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a-mythologynerd · 7 months ago

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Just finished The Familiar and it was very fun! Definitely captured my imagination and I adore Leigh Bardugo’s historical and modern fantasies. She does such a great job of evoking those themes of injustice and the grey morality of being locked in systems and corrupt power structures. I’ll probably talk more on this later but if you’re a fan of her work (especially the Alex Stern series) I’d give it a read.

#the familiar #leigh bardugo #it was just fun and fantastical and I wanted to learn more about the world #the romance was sweet and pretty believable although I wish the book was longer so that it could have felt more natural in its weight #the whole ‘we are like and understand each other’ makes up for the difference though #I liked how Luzia and Santangel were their own characters in their own right and not just clones of other LB characters #that made it very fun #I especially loved Luzia particular brand of morbid and cynical humor #I said I’d say all this later and now I’m in the tags whoops #I do wonder if I’m missing some allusions though specifically the orange groove references #loved the varieties of greed and ambition and the similar vibe I got from kamet in thick as thieves regarding the honor and code of the #peasant class #the sort of forgiveness for being screwed over as wouldn’t you do the same #or the refusal to owe favors and the like #hualit was super interesting as a character #I loved her I hated her I think both are good options #I liked how LB played with the pov and the omniscient narrator connecting the threads and the sort of without time without boundaries world #of stories the world seemed to inhabit #myth.txt #book talk

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