#this is absolutely about the alchemaster's apprentice which i found a free pdf of and went feral over | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

stuffbybean · 1 year

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you ever re-read a book and go WOW there are themes i did not see properly when i was a kid, now i have to go read the rest of the books to see if there's anything more i missed

and it's exciting but also worrying because you remembered it with kid-tinted lenses and recommended it to people with no real recollection of the themes and details present in it? well shit

#this is absolutely about the alchemaster's apprentice which i found a free pdf of and went feral over #there's a lot of subtext about discrimination and exploitation of workers and minority groups that i completely missed as a kid #i just loved it because it was cat learning wizard shit #and at its core it still feels like that #but the wider context is about so much more than the wizard shit #and of course it's dismissed by the cat whose eyes you're seeing the world through #because he's a cat!! and he has personal pressing matters!!#aside from the subtext though there's a lot of detail that borders on gore if not is already and i like that but not everyone else will #still though i would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys fantasy that's absolutely ridiculous #there's close to tolkien levels of detail about EVERYTHING in the book from alien biology to fantasy alchemy to fantasy hollistic medicine #there's even fantasy legislation in there #thoughts of the bean

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