u.s. psychs digging around inside a 15 year old girl's brain with an icepick for fun looking back at their soviet counterparts like "mmm I think your methods may be harmful and immoral"
this is the beginning and is as far as i've actually read as i fell out of the habit not too long after. first one is Assassin's Apprentice. there are several sequel series that follow the same characters if i'm not mistaken, or at least take place in the same world
i read them when i was quite a bit younger so my memory of them is pretty vague but i do recall being struck by how uncommonly front and center the emotions of the main character were, and how out of genre it felt (for lack of a better way to put it). anyway hope you enjoy!
oof I feel that. is this like a "buy one thing per person" kind of deal or is it like secret santa style "one gift to whoever"? if it's the former you could easily play the money card imo.
without prying I'd say lead with whatever your reason behind not wanting to participate is, but I assume if that were an option you wouldn't be asking so maybe just claim you're broke?
okay but what if the country born of genocide, built by slavery, and sustained through centuries of endless warfare only became bad recently, and only because icky foreigners suddenly started pulling the strings
u.s. psychs digging around inside a 15 year old girl's brain with an icepick for fun looking back at their soviet counterparts like "mmm I think your methods may be harmful and immoral"
fucking eat me