#book babble

What protects the wise, gifted children of the world? Group projects, apparently.

『There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits』

Harrow… Nova?

“Continue that sentence,” she said, “and I’ll make it to the pain.” Oh so this is princess bride now

Role swap au?? Harrow cav and reverend daughter Gideon?

This isn’t how it happens, Abigail says. Why are we doing the AU thing. It’s fun, but like. Why

I’m imagining a bunch of ghosts in the river getting dragged into Harrow’s increasingly insane AUs and it’s honestly so funny

The fourth house babies!!!

“they’ve got a hotshot new BARI star.” BARISTA. A BARISTA. I-

Oh fuck oh god it’s Gideon

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ABSOLUTELY NOT ABIGAIL. LET MY GIRLS FLIRT OVER COFFEE PLEASE, I AM STARVING FOR SAPPHIC TIME

HEYYYY CH 43 HAS THE GIDEON SKULL

Memory hit Harrowhark Nonagesimus with the inexorable gravity of a satellite sucked from orbit, flinging itself to die on the surface of its bounden planet; the world hit her like a fall. AAAAAA

“If I forget you, let my right hand be forgotten,” her mouth was saying. “Add more also, if aught but death part me and thee.” And, unsteadily: “Griddle.” AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I am un-fucking-well

Harrow was too amazed by her body’s expanding capacity for despair. It was as though her feeling doubled even as she looked at it, unfolding, like falling down an endless flight of stairs. She dug her hands into the mattress and she cried for Gideon Nav. Stab me in the fucking chest why don’t you

OH SO SHE IS LEGIT POSSESSED. MAKES SENSE I GUESS

As her—cavalier—might have put it, absolutely butt-fuck nothing happened. Ow ow ow ow ow that hesitation OW

SHES BEEN STABBED?!?? Well that’s ominous

Oh that. That stab looks a lot like Gideon on the fence in my brain

AND THEN ITS GIDEON IN HER BODY AHAHSJDJFJJF

Calm. I’m very calm.

Does that mean the Lyctor process is now back on? Fuck. Shit. Fuck.

She healed immediately, that’s. Not good. That’s Lyctor 😭

you weren’t around to be furious, but if you had been, I would’ve told you not to bother; I planned on making them sorrier than they had ever been in all their fucking life. This is the peak of romance actually

Gideon mourning Harrow, I am in so much pain

I GAVE YOU MY WHOLE LIFE AND YOU DIDNT EVEN WANT IT

someone put me down

Gideon babe that is NOT THE REASON SHE- AGHHH

SHES PROUD BECAUSE OF THE CALLOUSES AGHH

I’m. CALM!

But some ancient engine had revved to life for me in a way it never had done for you, probably because I am a good girl and you are an evil nun, and it tore through us almost simultaneously. I need them to bicker instead of this one sided monologue. For mental health

“Come back. I hate this. Eat me, and let’s go full Lyctor. I didn’t fall on a fence for this, Nonagesimus.” I’m going to start eating drywall

“Whenever you’re ready,” I said. “Don’t worry, honey. I’ll keep the home fires burning.” I AM SICK I AM ILL I AM PASSING AWAY

Harrowhark had thought from the start the woman showed signs of suppurating ego, but she had never convinced Gideon to see past the appealing eyes and softly clinging dresses. Harrow really was sitting there like. Nav stop being such a hopeless lesbian and use your eyessss

HARROW ASKED CRUX TO PUT ORTUS ON THE SHIP

SHE WANTED GIDEON ALL ALONG AHAJSJDJFKFJFKFKFK

“She died because I let her! You don’t understand!” HARROW JUST STAB ME ITLL HURT LESS

Gideon fighting for their lives: whoops, there goes a thumb. I sincerely apologize. My bad. Please do some pull ups.

THESE MOTHERFUCKERS HAD A HUNGER THAT ONLY THUMBS COULD SATISFY??? Oh that’s a meme I haven’t heard in a LONG time. Llamas with hats returns

You didn’t have your original thumb and I’d touched your intestines, which is usually what, fourth date, but you were fine. Gideon somehow flirting through narration is insane work

Mercy what the FUCK are you talking about. Gideon has “her” eyes??? Who showed you Gideon’s corpse???

