Cursebreakers

If I could see through walls, I could see you're faking / If you could see my thoughts, you would see our faces (Ivy – Frank Ocean). The thing about loving a book is that it always has me on the cusp of saying something weird. I honestly couldn’t count the number of times I stopped mid-chapter, thoug......more

OH. MY. GOD. you guys, it aggrieves me that this book doesn't come out until september, because it was so fucking good, and i desperately need to talk about it; i picked this up on edelweiss because it looked interesting and found one of the top two favourite books of the year. thank you to edel......more

Welp, I have a massive book hangover now. Cursebreakers is the story of a conspiracy between a group of magicians and a subset the military force that oppresses them. It's also the story of Adrien, a magician, professor and disgraced physician as he tries to navigate his akrasia (this world's equiva......more

2 leaning towards 2.5. I think my biggest issues with the book stem from the world building because everything hinges on understanding it’s function and social structure but it’s like … not ever clearly explained . Or maybe it is and I missed it IDK. The stakes were functionally nonexistent . Why is......more

I read an advanced copy of this book, so the final edition of the book might be slightly different. All thoughts and opinions are my own, as always. I’m honestly struggling with how exactly to review this, because I loved it and yet it seems so incomparable to other books I’ve read and loved. There i......more