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The Kingdoms
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Frankly, what the HELL just happened?
Things this book is:
Things this book is:
• A history-based time travel adventure/romance, taking place in Great Britain around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
• Kind of slow. Much more heavy on the reflective, atmospheric and emotional side than the adventure one, though there is plenty of seafaring gore.
• Gay.
• Not super surprising. As soon as you get the first reluctant crumb of background about The Kingdom from Kite and the first flashback, you know the MC's previous identity and pretty much what's going on. Then it's just waiting half the book for him to catch up with everyone else.
• Leaving me WILDLY emotionally conflicted. Was the ending happy? Are we happy about this? Do we like both of the MCs? Like, I see it, but having some qualms about (view spoiler)
• And then there's every other relationship that happened in the book, most of which are at least mildly disturbing in some way. Is this okay? Are we all okay with this? I'm going to need a memo written to explain the emotions I should be having, because I'm pretty sure the confusion and discomfort I have going on are not what the author intended.
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Reading Progress
October 20, 2020
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Started Reading
October 20, 2020
– Shelved
October 20, 2020
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10.0%
October 20, 2020
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Finished Reading
October 21, 2020
– Shelved as:
adult-fiction
October 21, 2020
– Shelved as:
fantasy
October 21, 2020
– Shelved as:
solid
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Jul 31, 2021 10:02AM
Same, friend. Same.
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Sujata wrote: "Same, friend. Same."What a disorienting read, honestly.
SAMEEEE. I was wondering half the time if he was who I THOUGHT he was, because I had so many issues with it. I was hoping at least some important revelations at the end would make me feel better/clear it up, but that didn't happen
I confess I skimmed this. Did we ever find out why Jem wanted to hide his real identity using Castlereagh as his surname?
Same. Not sure I feel!
@Claire... I think because his legal name was Chinese (from what seems like Toby's father but not his own?) and very strangely spelled, and Castlereagh just seemed like a more palatably English name in uncertain circumstances? Honestly, now I find myself more confused about the whole House of Lords thing.
