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Totho’s kind of hilarious his crush starts going out with a moth he immediately goes to an active warzone

#Not used this blog in forever but started reading adrien tchaikovsky again so pulling it back out #Anyways now I know a guy through larp who knows adrien tchaikovsky. Isn’t that literally insane #Editing later to say. This is a post that may have aged badly

OH MYGOD THERE’S A THIRD DRAGON RIDER BOOK I HAVENT READ YET AAAAAAH EF BFF SHDSCVTSGSGJIDRGGDAGDATJHHHVCDAAQWDAFV

Rereading Dragon Rider again and ya’ll better get ready I am not going to shut up about this book

#I love it so much it was one of my hyperfixations when I was a child #All of the characters are literally SO lovable and memorable <3 #Twigleg my beloved #Sorrel my beloved #They’re just #perfect #GOD I could talk about them for days #ALSO there was a movie adaptation which was. Ooooof not great #I have Many Thoughts about that but. That post will be for later #Anyways. Go read dragon rider it’s a treat I literally love it #dragon rider book #Twigleg #Sorrel #sorrel dragon rider

I’ve now started the fine art of invisible detection! I like it so far but I’m only about ten pages deep. It feels very refreshing?? Like I really don’t like it when crime novel‘s mc is super angsty and stuff (trust me, you get sick of it.) so it’s really refreshing to read a book where she seems just. Normal

#Like she’s got issues #Her husband’s dead and she’s sad about that #But it’s a lot better than some of the recent stuff I’ve read #The actual detective is kinda a bit like that but I am aware that he will die shortly so #But I like Wada :)#The fine art of invisible detection

I finished the Sanatorium. It was. Eh. I didn’t like it but I didn’t hate it either.

Ngl it was kinda funny in the sanatorium when Elin saw the sandbags and was like “Oh my godshe was murdered!” And like. You found her at the bottom of a pool wearing a gas mask, her arms tied behind her back, and with three fingers missing what did you think had happened

#The Sanatorium #The Sanatorium spoilers

Also in regards to what books you’re going to hear me talking about on here, it’ll probably be largely science fiction and crime novels, with a few other genres thrown in. Sci fi because it’s my jam, and crime novels because I have to read a lot of them for A level because we’re doing crime novels in a level so you have to be familiar with the genre

I feel like in The Sanatorium, the Sam subplot is like. Isaac is a red herring. I don’t think he killed Sam?? I think something else is going on there. It’s too early right now to have something so obvious.

#Also he seems affected (effected? affected?) by Sam’s death too #I don’t think he’s a good person. He’s definitely involved with Laure’s disappearance somehow #He does seem genuinely concerned for her #but I think that he knows that something is up #Like more than he should #If that makes sense?#like he’s instantly like “Laure is missing”#And that’s kinda sus to me #The Sanatorium #The Sanatorium spoilers

I feel like the only way I can properly express my feelings on the Murderbot diaries is in some essay-esque thing, so that’s probably going to be happening soon

#Murderbot diaries

Secunit/murderbot is autistic, hope this clears things up x

#Murderbot diaries

ALSO I read the first of the Murderbot diaries a few days ago and just. HOLY SHIT it was amazing I love it so much

#I know I already said that #But shhhh #murderbot diaries

Like don’t get me wrong. The emperor’s spy was a very good book. But the romantic subplot was shit

Alright now that I’ve spoken about one of the better written romances I’ve read in a while, it’s time for me to talk about one of the worst. That’s RIGHT I’m still mad about whatever the fuck happened between Pantera and Hannah in Rome the Emperor’s Spy

#They had NO build up #FUCKING NONE #I remember getting like two pages into their g-rated sex scene and being like wait WHAT they’re having sex??????#And NOT just because it was clean enough to be put into a school library #Because there was ZERO BUILD UP #Also I don’t remember if any specific ages are actually mentioned but Pantera feels A Lot older than Hannah and it grosses me out :/#It’s like ten years age difference right? Which isn’t that bad but I was imagining Hannah as like twenty and Pantera as like late thirties #And I just :/#AND THEN Pantera is apparently in love with her and is heartbroken when he has to leave her behind #Which just ????? whatever #Anyways #rome: the emperor’s spy #The emperor’s spy #Rome: the emperor’s spy spoilers #The emperor’s spy spoilers

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I know I already said this on my main blog but like. I love Lain and Holsten’s relationship so much

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Like. I liked a lot about it, from the dynamic they had going on of the tough and somewhat rebellious engineer with the self deprecating and somewhat cowardly classicist. I liked how it felt like Lain was yearning for him all those years? But I also liked how it progressed in the plot.

I liked how towards the end (spoilers for children of time btw) there was this almost nostalgic feel? I loved the interaction between Holsten and Lain when Holsten’s ice coffin thing began to thaw out and Lain wanted to talk to him before he went back in. I loved the reveal that she’d been wearing his spacesuit as a shawl the entire time

I also loved like the last two sections and how Holsten and Lain interacted then. Like how Lain gave Holsten her baton in an oddly touching moment, and how Holsten carried Lain out so that she could die in the green and in the oxygen and just. Fuck.

I also loved how subtly protective of Holsten she was throughout the book, like when she realised Guyen was taking him to a dangerous part of the station and she was like “why don’t you take someone trained” and when that failed she stayed with Holsten via the tech and stuff. And similarly, when the shuttle she and Holsten were on was crashing, she held him close because he couldn’t get his space-seatbelt on fast enough and I’m sorry I loved that bit

My favourite bit has to be after she rescues him from Guyen and he asks her why she rescued him and she’s just like “you’re my friend is that not enough?”

I’m really not usually this invested in romance in books, especially in science fiction (although star trek’s zero chemistry romances may have coloured my opinions there) but damn Adrian Tchaikovsky can write compelling romances.

#And this isn’t even everything I liked about their romance #It was just. So beautiful and tragic in a weird way #“Romance is dead” incorrect Lain and Holsten exist #Children of time #Children of time spoilers

I know I already said this on my main blog but like. I love Lain and Holsten’s relationship so much

#Children of time #children of time spoilers

Anyways. Some other books that I read this week were the murderbot diaries and children of time (which I already mentioned)

Both of those books were SO good. Like man. Just. Amazing. Showstopping. Heartstopping. I liked them so much it’s hard for me to express my like for them.

Children of Time is especially noteworthy because it’s the prequel (kind of) to one of my favourite books ever, children of ruin, (which is actually where the url of this blog came from)

Those are probably the two books that I‘m gonna talk about the most? For now, at least. I’m also probably gonna be talking/liveblogging abt the sanatorium, which is the book I’m reading currently

#murderbot diaries #the sanatorium #children of time

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