House of Sky and Breath

I truly cannot explain the hold SJM books have on me. The world building is so shaky and yet so horny. Every single character has been engineered to have the most tragic backstory and yet also the most special abilities, which have to be constantly recontextualized when other characters' special abilities are unlocked. There are so many characters that I cannot keep track of any of them from chapter to chapter, let alone from book to book.

This Crescent City series is so bonkers because it's some kind of urban fantasy and I simply do not believe that SJM understand how technology works in real life. In this world the internet is unironically called “the interweb.” In this world mermaids have underwater glass domes to protect their computers from getting wet. In this world mermaids also use otters to send mail.

I read all 800 pages of this in like a week, no notes.

I AM OBSESSED WITH THE ENDING WHERE BRYCE TELEPORTS INTO THE WORLD OF ACOTAR!! SJM BUILDING HER OWN MULTIVERSE!!! MAAS-IVERSE!!! WHAT THE HELL
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I had to re-read this because after I re-read the first one for the podcast I remembered the unhinged cliffhanger ending of this one, and the 3rd one is out now ,but then I realized that I didn't remember ANYTHING else from this book besides the ending, which as I've just said is unhinged.

refreshing the context makes it make, maybe, like, 3% more sense???

also again did I give this 3 stars? is it a 3 star book? Is it a 1 star books? Is it 5 stars? No probably not that. IDK I'm just overwhelmed

anyway on to read the next 800 pages of this truly baffling saga!!!!!