anyway here's wonderwall

let me tell you about these books

set on a tidally locked planet (some places are day all the time and some places are night)

three main characters: tiny angry feral mindreader Alizhan, big quiet sensible do-gooder farm girl Ev, and slutty hedonist poet/linguist Thiyo (who you will not meet until book 2, but who's worth it, I promise)

super fucked-up female villain, Iriyat, who's beautiful and rich and beloved by everyone, even though she's doing secret murders and evil experiments on innocent people. how is she getting away with it? well being beautiful and rich helps, and also she can erase memories. oh shit!

but she feels so powerful and untouchable that she took notes on her own criminal conspiracy, and when this encrypted book gets stolen, it sets off a whole chain of events

Alizhan discovers that Iriyat is Up To Something, gets herself and Ev into a lot of trouble, then they try to stop Iriyat many different times, go on the run over the whole world, meet Thiyo, fight and flirt a lot, yearn bisexually, suffer wildly, do magic, make friends, heal themselves and each other, and imagine better worlds

one time Smart Bitches, Trashy Books called the first book "phenomenal"