What would your choice be?

    Love books that bring up a question for the reader - like what choice would you trade away in the magical pawn shop for peace of mind?

    I instantly knew mine would be Florence - if I’d gone to study painting at uni like I wanted instead of going to England to study literature like my parents wanted. It was 15 years ago but I still wonder how totally different my life would be, the different friends I’d have, the different place I’d live now if I’d taken that path instead. It would be so nice to let that go.

    What about you guys?

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