“Lipochrome. Recessive.” FUCK THATS WHAT CYTHEREA SAID TOO

I walked away and ate a sandwich and now I think I understand. Mercymorn is with BOE? So much else going on that I totally forgot there’s a traitor in our midst. The rest I’m still lost on

W a i t. Ninth house operation. Being chased by Gideon. Is she talking about Gideon’s fuckin mom

Me 🤝 Mercymorn: What the FUCK is going on

Bro so much of Gideon’s narration when she’s controlling the body is “whoops, sorry Harrow. In my defense-“

Oh crazy, Ianthe FAKED NOT SEEING THE BODY??? That’s so fucked up. Gaslight gatekeeper girlboss is her motto fr fr

Gideon is so violently protective of Harrow and I am going to pass away. GET HER ASSSSSSS

Crazy that I’m more behind an Ianthe/Gideon ship than an Ianthe/Harrow. ofc not seriously because my griddlehark heart but like. I can see it

Gideon: stop being so short, Ianthe should NOT be taller than us

LETTER FOR GIDEON

YOU KNOW IT WAS KILLING ME TWICE THAT YOU WEREN’T THERE, RIGHT?

I COULDNT EVEN. HEAR. YOUR. DAMN. VOICE.

THE GLASSES!!!!!!!

One flesh one end I’m going to crash out

Fuck okay Gideon is also crashing out because Harrow didn’t Eat Her

Wow Ianthe has so completely misunderstood the purpose of that surgery that it’s kind of hilarious

It’s sad because Gideon I think is seeing it the same way??? But still. Wildly off base.

Dear The Body,

If you are somehow haunting or possessing Harrow, please stop so she can be happy with her cav.

XOXO,

Dawn

“Always your sword, my umbral sovereign” just kill me honestly

YOU HATING ME ALWAYS MEANT MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THIS HOT AND STUPID UNIVERSE LOVING ME

AT LEAST I’D HAD YOUR FULL ATTENTION

I’m walking into the ocean

Griddlehark wedding on a revived Earth on the beach/in the ocean so they can be in the salt water-

Anyway.

Chomping at the air rn

“I was already the worst thing that happened to her” baby nooo that’s not it at allll fuck

Gideon will pause the narrative for three things

- boobs

- swearing undying devotion to Harrow

- dunking on Harrow’s lack of muscle

DONT THINK ABOUT HER KIDNEYS

NONIUS??????

Harrow watching the fight and thinking “if Gideon had been there” and it’s so detailed and specific. They’re obsessed with each other I fear

Squints

The red hair and the last note that Harrow finds in the dream world. Is the sleeper Gideon’s fucking MOM

it would explain why there was a link to Gideon’s sword

Ortus please add gay Nonius/G1deon slash fic in your writing

“Chickenshits don’t get beer” Dyas the woman that you are

Necromancers do NOT deserve their cavs

Harrow thinking about Gideon is always so!!!! God they really needed to cut her memories out or we would have died from the yearning

She could let herself go, or she could go back to her body, and let her go oh fuck I know what she’s picking

Magnus confirmed to be a massive simp with that dance card comment

Is the necromancy book actually about grief bc istfg if we go through this whole book and she just absorbs Gideon

Abigail is the mom Harrow needed

The perspective hops in this book are brutal. Dulcie what do you have to say. Fuck I want to know what’s up with Gideon but also I need to know what’s up with Harrow. Fuck you and your cliffhangers aghhhhh

I’m going to bed with less than forty pages left. I’m being GOOD. I’m SLEEPING.

You’re sleeping. Theres thirty minutes to the emperor’s murder and you’re sleeping.

(Continuing on!) THE SLEEPER IS “AWAKE” BECAUSE THATS HER NAME

“Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity” fascinating stuff. Much to dissect here. What the fuck

AUGUSTINE *AND* MERCY WERE TRAITORS??? JOD FUCKED UP SO BAD HE ALIENATED BOTH OF THEM *AND* CYTHEREA?

THEY WERE GOING TO BREAK INTO THE TOMB?!?!

But then why have a baby with you

Wait. Simmering. Cooking. Contemplating.

Gideon must have been needed to open the tomb somehow. Jod was pretty firm that only he can open the tomb though because it’s his blood so like. But harrow got in. Baby sacrifice can get around the ward??? That feels wrong. He seemed sure that it wouldn’t matter. Only thing I can think of that would make sense is if Gideon is Jod’s kid, but like. Ain’t no way Wake and Jod fucked

I- um. What the fuck

Gideon is Wake and Jod’s kid in the most fucked up way possible apparently

THE BOMB??? This is insane. She’s insane. This is so fucked

The woman I was pretty sure was actually my mother—wearing the body of a woman I’d had a crush on, who in turn had been wearing the identity of a woman she’d murdered, until I fell on a spike so that my boss could kill her—craned her head around in her bonds. What is this book.

