man I loved Too Like the Lightning but I also had this weird feeling throughout like it was somehow … too good to be true?
like, obviously the ideal novel would consist mainly of worldbuilding and meetings of extremely important people
and be set in a future society where world politics is controlled by an eighteenth-century larping society that rebels against the mainstream gender abolitionist culture by practicing extreme traditional gender roles
but I kept feeling like novels shouldn’t actually be like that, because that would be just too self-indulgent? and this nagging feeling was strong enough to actually detract a bit from my enjoyment in reading the book