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aroaessidhe · 2 months

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2024 reads / storygraph

The Liar’s Knot & Labyrinth’s Heart

books 2&3 in a fantasy trilogy set in a Venetian inspired city full of political intrigue

follows a young woman who conned her way into a noble family, a masked vigilante, and a crime boss, who eventually become allies while juggling multiple identities

and trying to save their people and city by joining a secret society to find origins of a corrupting curse, to eventually destroy the powerful magical objects at the heart of it

tarot magic & sigil/geometry magic, dreamworlds, sentient magical disguises

#the liar's knot #labyrinth's heart #rook and rose #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #the summaries at the start are helpful. bc I forgot what happened in book one lol #I enjoyed these better - I think listening to the audiobooks helped with that a lot. They’re quite long books!#the accents in the audiobooks also enhance it a lot #I def enjoyed the series overall & listening to a whole book in a day or 2 (rather than dragging out if i did text format) is better #the overall plot and magic stuff. im not gonna lie and say i understood it all LMAO but I thought it was pretty good & def some great char #don’t super care about romance. like I don’t dislike it - & much prefer the slow burn to instalove that's everywhere - but also eh whateve #also not to be like miraculous ladybug but high fantasy. but #yeah of course the aromantic crime boss w a telepathically linked spider hosting the ghost of a dead guy as his closest companion is my fav #yeah i cried. im tearing up thinking about it now. they’re so good #his little spider gloves for his spider feet?#there's a good amount of queer characters scattered around #(vargo's aromanticism is hinted a few times; and it's pretty clear imo if you're looking; but not explicit)#i see there’s tons of people shipping him/disappointed it wasn’t polyam...I wish it was clearer bc of that. but otherwise it was fine #like. solidly developed in depth character is just as/more important to me overall #but also why'd [redacted] have to leave....nooo :(#also spider on the cover!!! i only noticed that at the end of that book sjdghsf #queer books #aromantic books #bisexual books

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