G1DEON THOUGHT IT WAS HIS??? ALL OF THE LYCTORS WERE FUCKING AROUND WITH WAKE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER

“Hi, Not Fucking Dead,” he said. “I’m Dad.”Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. Jump out the airlock. Shut the fuck up. Shut!! The fuck!! Up!!!

You clawed my face so bad that my blood ran down your hands. THIS. THIS IS IT ISNT IT. BLOOD UNDER THE NAILS. THATS HOW HARROW OPENED THE TOMB.

(That dirt under your nails Caitvi line becomes more relevant by the second)

It’s wild that people act like Gideon is the dumb meathead and Harrow is the deep poetic one because where I’m standing Gideon is the one who spontaneously breaks into borderline poetry in her narration

AL IS ALECTO! I RECOGNIZE THAT NAME! THATS THE BOOK WE’RE ALL WAITING FOR!

It’s wild that this is such a dramatic conversation and they’ll. Pause to offer cigarettes and apologize for raising their voices. What the fuck

I don’t have much sympathy for the Lyctors because like. No one forced them to kill their cavs! They very much could have Not Done That! Like yeah I’m pissed that he kept info from them that might have avoided that, but it’s not like that’s the only thing that could have stopped them >:(

Oh okay adding Mercy and Augustine to the list of duos with hatred and trust intermingled so deeply that it’s become a new kind of devotion

Holy shit.

Holy shit again. Bye Mercy.

JOD WAS THE ONE HAVING G1DEON ATTACK HARROW???? Oh youuuuu motherfucker

“Swear me your loyalty :)” << man who has admitted to lies leading to unnecessary murder, who has killed a friend right in front of you, who has no intention of changing course

Gee I wonder what Augustine will say

JAIL FOR MOTHER. Gideon is Miette confirmed.

Ianthe saving the emperor but not Augustine was somehow both exactly what I expected and not at all on my bingo card. I guess she’s just had a pretty visceral demonstration of what happens to people who turn on him, so I see where her brain is at

Okay im loving Dulcie’s dedication to the whole ugly truth juxtaposed with Jod’s commitment to denying and lying to everyone until the option is ripped away from him

Harrow flashing back to the pool as she’s drowning, I cANT

Okay is Harrow now a revenant? Haunting the tomb, the sword, and the magazine? Like Palamedes?

Who is Camilla looking after, because the exercise and the sword sound like Gideon but. No memories. And maybe on a planet we haven’t seen yet??? Idk. Confused. Curious.

So there’s Harrow finished! I’ve been told I need to read something in the back of the book about the BOE folks, but first. Tumblr post.

Sorry this one is so long. Let me know if I should add a read more if folks hate scrolling past it. Thanks to pastels for letting me scream in her DMs, and to folks who have sent me non-spoiler posts and art! Hoping to start Nona soon :)

Very fucking proud that I figured out that becoming a Lyctor requires killing/consuming your cav, I cooked with that one

The pool scene

.

That’s it, that’s the bullet point.

Just know that I was fully pacing at that scene.

God they’re so!!!!

IANTHE I DID NOT TRUST YOU BUT I DIDNT THINK YOU WERE INSANE

In all of my Dulcinea wariness I did NOT expect this one

Palemedes :((( oh buddy :(((

Damn I really thought he and Camilla were A Thing

GIDEON HAS HER SWORD BACK LETS FUCKING GOOOOO

What’s more gay, gay sex or “I said a necromancer alone. I have you. We bring hell.”

“Show them what the Ninth House does” “We do bones, motherfucker” they’re so!!!!!!!

God someone constructed Griddlehark in a lab specifically to kill me and it’s WORKING

What’s more gay, gay sex or “without even thinking about it, her body moved to take her rightful place: in front of her necromancer, sword ready”

They’re the exact type of ship that makes me fucking insane. It’s the devotion!! Fucking!! Ahahshsjkdfjjffkkg

I need griddlehark but it’s the caitvi “I’m the dirt beneath your nails cupcake. Nothings going to clean me out.”

ANYWAY

The energy of being able to perfectly cover your weaknesses because I’ve been trying to stab them since we were kids- AGH

insane insane insane

“I need to be inside you,” Harrow bellowed over the din.

