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monarch: legacy of monsters season 2 is good, but it’s lacking a lot of the worldbuilding, character work, and subtlety of the first season, and it’s less formally interesting as well. ultimately feels more generic now

project hail mary by andy weir boldly asks the question: what if an interesting book was led by the most annoying character who’s ever existed

i had my fair share of problems with season two of monarch (the adr was slowly killing me), but the show remembers to make its characters interesting and embraces it soap opera-ness, so it’s automatically in the upper echelon of the monsterverse

i don’t think i’ve ever used this account before but i need to rave about the feast makers. i never expected to love a book series quite this much but the scapegracers trilogy has helped me through a lot. the feast makers is exactly what i wanted from the third book. the characters, the romance, the writing its all just as perfect as it has been since the first book. clarke has crafted a world so rich in detail and angst that i feel like ive lived and grown with these people. as someone who is a struggling senior in high school, its just been so nice to have this series. i never expected to love a series about gay witches as much as i do. i have a bunch of minor gripes with the book but the story of sideways pike and her scapegracers will go down as one of the most touching and beautiful journeys i’ve ever experienced. time to go reread the trilogy