One of the best decisions I've made was randomly picking up Assassins Apprentice during a 3 month reading slump last year. Little did I know at the time how much this series would come to mean to me, and how much it would help me through one of the worst years of my life.
unpopular opinion: gender-neutral language often ends up erasing women, not empowering them. when “mother” becomes “birthing parent,” it’s not inclusive, it’s dehumanizing.
why aren't there more romantasy books about two ABSOLUTELY despicable people falling in love? why is it always a not-actually-evil prince and a good girl, or a good princess and a supposedly morally grey character that never actually does anything bad?
My pen falters, then falls from my knuckly grip, leaving a worm's trail of ink across Fedwren's paper. I have spoiled another leaf of the fine stuff, in what I suspect is a futile endeavour.
My pen falters, then falls from my knuckly grip, leaving a worm's trail of ink across Fedwren's paper. I have spoiled another leaf of the fine stuff, in what I suspect is a futile endeavour.
I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully
@withering_petal what they want, and it kind of made sense for me a little... then he got more and more annoying as I read I stopped caring about how he's written and just prayed he would die everytime I got to his POV
@withering_petal I thought it was unrealistic at first for him to change this suddenly but then I thought about how some men only "behave" when they have a father figure or an older male figure in their lives to keep them in check and as soon as that figure disappears they start doing what they w