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Here's what it looks like when someone with half a clue thinks they're being clever using Chat GPT to write positive reviews.
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Top Comment: This reads like a product description and not a review. If it’s so reliable and durable why only 4 stars? What a lazy idiot
Review and Chat for Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison
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Grief of Stones is the second book in the Cemeteries of Amalo Trilogy, a spinoff series to The Goblin Emperor. Thara Celehar is an elven Witness for the Dead, a type of priest investigator that can talk to the recently dead.
For this book, the first half was just a bit of a drag. There wasn't as much of the tiny emotional scenes that I loved from the first book and his investigations in the central mystery chugged along. Thara gains an apprentice, starts a risky side investigation with no clear way forward and awkwardly pesters a certain Opera director. I did love all the mini witnessing they did and the training sessions but I was not feeling the first 40% of this book.
However, things really go sideways and the back half of this book was great. The good stuff started right at my bedtime which caused me to stay up to 3 am to finish this book. Besides the things I can't even hint at here, the care Thara's growing group of friends show him is so nice to see. It had all the feels and promised more feels for book 3.
The spoiler chat.
- More undead creatures! I thought that one undead baby would turn out to be the baby of that pregnant suicide. Nope. Just two tragedies.
- We got hand holding. Lol. Okay, the way Thara just kept going off to the opera every day for vague reasons was just cringey to me. Like I really wanted Iana to go to Thara once or for them to run into each other in the street or something. It was all, 'can you answer this quick question for me? Kthxbye.' Bah!
- What is up with Azhanharad? I swear Thara is misreading him and he's actually just always worried about Thara or not actually as jerky he's portrayed. I don't know. I thought the same thing last book with the 'take the ghouls seriously' fight.
Despite the slow start, 5 out of 5 stars. On rereads, I'll enjoy the first half better because I'll know where everything is leading. :)
Top Comment: Re the second and third points, I think a common theme is that Thara doesn't realize he has friends because he has so much trauma of not being treated well. And he's bad at reading people sometimes, like that conversation he has with the ladies about Tomasaran. And as far as the second point I read that as they were still treading carefully around each other. Thara has the memories of Evru's horrible death to deter him from anything approaching romance, plus social stigma. But I think they live in different parts of the city, so it has to be a determined effort to go out to the opera. I liked that it seemed to basically be a habit for Thara, to go visit a friend so often. I definitely read Addison for the hurt/comfort aspect so this doesn't truly bother me, but it does seem to happen with most of her characters! I thought this book was fine. I'm subscribed to her Patreon so I'm obviously heavily invested, but I don't know if I would classify this as mindblowing - I'm not sure what I would share to recommend it to new readers. I was satisfied!
PVT Chat (2021) - Movie Review
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DGG chat during Destiny's review of Sabrina/Gus drama was fucking gross, what the fuck is wrong with you people?
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Sabrina absolutely 100% was in the wrong for toying with keeping the baby, and Gus was totally justified in saying that he would break up with her if she went through with it. Of course.
But holy fuck DGG, that doesn't justify the insane mistreatment she went through by her healthcare providers and by Gus thereafter. If you had INTERNAL BLEEDING FOR FIVE DAYS and were being told to take a fucking tylenol, you'd be traumatized and outraged too, mother fuckers. I read so many messages in chat like "HOW IS THIS GUS'S FAULT?!?!" and it's just so disappointing. She WAS mistreated, Gus DID abandon her in a time of great need, and the belittling of women's pain in medicine is a systemic issue of which Sabrina was just one of many victims.
She was shitty for toying with going through with the pregnancy. Gus was shitty for not supporting his partner through a horrific ordeal. And it makes perfect sense that she would want to share this story, holy fuck I can't even imagine what it must be like to go through something like that. She might never be able to have children, through no fault of her own. Think about that before you attack her. Do better, christ
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Everyone deals with emotionaly taxing situations differently. I can say that during my miscarriage where we went to our normal prenatal appointment at 16 weeks & found out the heart stopped within a day or so of my appointment & I had to give birth to a dead baby at home that was the size of my forearm from head to feet (I refused a D&C bc I had 2 traumatic D&Cs previously where I almost died), my husband was no better emotionally dealing with the 2nd miscarriage than he was the 1st. Men are taught to push aside their emotions, and we recognize this as a toxic component of masculinity. But we should never guilt someone for the way they emotionally handled something. The fact that he's publicly said he handled it badly, should be enough for everyone. But in all honesty, he shouldn't have had to say that.
This ectopic pregnancy happened YEARS ago & would have ended regardless if he wanted her to have an abortion or not. The bigger question is; Why is she just now bringing it up? I think the description in her video explains exactly why. She just recently lost her home & car, which was her reasoning for the video to be sponsored.
All Gus should have said was, "it was something that was very emotional that happened years ago when he was younger and didn't know how to deal with those types of things. Since then he has grown as a person and feels he'd react differently today. However, it was a very emotional time for him and everyone deals with things differently and he'd like to keep situations like this private." I personally believe he wasn't required to make any sort of statement. It's not his fault how the Healthcare system treated her.
But, incase anyone cared to hear my opinion on this matter (which I don't know why anyone would), here it goes; On the left we are always saying that consenting to have sex is not the woman's consent to be pregnant therefore she reserves the right to have an abortion if she chooses. Sex in itself is not an accepting of the possibility of becoming pregnant and being responsible for raising a child. Women should not be the only one in this situation to have this option. If a couple decides to hookup and then go their separate ways, later finds out she got pregnant, the guy has zero options to not be involved. Even if he signs over all his parental rights, he is still forced by the courts to be financially responsible for this child for 18 years. The control lies with the woman 100%. I'm a firm believer that a guy should have the option to sign over his parental AND financial responsibilities and be able to walk away 100% from the child. This gives women a power dynamic that men have no recourse against. If she wanted to keep the baby, fine. But Gus should have had the option to sign over his responsibilities & walk away. It's the same option that us women have when we decide to have an abortion or not.
Just my 2 cents on this, incase anyone wanted to hear it.