I cannot thank
@glyph enough for recommending Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy a few weeks back. It took me a few days to get through the first book, then 1.5 days to read the latter two as I couldn’t put them down. Now I get to ask myself, “at what cost does this comfort me” and while it’s not a fun question to ask, it’s one I should’ve started asking earlier.
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