Yeah I’m suuuure you dooooooo

Anyways

Gideon lying to Camilla about Palemedes saying he loved her and Camilla going “What? No he didn’t” is so funny and so heartbreaking at the same time

Can the lesbians stop self sacrificing for FIVE MINUTES

“Siphon me” “I’ll distract her as long as possible” oh my goddd shut upppppp

“You know I don’t give a damn about the Locked Tomb, right? You know I only care about you.” I AM ON THE FLOOR

FIRST FLOWER OF MY HOUSE????

Bruh

The sapphics

They’re killing me

F

For the

For the ninth

???????

Well shit

Fuck

Fuck dude

Shit

…..

… shit

It’s the necromancy book, surely death is temporary!!!

Surely!!!!!!!!!

“See you on the flip side sugarlips” is the most Gideon thing to part with

Spouting poetry and one-flesh-one-end and then going out on that

Crying now!!!

God Harrow is so shattered that entire chapter, I’m NOT going to be okay for her POV book

YOU ARE TELLING ME

HARROW WAKES UP

MEETS GOD

AND IMMEDIATELY THROWS HERSELF ON THE GROUND BEGGING TO BRING GIDEON BACK

tf you mean you can’t, BITCH

HOW DARE YOU ASK HER TO LIVE WITH IT ON GOD HARROW ON GODDDDD

um

Cytherea was the most humane???

Are we sure about that one???

I’m sorry did we miss the part where she killed someone, impersonated them, and tried to murder everyone??

“The one with the most capacity for kindness” the one who KILLED TWO TEENAGERS????

The others must be a piece of fucking work

The bodies are all?? Gone????

Well that makes this whole “death is temporary” thing another layer of difficult

Okayyyy hi Harrow the First

And that’s book one! In… a little over a day? That was such a fantastic read, and I’ve absolutely neglected my adulting to read it. Thank god there’s a book store next to work so I can get the next one!

The funeral is low-key funny

“she was overworked and underloved.” Insane justification for murdering so many people

That chilling moment when you tell god that you’re the product of a genocide and god goes “woah! That’s so cool! I did basically the same thing on a larger scale! Do you understand how cool that is??”

Okay this conversation is making me 1) chillingly certain that God has also committed a genocide and 2) horribly aware of how he justifies that to himself

“SHE ASKED ME NOT TO TELL YOU”

IS GIDEON

TALKING TO THE BODY???

OR WAS THAT OLD HARROW WHO REMEMBERS

WHO ASKED THE BODY NOT TO TELL HARROW WHAT COLOR HER EYES ARE

fucky wucky man

Some of the brackets were empty, and some held rapiers. One in particular always drew you back to it: a black rapier with a basket hilt formed of ebon wires. I am going to crash out, I’m so serious

She doesn’t even know why

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Harrow regretted not making him take a solemn pledge of silence, to walk the place as the mute and intimidating bulk his father had been; but only a very obedient idiot of a cavalier would have stuck to that. I-

HARROW

“Is this how it happens?” Keeps coming back in this weird AU of Canaan House

This is NOT how it happened. Actually. But anyway-

The Sleeper has Gideon’s sword 😭

Okay is it just me or is the sleeper in the AU Canaan House only targeting the people who weren’t murdered in book one

The cast of this au is increasingly Harrow and the dead people

WOAH THE REAL DULCINEA IS HERE

It’s a good thing Harrow doesn’t remember Gideon becaus if she knew her only friend died for her to deal with the asshole Lyctor squad?? She would probably kill god herself

What’s gayer, gay sex or your exoskeleton scraped quite loudly in that black silence as you took the bone-sheathed sword from its loverlike position next to you on the bed.

Keeping your dead cav’s sword in a “loverlike position next to you on the bed”. Anyway

Zombie Cytherea was not on my list for this book and I’m not happy about it

What the fuck is wrong with these people

“Hey the corpse is zombie walking around at night” “okay, not my problem” BITCH TF YOU MEAN

ITS EVERYONE’S PROBLEM

And there’s act two. When I said “it’s a necromancy book, surely death is temporary!” I was talking about GIDEON, not fuckin. CYTHEREA

CAMILLAAAAAAAAAA

PALAMEDESSSSSSASS

He’s so upset that she’s a Lyctor and as he should be. Me too king.

YOU NEVER COULDVE GUESSED THAT HE HAD SEEN ME????

