this wasn’t a bad book by any means and i think a lot of people will enjoy it, but the F.T. Lukens comp led me to think this would be a little more campy and silly than it was, and instead it was taking itself a little too seriously and just had an excessive use of inner monologuing and the word “‘tis”

CW (so far): imperialism, violence, murder, dead body, plague (mention), indentured servitude (past), injury detail, alcohol consumption, emesis, fire