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daisywords · 9 months ago

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Well I finished The Hands of The Emperor, and well it was by no means a perfect read or my personal favorite ever, I did enjoy it immensely. My main takeaway is that more books should be allowed to be really long and character focused and about retirement-age adults and have a bajillion little subplots

#daisyreads #some of the scenes were superfluous but also I still had fun reading them so literally whatever #I do have to say though. I had the ebook and was in no way prepared for how long this book was #my loan expired and I had to wait to check it out again #anyway I feel like it didn't follow through satisfyingly with some of the major stuff at the end #like the ending was all about Cliopher and that stuff was lovely but also like. we kinda just stopped focusing on the emperor #also it got a little preachy/unsubtle at the end but whatever #>>going to make a really stupid joke please ignore>>#[why was this Atlas Shrugged for liberals lol]#<<okay moving on #anyway I loved loved loved a lot of the character moments #especially when you keep thinking we're building up to a character losing control and finally expressing everything they've been bottling u #except then it doesn't quite work that way because when you've been swallowing it for so long you just kind of choke #anyway Cliopher is a great character and I love him but he could have been a little less perfect at everything #and we could have done with a little less ''other people get slammed over the head with how perfect he is''#but anyway. I still liked it. close to my heart #loved the slow trickle of worldbuilding and the time to get to know it #the zoomed-in and zoomed-out worldbuilding both #although I'm still confused about The Fall but whatever #anyway I really liked some of the internal and interpersonal conflicts and relationship dynamics #very tender exploration of stuff that doesn't usually get focused on in the genre #anyway I am always a sucker for political fantasy as I am learning

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