I FUCKIN KNEW IT, GIDEON IS OUR NARRATOR

Hi is the woman in the photograph in the shuttle meant to be Gideon or someone else entirely

SO MANY LETTERS BEING OPENED! I’ve been waiting hehehe

Ianthe bartering in the Coronabeth letter is so funny. Sign all contracts with xoxoxo

CORONABETH HAS GIDEON’S RAPIER, IM SO SICK

WE’RE NOT ON THE SAME SIDE ANYMORE?!?!

Ohohohohho

Except for Judith?? Who appears to be a prisoner of some sort in this situation. Thanks for the traitor info queen

The weather at Canaan house? Blood fog and blood snow?? Low-key why does the blood-water-weather sound like the River

Oh they’re DEFINITELY IN THE RIVER. those weird veins that are popping up are literally bleeding River water

Teacher sounds insane, but also he’s making some weird fucked up sense

It sounds like he’s definitely talking about the Body in the tomb and that the Lyctors begged Jod to put her in there??

And the whole “I was only a man, or perhaps fifty men” combined with Jod hearing about Harrow being 200 babies and going “oooohhh same” combined with the “five hundred into fifty” note from book one… I am cooking…

Idk what I’m cooking yet but the pot is on the stove and simmering

I guess I’m wondering if it takes a significant amount of deaths or something like the resurrection to be pulled off. Like we would have no way of knowing if John brought back only a part of the population instead of everybody.

Am I cooking chat

Was that none pizza left beef????????? Wha

Why

What the fuck

1) why is he using tumblr memes for the apocalypse and 2) what the fuck

Why would he know

Wait.

Wait wait wait wait wait wait

Dots are dotting

Is this OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

IS JOD FROM FUCKIN. EARTH?!?!?!

“ARE YOU AND IANTHE BEING SAFE?” IM ON THE FLOOR AHAHSJDJKFJFJF

“We—are not—intimate.” “Neither are we romantic—neither are we, frankly, platonic—”

AHAHSJDJDJFK HARROW SAID ABSOLUTELY NOT

rip Ianthe she doesn’t even know how hard she just got rejected

Oh god the First was earth wasn’t it

“Rising sea levels and a massive nuclear fission chain reaction …” fuck

His first resurrection wasn’t a normal human being but was also an Angry Girl??? Huh.

A L baby girl idk who you are but I love you and I support women’s wrongs

“I like to think that she would like you. You’d make a hell of a daughter, Harrowhark. I sometimes indulge in the wish that you’d been mine.” That’s awkward considering 1) she’s in love with the Body and 2) parents are kind of a loaded thing for her

Harrow girl I need to hug you so bad

OH GOD SHES SHARING THE TOMB THING

Haha. Ha. Haaaaaahhhh. This can only go well

“Did I kill two of my fathers that day?” I need to HUG HER

No I refuse to believe she’s insane in that way. She’s too in love with the Body to have made that up

“Harrow, who the hell’s been tampering with your temporal lobe?” Probably Harrow, let’s be honest. Maybe Ianthe at Harrow’s request.

Zombie Cytherea jumpscare

And you were angry. You were always such a little bitch when you were angry. Gideon I can sense your heart eyes from here

✨experimental lobotomy✨

She stared at her own heterochromatic, night-and-day gaze, at those celestially mismatched irises. One black. One gold. I’m not okayyyyyy

God the severance AUs for this must go crazy. Love life so tragic you get a lobotomy about it

Time to absolutely fuck you up 💗

THE HAIRCUTS LMFAO, IANTHE YOU PETTY BITCH

“Someday I’ll marry that girl” oh honey you think you’re the love interest when you’re actually the supportive best friend. Awkward

And that’s act four! I feel like I need to go run a mile or something, that was so much happening. If you are keeping up with these and have fan art that won’t spoil me, pls pls pls pls send them my way! And thanks to those who already have hehehe

* Well it’s day 5, and considering it’s 24 hours until the tomb opens, we’re suspiciously far from the tomb and the nine houses

* That said, day 5 is also apparently 43% of this book.

