Don't tell @meganwhalenturner but I maybe bought more editions and I am so ridiculously in love with them. These were a "congratulations on surviving the holidays" present for myself and can I just say, I have excellent taste in hyper specific gifts for certain individuals.
Seriously though, these hardcover beauties and so stunning in person, I'm so happy and proud to be able to add these to my collection!!
“Watched me deal with my barons and my servants, loyalists, traitors, and enemies?” She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if the mask had become her self. If the longing inside her for kindness, for warmth, for compassion, was the last seed of hope for her, she didn’t know how to nurture it or if it could live. Unable to guess the answer, she asked, “Who am I, that you should love me?”
“You are My Queen,” said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still, looking at him without moving as his words dropped like water into dry earth.”
can anyone who has read the later queens thief books tell me whether the truly disgusting orientalism abt the mede empire lays up at any point in time? it's the reason i never read the costis and kamet book and i would frankly LIKE to it just. is so viscerally distracting i don't want it to sour me on the series
Achilles come down and Inkpot Gods continue to be the fandom playlist songs that plague me the most. yes, they are appropriate for this [other fandom] playlist. however, they will never be as appropriate for that fandom is they are for the queen's thief. and now that I've heard them I'm just thinking about QT and not the other fandom