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ummmm if i liked it less i’d be able to talk about it more OR_WHAT_EVERRRRRRR i need to reread the entire series stat because i’m only a quarter gripfull over what even happened…..my truth is that i have dnf’ed gtn like 5 times over the past 4 years, primarily due to the humor + dense worldbuilding + overwhelming cast of characters, but was inexplicably struck with openheartedness in august and was finally able to make it past their canaan house arrival for the first time.
like–me in oct 2021: gideon was unlikeable, harrow was unlikeable, i can't remember any other character except the weird twins....someone pls tell me what they see in this book bc i'm not seeing the vision.
OPINION REVERSEDDDDDDDD except for the “weird twins” comment.....why YES I WAS STILL IMMEDIATELY SNIPED IN THE HEAD BY THE WEIRD TWINS! in fact i was an ianthe akgae all throughout and was dreadfully obsessed with the corona/ianthe explicit_to_my_eyes twincest AND corona/ianthe/babs hateful loyal soldier loved by no one x charming but useless JACKIETAYLORCOMPLEXED sister x sordid power hungry and murderously possessive other sister triangulation AND ianthe/harrow annoying pigtail pulling crush x repulsion sisterlyctorhood. i loved IANTHE and IANTHE’S SHENANIGANS only <3 thank you for all the horror and the laffs <3
other notable favorites: campal codependent bodysharing (pal passing camilla a kiss on her knuckles through nona…..are you facking kidding me), sweet sweet nona and cam/nona/pyrrha's polycule_of_Grief, and isaac & jeannemary my little baby child soldiers who died for naught T__T
i did fail to gaf about griddlehark throughout gtn but the posthumous introspection of their relationship in htn via harrow’s lobotomy and “Harrowhark, I gave you my whole life and you didn't even want it” moved me for real ngl…..htn was my least favorite reading experience out of the three, 95% of it was a struggle to understand and i didn’t even have the brainspace to pay attention to the og lyctors when most of the story was already wafting out my grasp, but now in retrospect i think it’s a brilliant piece of work and blows the other two out of the water, just from the prose and suspense and character work alone. i completely glazed over the sleeper/wake/dios apate major/BoE plotlines though, which caused me to follow very little of nona…..again i think i need to reread the books at least twice more to wrap my head around the lore and plot.
so many incredible quotes and passages i could c+p here but i'll just leave you all with my favorite observation of ianthe:
You had been watching Ianthe. She could not bear meetings, or any kind of organised activity where she might be forced to deal with anyone else’s opinion, which you found strange considering that she had spent her entire life at the hip of her twin sister. She was sitting in her chair with her pallid arm crossed across the shiny gold of her skeleton one, both framed hideously against the coalescing rainbow whites of her robe. Her hair fell in thin, straight sheets over her shoulders, and she rested the back of her head against the chair-back as though she might nap at any moment. She looked to you; you looked away quickly, but you had been caught watching.
Lately you found yourself praying that the traitor was not Ianthe, all the while having seen for yourself the living Coronabeth in the arms of Blood of Eden: the twin who, as far as you could tell, was the only human being Ianthe loved more than herself. For the sake of this sister Ianthe had held your gaze while sliding a knife through the palm of your hand.
ummmm if i liked it less i’d be able to talk about it more OR_WHAT_EVERRRRRRR i need to reread the entire series stat because i’m only a quarter gripfull over what even happened…..my truth is that i have dnf’ed gtn like 5 times over the past 4 years, primarily due to the humor + dense worldbuilding + overwhelming cast of characters, but was inexplicably struck with openheartedness in august and was finally able to make it past their canaan house arrival for the first time.
like–me in oct 2021: gideon was unlikeable, harrow was unlikeable, i can't remember any other character except the weird twins....someone pls tell me what they see in this book bc i'm not seeing the vision.
OPINION REVERSEDDDDDDDD except for the “weird twins” comment.....why YES I WAS STILL IMMEDIATELY SNIPED IN THE HEAD BY THE WEIRD TWINS! in fact i was an ianthe akgae all throughout and was dreadfully obsessed with the corona/ianthe explicit_to_my_eyes twincest AND corona/ianthe/babs hateful loyal soldier loved by no one x charming but useless JACKIETAYLORCOMPLEXED sister x sordid power hungry and murderously possessive other sister triangulation AND ianthe/harrow annoying pigtail pulling crush x repulsion sisterlyctorhood. i loved IANTHE and IANTHE’S SHENANIGANS only <3 thank you for all the horror and the laffs <3
other notable favorites: campal codependent bodysharing (pal passing camilla a kiss on her knuckles through nona…..are you facking kidding me), sweet sweet nona and cam/nona/pyrrha's polycule_of_Grief, and isaac & jeannemary my little baby child soldiers who died for naught T__T
i did fail to gaf about griddlehark throughout gtn but the posthumous introspection of their relationship in htn via harrow’s lobotomy and “Harrowhark, I gave you my whole life and you didn't even want it” moved me for real ngl…..htn was my least favorite reading experience out of the three, 95% of it was a struggle to understand and i didn’t even have the brainspace to pay attention to the og lyctors when most of the story was already wafting out my grasp, but now in retrospect i think it’s a brilliant piece of work and blows the other two out of the water, just from the prose and suspense and character work alone. i completely glazed over the sleeper/wake/dios apate major/BoE plotlines though, which caused me to follow very little of nona…..again i think i need to reread the books at least twice more to wrap my head around the lore and plot.
so many incredible quotes and passages i could c+p here but i'll just leave you all with my favorite observation of ianthe:
You had been watching Ianthe. She could not bear meetings, or any kind of organised activity where she might be forced to deal with anyone else’s opinion, which you found strange considering that she had spent her entire life at the hip of her twin sister. She was sitting in her chair with her pallid arm crossed across the shiny gold of her skeleton one, both framed hideously against the coalescing rainbow whites of her robe. Her hair fell in thin, straight sheets over her shoulders, and she rested the back of her head against the chair-back as though she might nap at any moment. She looked to you; you looked away quickly, but you had been caught watching.
Lately you found yourself praying that the traitor was not Ianthe, all the while having seen for yourself the living Coronabeth in the arms of Blood of Eden: the twin who, as far as you could tell, was the only human being Ianthe loved more than herself. For the sake of this sister Ianthe had held your gaze while sliding a knife through the palm of your hand.