* Palamedes hearing “I don’t mind if I die, I’ve been dying for a long time” and immediately refusing to be part of that again- this poor man, he must’ve gone through hell with Dulcie

* I KNEW Corona was going to go see Ianthe the second she could. BoE I fear you may be stupid

* NONA ATE A CIGARETTE AHDHDHFJ

* Corona and Ianthe reuniting 🥺

* “Don’t say what babs would say” about her wearing studs gives me so much information about Naberius 😂 fashion police cav fr fr

* Okay I knew BoE was being tricked but I didn’t expect it to be a gambit to save Judith

* Ianthe must be so pissed that the holiday is mourning Corona not celebrating her Lyctorhood

* Okay so is that actually G1deon or is that Pyrrha pretending to be G1deon?

* Oooooh they’re going to fake that Nona is Harrow!!

* Cassiopeia left the sixth information? ANOTHER TRAITOR LYCTOR? Damn Jod they KNOW you’re fucked I’m

* Ianthe asking Harrow where she went, then wondering if she’s actually talking to Gideon- so is Kiriona just someone else puppeting Gideon’s body??

* What the fuck happened during that scream

* Everyone with a necrotic body is down???

* Hell yes challenge her back Cam

* HELL YES MATCH TO THE SIXTH CAM

* Palamedes has a body!!!!!!

* Campal my beloveds…. The mean so much to me…

* GIDEON!!!!!

* GIDEONNNNNN!!!!!!!

* NONA! KISSED! GIDEON!!

* So you’re telling me. That Harrow and Gideon’s bodies have kissed. But the souls are very possibly still missing in action.

* This qualifies as bullying, I think

* “I don’t know what the fuck John’s thinking, dressing everyone like the military wing of disco.” Pyrrha you are the funniest motherfucker here. Roast his assssss

* Corona has Gideon’s sword still. Give it back to her 😭😭😭 that’s not yours!!

* Why are there teeth in Gideon’s chest wound. What happened to her throat. What the fuck. What happened to my girl, it was a FENCE

* “I’d slap you for joking about your death but then I’d have to kick my own ass” campal my beloved

* GIDEON GIDEON GIDEON GIDEON GIDEON GIDEON GIDEON GIDEON GIDEON GIDEON GIDEON GIDEON

* Palamedes: I never thought I’d be so happy to hear the words “sex pal”

* “He’s made a revenant out of you” “Yope” Gideon I missed you so much

* Wtf was the “marry a moron” comment she just made to Camilla? Did I miss something here?

* Okay this has weird vibes. Like, Gideon is pushing them away, but also steadying Camilla after she gets knocked back(????) by the broken syringe, but also “flinching” and pushing her away? Is this a weird combo of a revenant and Jod puppeting her body?

* THOSE ARE MY SPEED HOLES ANSJDJDKKFFKF

* “Nona had never seen anyone so sad in her whole short life” cool I too am fuckin sad about it 😭 what is happening

* The Nona Honesty Hot Sauce conversation has me all kinds of emotional

* She’s back in the gaaaaaang

* Holy shit Pash is Gideon’s family!! Gideon has family!!!! (I’m not counting Jod because fuck that guy)

* Nona talking with the resurrection beast! Nona confirmed not to be Harrow!! I am fully committed to Nona = The Body = Earth theory

* Jod that nuke plan is mighty fucked up

* Jod you don’t take a man’s arm and then make him a dead man’s switch on a fucking nuke

* Jod we don’t threaten NUCLEAR WAR OVER THE BILLIONAIRES RUNNING AWAY

* Jod we don’t START NUCLEAR WAR FOR THE THANERGY IT CREATES

* JOD. WE DO NOT. EAT. THE SOUL. OF. THE EARTH.

* *googles Hollywood Hair Barbie*

* This bitch killed the entire solar system because he hated the rich for leaving people behind

* Like don’t get me wrong, FUCK those guys for doing that, but you don’t kill the ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM for the sake of stopping other people from surviving

* She picked him, and this is how he repays her

* “I still love you” I’m. On the floor.

* Bitch ass “I resurrected everyone after disaster” motherfucker you are the disaster. Fuck youuuu

* On the one hand, I want Gideon to leave Nona alone. On the other hand? Gideon wanting desperately to know where Harrow is?? Gideon asking if Nona loves Harrow??? I go insane. I eat that shit up.

* Omg was Pyrrah going to call her A. L.?

* Pyrrah begging Camilla and Palamedes not to go Lyctor, I am NOT WELL

* Palamedes saying that what they had was perfect, I REPEAT I AM NOT WELL GANG. I AM NOT WELL

* LIFE IS TOO SHORT AND LOVE IS TOO LONG

* GO LOUD

* “Don’t look back. Whatever you do, don’t look back.” The Orpheus and Eurydice vibes

* Kiriona starting to unbutton her jacket and then remembering that she is in fact. A corpse.

