#small parallels

[clockworkbee]

reading about Kwang Chul-hee in The Sword of Kaigen is like reading about Kit Herondale in The Dark Artifices. Those city boys really be like, “damn, are y’all living in the olden times.”

[clockworkbee]

Witch?

—The Girl in the Tower, Katherine Arden

—Circe, Madeline Miller

—Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo

[clockworkbee]

—Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente

—The Sunshine Court, Nora Sakavic

[clockworkbee]

Something about the way Ty hadn’t seen Kit’s hands crushing in on themselves till one thought the bones would break like hearts because Ty was in pain, and the way Jean barely saw Jeremy’s startled look to his fierce rejection because he was years away, remembering the cause of some of his own. pain???

[clockworkbee]

Karma is when Madoc even thought of chaining Jude the moment he got the chance, only to be chained himself as soon as he lost.

[clockworkbee]

When he thinks about her (and about kissing her) embarrassingly often!!!

[clockworkbee]

Survivors left behind...

—the book thief, markus zusak

—the sunshine court, nora sakavic

[clockworkbee]

a moment to take a chance because you won't find that door again, a boy who takes a leap of faith and another boy held back...

—Ben Evans, The Darkest Part of The Forest

—Zachary Ezra Rawlins, The Starless Sea