I'm the donkey and the end of exams is my carrot

blood over bright haven is the craziest book ever to be written about how imperialism feasts on the global south

Wow. What a bitter, hopeful book.

Blood Over Bright Haven should have a movie just because I want to see edits to The Hand by Annabelle Dinda

"I see you as you see yourself through all the books you read" but it's Alba hating Sciona for the first selfless thing she's ever done

Really awesome that all the shitty mages and politicians got obliterated in a blast of divine light EXCEPT for the one guy who not only turned a blind eye to destruction but reveled in it, frequently abusing the people around him, saying the most vile things out of anyone in the whole book (which we only see because our protagonists are personally tormented by him and it’s likely others we didn’t see were just as bad, but still), who was given the special honor of being killed by what is essentially a falling anvil

Just read Blood Over Bright Haven, and of course I then read a bunch of reviews of Blood Over Bright Haven. What’s ironic about some of the reviews is that all the people who are saying the thematics are overly heavy handed and “too black and white” are the exact reason the thematics are so in your face. Despite being able to see that ML Wang is step by step spelling out colonialism in all of its subtleties for them, they still can’t accept that she’s doing that so they can understand it. And in fact, colonialism being spelled out for people and them still not accepting it is a major plot point of the book. Yet the reviewers still don’t get it. Like ML Wang demonstrated they wouldn’t in the book. Which is what they’re mad about. It’s not surprising, but it is sad.