Tak! quoted Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
And because that part had been easy, and because nothing could be easy all the way through, she knew to expect this next part to be hard.
That's some video game reasoning right there
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And because that part had been easy, and because nothing could be easy all the way through, she knew to expect this next part to be hard.
That's some video game reasoning right there
A satisfying continuation of the series, but whereas Ninth House was gritty, dark, contemporary supernatural fantasy, Hell Bent is verging into YA supernatural. Which is fine, but the gritty darkness was what I liked most about Ninth House.
The advantage to being unpopular is you get a lot more reading done.
— Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
My secret
Alex did her best to look innocent, but she hadn’t had much practice.
— Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
She’d told herself she was going to get through the year clean, but the year was being a dick, so she’d do what she had to.
— Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
All you children playing with fire, looking surprised when the house burns down.
— Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
The perfect metaphor for techbro culture
The March 2023 #SFFBookClub selection
According to tor.com, this is my booksona
Content warning major plot spoiler
Alex looked at Sandow sipping his tea, one leg crossed over the other, light glinting off his shiny loafer as his knee bounced, and she understood that at some level he truly did not care what harm came to her. He might even be hoping for it. If Alex got hurt, if she vanished, she would take with her all the blame for what had happened to Darlington, and her short, disastrous tenure at Yale would be written off as an unfortunate mistake in judgment, an ambitious experiment gone wrong.
— Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
We need to listen to internal voices like these in our real lives, when they say things like "Gee, you know what, this project manager would actually benefit if the project failed as a result of these decisions they're making now, but surely they wouldn't be so unprofessional…"
Content warning plot arc metaspoilers maybe? also for Nona the Ninth
This one took me on a very Nona the Ninth-like journey, from "I am following the plot and know what is going on" to "I am no longer following the plot, what the hell is going on" to "Wow, I did not see that coming"
You may want to secure yourself. We’re going to have some physics now.
You get used to . . . corporeality. It becomes a habit.
We think that it is better not to be sentient. Imagine how hard that would be, to actually have to think about things all the time.
Sometimes the friends we meet along the way were inside us all along . . .