“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

I haven’t read the Novik series, and I’m in book two of Poppy War cycle. Otherwise, His Dark Materials is the one series I think is a horrible inclusion here. The Amber Spyglass put me to sleep better and more often than Ambien. I refused to pick up the others. Dusty children, and the church is hiding things from us! Yeah, we already have that here and now, and the truth is more salacious than that drivel.