GOD, yes, I am almost tempted to write Costis/Kamet and M/M pairings are decidedly not my thing but they are just SO GOOD.
...I'm also tempted to write Gen and Irene fucking on a couch. because they definitely had sex on that couch.
There are things I'm glad it didn't really touch on; like, I realized that, oh no, we were going to see Irene have her miscarriage based on the timeline, but it wound up being not a big deal.
The gods extra meddling was... yeah. That was a thing. I guess I'll buy it from the perspective that some chunk of it is their own survival; are they going to become memories as the peninsula is overrun by Medes and the mountain inevitably erupts? Or are they going to survive by making it clear that you do not fuck with these people?
I, too, did a recent re-read of the whole series, and I hadn't read them all in such a long time, so I was struck by things like just how inconsistent Gen is as a narrator in The Thief, and the fact that he leaves Irene earrings, the same thing he offers his god, and just how much I love that scene where she comes in wearing the earrings but it isn't actually SHOWN for pages and pages. And, of course, everything about Costis, and then everything about Costis and Kamet.
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...I'm also tempted to write Gen and Irene fucking on a couch. because they definitely had sex on that couch.
There are things I'm glad it didn't really touch on; like, I realized that, oh no, we were going to see Irene have her miscarriage based on the timeline, but it wound up being not a big deal.
The gods extra meddling was... yeah. That was a thing. I guess I'll buy it from the perspective that some chunk of it is their own survival; are they going to become memories as the peninsula is overrun by Medes and the mountain inevitably erupts? Or are they going to survive by making it clear that you do not fuck with these people?
I, too, did a recent re-read of the whole series, and I hadn't read them all in such a long time, so I was struck by things like just how inconsistent Gen is as a narrator in The Thief, and the fact that he leaves Irene earrings, the same thing he offers his god, and just how much I love that scene where she comes in wearing the earrings but it isn't actually SHOWN for pages and pages. And, of course, everything about Costis, and then everything about Costis and Kamet.