* Oh, it’s not them becoming a Lyctor, they’re both just. Gone. Fuck

* PAUL?? YOU’RE GOING WITH PAUL????

* No more Sex Pal, only U Lap. Only Aulp.

* John writing initials in a heart but he can’t decide if it’s Earth or Alecto or Harrow- yeah it’s giving Lolita in a bad way

* “Oh it’s fine I’ll just resurrect the people I liked and they don’t have to remember any of this anyways” you are so fucked up!! This is so fucked up!!!

* John your series of events is a bit twisted it would seem :)

* “They are still out there. There can be no forgiveness” “for whom?” YEAH. YEAH JOHN, WHAT IS MORE UNFORGIVABLE. IS IT LEAVING PEOPLE TO DIE OR IS IT MURDERING THEM ALL.

* “Well if it goes wrong I can just start over again :)” that’s horrifying! That’s you basically saying that you would do it again! Holy fucking shit!

* Hello spooky tower, what the heck is in there?

* Okay so Nona’s “middle of the brain” thoughts are Nona. Maybe the top brain is AL and the bottom brain is Harrow (or vice versa), and Nona is a fusion of the two like Paul?

* She’s ready to give up and then she remembers Noodle 😭🥺💗

* Oh the Ninth is in ROUGH shape. What the fuck does this weird possession have to do with the eighth?

* Aiglamene blaming Harrow for Gideon’s death- RAHHHH

* You can’t- you- you can’t take loved away 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

* Never recovering actually

* CHEAP MUSTACHE RIDES SJSJDJDK

* “I think Mustache Rides should be free” Paul you’re a king

* If she doesn’t end up wearing the shirt by the end of this series, I’m going to be Not Okay Ever Again

* Ianthe once again showing up when there are Bigger Problems

* Holy shit, Ianthe and Gideon get along?? This is maybe the weirdest thing in the book. Is Ianthe like. Kissing up to God’s new child?? I’m genuinely baffled

* Nona is back in the Body!!! Alecto time!!!

* Ianthe: “the only thing that can kill me is longing for you 💗” Harrow: “Then Perish.”

* Oooooh what promises were made with Anastasia? I need to know her story

* GET IN LINE, THOU BIG SLUT

* Alecto is already wild. Breaks her own bones to get out of the coffin. Shoves Ianthe into the water. Kisses Harrow (violently). Swears her service to Harrow. Tries to kill God.

* HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE IN ALECTO THE NINTH!!

And now… I wait? Fuck. But what happens 😭 I need to know what happens next 😭😭😭 god, this was so much happening all at once, I need to go pace for a while.

Thanks for sticking with me during the first read through! It’s always more fun to enjoy books with other folks. Also if anyone has posts or griddlehark fics they want to share, absolutely send them my way!

Huh the cavaliers have their names crossed out, that’s sad

UM. YOU DOING OKAY THERE HARROW?

Well I’m nervous and I’m not even on the first chapter

Your room??? Oh we’re doing this shit in second person?? That is indeed rather fucky wucky (words of @pastelsandpining )

Is Ianthe trying to make moves on Harrow rn??

Sorry the description of Ianthe’s non-metal finger as her “meat thumb” is objectively funny. I know this is a tense moment and all but like. Meat thumb.

I love how much the women in the book flirt with each other. I love that they’re allowed to be beautiful and sexy with each other. This book is so unabashedly gay and it’s DELICIOUS, it doesn’t feel like the token sapphics

What the fuck is going onnnn

Only half a Lyctor???? Why. Is Gideon alive somehow 👀 love wins???

The prologue doesn’t count as a chapter. Right? Right. CHAPTER ONE. (Dishes aren’t happening tonight are they)

*squints*

We’re out of second person now.

Okay, so fourteen months before the murder has Ortus as the cavalier. So it can’t be TOO long after last book, right?

Okay Ortus admits to not being a good cav but DAMN Harrow you don’t have to call him out on it that brutally

So it seems like he was about to propose Gideon as the new cav, but instead it’s his own name in freaky font. Is something editing Harrow’s memories? Or was she having this issue in the moment?? Hmmmmmmm

The Body. Capital B. Sounds very official

Yeah Harrow I’m also willing to bet you’re insane, that was weird af

Okay, now we’re at act one! I’ll stop there and be an adult I guess :( loving the start!