“But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. All that smoke and savor rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind.” i received an advanced readers […]
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“Is there anyone at this court who isn’t my enemy?” “Not if I can help it,” Laurent said.” We all have that one book you see everywhere, think of picking up one day, but just keep putting it off for no reason whatsoever. You keep seeing it, you see that its cheap in online stores, […]
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“How does one categorize a female leader who does not follow the expected course of disaster and shame, one who instead puts everything to rights in the end, in a way so perfect that her masculine beneficiaries just sweep her victories under the rug and ignore her forever?… Female rulers are often implicitly branded as […]
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“If the gods cannot recognize your names,” she warned, “they will never hear your prayers.” First, I wanna say I’m sorry for the long hiatus and for the long wait because I’ve been hyping this review up on my Instagram for too long, despite putting it off as well and pushing it away further and […]
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“They are less than the mud. You do not get angry at the mud for clinging to your shoe. You wipe it off and never look at it again.” Raise your hand if you’re a big fan of historical fiction! I see myself as one, too. Theres something about the genre that really sucks me […]
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“Let me tell you a fairy tale. I used to tell stories like this all the time; it used to be so important. It even saved my life once. Now let me see, how do fairy tales begin?” My first Sedgwick novel was back in June 2015. Like this one, it was historical fiction, but […]
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