Reading

[resonant]

The library bought the ebook of Natasha Pulley’s The Lost Future Of Pepperharrow for me, since of course I can’t go to the library and check out the paper book. I quite enjoyed it; in particular, it has fanfiction levels of mutual idiot pining, which was lovely. When Thaniel was introduced in the previous book, he was a clerk, and apparently my default picture of clerks is tall and skinny and frail-looking, but this book makes clear that he’s a great bruiser with a Northern accent. He is, in fact, more or less Alec the gamekeeper from Maurice.

It occurred to me that Mori, the clairvoyant, is about ten-ish years older than Thaniel, meaning that when he was about Six’s age, he might have felt the world rearranging itself because of a birth that just happened in another country, and then I had some feelings,

Comments

[beledibabe]

Oooh, I'm about halfway through the first book. Am really enjoying it, and am looking forward to Pepperharrow.

[mtl]

>that when he was about Six’s age, he might have felt the world rearranging itself because of a birth that just happened in another country< - O.M.G. THE FEELS

[aninconvenientruth]

Ooh I've just finished and loved this, and I also thought how fanfictiony the relationship felt - and I totally mean that in a good way. I wasn't sure if it was because I don't expect a queer relationship in a mainstream (ish?) novel so I didn't see it coming in the first one and was totally charmed by it. I am now also having feelings about Mori at Six's age, thank you! I need to reread Bedlam Stacks now...