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I love Maevyth and Rykaia’s friendship. 😍 Rykaia SO needs a girl bestie and I hope their relationship continues throughout the series.
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I’m loving this book so far and LOVE Anja’s character! We love a sarcastic girlie with a cute poison hyperfixation! 😍 Anyone else getting ND vibes from her?
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Hemlock & Silver
T. Kingfisher
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“When those dying are considered human enough to warrant discussion, discussion must be had. When they’re deemed non human, a discussion becomes offensive, and affront to civility.”
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“The plausibility of such transgression depended on who the system being rebelled against was made to serve. Narrative power, maybe all power, was never about flaunting the rules: yelling at a cop, making trouble. It was about knowing that, for a privileged class, there existed a hard ceiling on the consequences. And on the heels of that realization, a converse one. I began to suspect that the principles holding up this place might not withstand as much as I first thought. That the entire edifice of equality under law and process, of fair treatment, could just as easily be set aside to reward those whose belong, as to punish those who don’t. A hard ceiling for some, no floor for others.”
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So I think I've basically read 99% of all dystopian novels that I know of. Any dystopian recommendations? (for me and for anyone else who loves it or is new to the genre). I feel this genre is not talked about very often even though The Hunger Games for example is a classic example of this genre.
Here's some classics from me that you may or may not have read already 😊 1984 – George Orwell Brave New World – Aldous Huxley Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins Divergent – Veronica Roth The Maze Runner – James Dashner
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Big dumb idiot obsessed with how hot he is. He's not quite a golden retriever like Adolin, but I do kind of want to pat him on the head and say "oh buddy. thank you for contributing." Maybe I haven't gotten far enough into the book, but I'm not opposed to him standing around Zoolander-style looking pretty and getting absolutely dragged around on a leash by anyone with more than a single brain cell. Plus, it's probably not hard to wind him up and point him at a problem and make him think it's all his idea.
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I’m listening to this on audio but I’m very quickly seeing the need to buy a physical copy so that I can read through everything again with a highlighter and notes. And this is coming from someone who never annotates books.
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“And people are killed, as though to be killed is the only natural and rightful ordering of their existence. As though living was the aberration.”
Not even a chapter in and already I’m speechless. What a timely quote.
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
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Overall, this book was good but not great to me. I think it may be partially due to it just not being the right vibe for my current mood. Margaret Rogerson did a beautiful job creating the characters in this story and they are very lovable! The relationships are so wholesome and heartwarming. I truly think if I were more invested in the sorry I would have loved it more.
The first 50% of the book was just a slog for me plot-wise and I had a hard time motivating myself to read it. It doesn’t really pick up until you get past the 50% mark and then it slowly starts to move forward. I felt like the developments in the last section of the book redeemed it for me. Elizabeth’s na ïveté was annoying to me at first but her character development won me over by the end. I personally loved Nathaniel’s character throughout the whole story and I wanted more of him in the book!
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