i predicted that rereading GtN with everything i now know would be a whole new reading experience and god i was so right

it’s SO OBVIOUS that protesilaus has been dead from the start. he moves like a puppeted corpse. he has zero personality. he only does what dulcinea tells him to do. i picked up on none of this the first time round bc i was too busy trying to figure out who belongs to which house

it’s even more obvious that coronabeth has no magic, from the way she looks compared to every single necromancer, to the way we NEVER ONCE SEE HER DOING NECROMANCY. again. i did not realise.

Tamsyn Muir is a master of insane plot twists that are simultaneously heavily foreshadowed and make perfect sense

I love seeing all the things left by the old lyctors, the notes and the names and all the mundane little echoes of their humanity, and being able to match them to characters i love. i know why this note says gideon. i know it was written by pyrrha dve, and i know she smokes cigarettes and makes ass jokes and comes up with stupid nicknames.

abigail and magnus are dead, and that was more of a gut punch on the second reading than the first, because i’ve had so much more time to get attached to the characters. yes i am scared for the rest of the book.

just. gah