This time with...slightly less murder

[failte_aoife]

Slightly.

KJ Charles

Flight of Magpies

Despite enjoying the Magpie-books I took my time with reading them and I have eventually figured out why: I enjoy the stories themselves, I enjoy the side-characters, I enjoy Stephen and I enjoy Lucien and I enjoy their relationship...in the sense of I enjoy their bickering with each other. As soon as they are

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[rinkafushi]

Cockburn :')

Also lol, I have only listened to one Inspector Gamache book, because after CSI Vatican zoomed by my media landscape on its cocaine fuled sprint, it left me craving for some ~Catholicism Mysteries~ (not that kind of mystery), and The Beautiful Mystery (probably that kind of mystery) came up on Audible. It's somewhere in the middle of the series, but it very much was "Gamache is the only pure, incorruptable soul in the sureté, he's too pure for this world, too good, and of course he listens to chants in his free time". Also, Jean-Guy was just. So stupid :')
(Also, I do know enough French to get it's Jean-Guy, but it honestly sounded like he's a K-Pop idol. Anyway, hashtag stan Joon-Gi)

[failte_aoife]

I have listened to two Saint Gamache novels now and in the first there's a scene where Joon-Gi has to try archery because plot and he has never done archery before but there's like half a page interior monologue in which he is convinced that he's going to be awesome at it and that everybody will stare at him in wonder and amazement and then of course he fails epically...In the second he tries curling because plot and he has never done it before but he is convinced...

Like...if you want me to hate this character then be at least creative

[rinkafushi]

I read this last bit as "like if you hate this character" and I was about to sMAAASH that like button.

It doesn't help that going by the one I listened to, he a) develops an addiciton to opiates and then has to get clean and b) starts dating perfect cinnamon roll gamache's daughter. in secret for some reason. DRAMAAAAA

[failte_aoife]

I mean I'm not saying that I don't hate him. But I am also disappointed in the lack of creativity

And I did not want to know any of it

[rinkafushi]

Stan the superior cinnamon roll boss and assistant and watch Midsummer Murders instead tbh