#shrimpforthanksgiving

oh my god!! are you in much pain??? jfc what a nightmare

I was when it happened, but they gave me a good painkiller in the hospital and after that + keeping off it + sleeping it off it’s there but it doesn’t bother me very much unless I try to do something with the foot.

Maybe I should learn to wheel around my apartment in my office chair rather than trying to limp to the kitchen

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 Jesus! Im glad the dang foot didnt shatter! I hope you heal quick!

holy shit you did that fast, props

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i imagine hank softening up in his older years, especially after bobby inevitably comes out as something or another

that’s a good point 

i love that button

My lord what book is this

It’s The Pawn series (Book 1 | Book 2 | Book 3 coming soon). As a quick summary, the series follows a girl from a nomadic tribe as she’s taken to a kingdom as insurance for a peace treaty (don’t worry the ick in that is discussed and dissected later on), and then follows her as she grows as a person and eventually discovers her heritage which is way more important than anyone could have known. It’s also worth noting that, in what is somewhat of a rarity for fantasy books, there is very little to no violence in the series, as the protagonist can’t fight. That is not to say the story is short of conflict however.  I should also note that the series doesn’t really grow into it’s own until after the first part of the first book. It has a slight memoir presentation which drops more and more as the story progresses. The first book is slightly weak and disjointed, largely consisting of a series of vignettes in the protagonist’s life, and an overarching plot is not introduced until near the end, though there are sprinkled hints throughout. The books are also enormous and while I like that, others might not. It’s difficult to discuss the story without spoiling the major twist at the end of the first book, and so I won’t. 

I felt as if the stories started rather slowly, they certainly built up over time. Because of the sheer length of the novels, there are lots of points to learn about characters, and how well rounded they are. With that said, some characters do devolve into satellites over time, which is disappointing. There are asides and poor sections and things which could have been cleaned up, but I frankly didn’t mind them all that much. The only thing that was particularly jarring was the narrator’s tendency when describing certain people or events to hop forward and describe the end of that, but this dissipates almost entirely by the second novel and is a relatively minor complaint. There are sections of very good writing as well, though I’m more of someone who gets lost in a book instead of deliberately reading it, at least on the first go. Some elements which got me extremely excited (a triad relationship in particular) do not develop until near the end of the second book, but I expect a deep exploration of it in the third.