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sophia_sol) wrote2020-05-17 11:57 am
sophia_sol) wrote2020-05-17 11:57 am
Thick as Thieves, by Megan Whalen Turner
Recently I discovered that there are people in this world who read Thick as Thieves and did not come away with the indelible impression that Kamet And Costis Belong Together. Which is just. So baffling to me. Costis explicitly compares them to Immakuk and Ennikar! Immakuk and Ennikar themselves clearly also think so! The narrative implications and thematic parallels also think so!
Whether they're like, queerplatonic life-partner buds or into each other romantically is open for debate, but the centrality of their relationship with each other just feels so clear and obvious to me.
And I love how at the end Costis is just like, yup obviously I had to go to my family for a visit in order to tell them goodbye because I'm leaving the country to go with Kamet, it doesn't matter that I haven't talked to Kamet about like. Anything. Because I go where he goes!
And meanwhile Kamet is having trouble even acknowledging to himself how important Costis is to him and is astonished to even have the chance to say goodbye to Costis before Kamet heads off to another country! Oh Kamet. Poor Kamet still doesn't quite know what to do with someone as straightforward as Costis and thinks Costis might be upset with him because of like. All the things that happened. But he gets there in the end!
Anyway I continue to love absolutely everything about this book, I'm glad I was inspired to reread it (again), it is the best, the end.
Whether they're like, queerplatonic life-partner buds or into each other romantically is open for debate, but the centrality of their relationship with each other just feels so clear and obvious to me.
And I love how at the end Costis is just like, yup obviously I had to go to my family for a visit in order to tell them goodbye because I'm leaving the country to go with Kamet, it doesn't matter that I haven't talked to Kamet about like. Anything. Because I go where he goes!
And meanwhile Kamet is having trouble even acknowledging to himself how important Costis is to him and is astonished to even have the chance to say goodbye to Costis before Kamet heads off to another country! Oh Kamet. Poor Kamet still doesn't quite know what to do with someone as straightforward as Costis and thinks Costis might be upset with him because of like. All the things that happened. But he gets there in the end!
Anyway I continue to love absolutely everything about this book, I'm glad I was inspired to reread it (again), it is the best, the end.