I am very excite

It's one of the few series to really grab me and make me have lots of new thoughts and theories about it long after actually-reading it

I mean, it combines ambiguous magical ontology for me to chew on, book within a book, historical narratives as a central theme, spectacularly flawed + untrustworthy narrator/s, AI (sphinxes!!), an Ant Nerd character, and ridiculous edgelords being gay and doing (awful) crimes

So that's a lotta my boxes ticked

But it's also a work where the ways I disagree with the author on it are mostly the "that's interesting and I'd love to argue the toss about it for hours over coffee" variety.

(Also she's a distinguished professor in most of the stuff I'd disagree with her about, lol..)

Caveat that uhh this is mostly me fan rambly, cuz if I were actively recommending it I'd include a *metric tonne* of CWs that I can't usefully list this late at night/with my memory stuff. But it is Capital-D Dark at times and overall heavy content/themes.