Bookkeeping

37. The Demon and the City - Liz Williams

These books have the shiniest damn worldbuilding ever. I want to grab it and roll around in it. I want a badger that turns into a tea kettle right now!

My only problem with this, and Snake Agent before it, is a sort of discrepency in tone. The worldbuilding and plot and conflicts are all very noir, but the emotions and resolutions are clair, and this rings discordant in my head. But I think this is a feature, not a bug, and does not keep the books from being utterly delightful.

Badger!tea kettle!

And reading it has certainly produced the desired effect--Isyllt is currently kicking the back of my chair saying she wants a demon right now please. And also a pony. Ungrateful wretch! I give her a wide array of hot boys to choose from, and now she wants me to create a whole new one.

I only come here seeking wordcount

"Catch"
Words today: 514
Words total: 1714
Reason for stopping: What happens next?
Darling: I don't know who I pray to. I don't know who is left to hear me.
Tyop: whorls of navel and indigo
Mean things: Torn fingernail, getting snarked at by a witch, impending doom
Quirks: It's not so much that Sol is an unreliable narrator, as that she flat-out lies to your/my face.

This story will be so cruel. I love it.

Maybe for TDC I need to start cutting off toes for every day the characters don't put out. This is getting ridiculous.