to remember and to let go.

69% thru the book and it's the way dain could probably fully die to protect somebody in this squad and everybody would still go hmmmmmm i don't know about dain. still kind of a rule-following flop, he's probably snitching on us to his dad thru some kind of speaking with the dead magic. feeling like this every time i have to read some more bullshit directed his way

the way dain spent basically all of book 2 trying to Do Right and he Did do so many rights but book 3 is still dragging him through the fucking mud with every mention,,,,,

i didn't know this was considered a classic until i'd gotten about 70% through the audiobook and clocked it on storygraph. i can see why it'd be considered a classic, but my god this could've gone with a few hours of content being cut if i'm being so fr. there were far too many tangents to unrelated people that weren't related to the crime well enough to justify spending so much time on them, especially towards the end (i didn't need to hear about the other evil fucks on death row, i just needed to hear confirmation that these two involved in the book's main crime fucking croaked). i think i'm going to be sick to my stomach furious over that woman who dared to say the poor mother of this family would've felt sorry for one of her murderers for at least a month, that's still ringing in my ear 2 days after first hearing it.