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adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
This book focused so much more on war atrocities and trauma than I was prepared for. But it was done really well. It’s just a very hard book for that reason. I really liked the personal reflection Muglaghesh went through.
Fantasy, Philosophical Discussions, War
“Lonely places draw lonely people, she thinks as she walks farther north, the fort on her right. They echo inside us, and we cannot help but listen.”
“I just wish you to know that there is more to life than this. There is more to life than these… these great tasks we set for ourselves.”
“The way you feel about the place you grew up in is a lot like how you feel about your family.” “How’s that?” She thinks about it for a long time. “Like isn’t the same thing as love.”
“You aren’t born this way. None of us are. We’re made this way, over time. But we might be able to unmake some of what was done to us, if we try.”
“The world may not go on forever. But that does not mean we cannot try to make tomorrow better.”
“Peace is but the absence of war, and war itself is almost always inevitable. But when it comes, will our politicians admit it is war?”
Fantasy, Philosophical Discussions, War
“Lonely places draw lonely people, she thinks as she walks farther north, the fort on her right. They echo inside us, and we cannot help but listen.”
“I just wish you to know that there is more to life than this. There is more to life than these… these great tasks we set for ourselves.”
“The way you feel about the place you grew up in is a lot like how you feel about your family.” “How’s that?” She thinks about it for a long time. “Like isn’t the same thing as love.”
“You aren’t born this way. None of us are. We’re made this way, over time. But we might be able to unmake some of what was done to us, if we try.”
“The world may not go on forever. But that does not mean we cannot try to make tomorrow better.”
“Peace is but the absence of war, and war itself is almost always inevitable. But when it comes, will our politicians admit it is war?”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Alcohol, Blood, Violence, Child death, Abandonment, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Racial slurs, War, Racism, Colonisation, Xenophobia, and Genocide
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