None Of It Would Ever End If She Was Too Afraid For It To Begin.

[redbrunja]

I real Bitterblue in, basically two days. Basically from

Theil's suicide

on I was weeping, and I cannot stress how rarely I cry over books or movies. This was definitely my favorite of the series (which I need to do an entire reread of, now).

Oh, Bitterblue.

(Also, this made me retroactively like Graceling a lot more, which I think I ended up judging very harshly for one narrative mis-step.)

(BTW, there are several queer couples in this book, all of whom have happy endings.)

(On the subject of romantic happy endings, I just cannot bear

another bittersweet romantic ending.

I just cannot. Don't say anything, but I am debating not reading Goliath until I'm in a better place with that, because I just cannot.)