Elliot Brooks 168K subscribers · Nov 8, 2023

BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

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in Babel it's kind of like from a distance but the people that are kind of accidentally contributing to the ability to conquer other peoples and to wage war without really having any anybody who can go against them and so you're seeing all these really heavy important things

Liked

in the case of the poppy War it is fantasy but it very much feels inspired by real history and she is able to create these very Vivid real feeling places for you to experience and I think that she does that very well

Loved

I think for the first read-through of store my archive always stood out as maybe my favorite in the four books that are currently out and I just remembered caledon's story so vividly and I remember that triumphant feeling that you get that Underdog Story it just really stuck with me

Loved

I do think that the beginning is one of the weaker parts of the story because it's a little bit there's parts of it that are a little cheesy some of the dialogue is a little a little cheesy but I think that it was definitely one of my favorite books that I've read this year

Loved

I think this one is perhaps the most quotable and has the best what I call like fist bumping the air moments when you're reading you're like yes I think this one maybe has the most of those so I of course remembered those things but it was all the smaller details that really stood out to me this time around and on top of that I think in general getting to see the characters interact a lot more because they don't actually interact that much but seeing them interact more in this one it was just so fun

Loved

I definitely have seen people have mixed feelings about it but I loved it and that would be yellow face by RF Quang this is my favorite thing by RF Quang that I have picked up