i have an assigned tqtsona now

the reason i started reading the queens thief series is because my best friend from college and her best friend from high school loved the books and nicknamed each other sophos and gen respectively. i am happy to announce that i now have my own tqtsona in costis, because, as my own sophos says, i am a "delightful himbo who can't not get in the middle of things and somehow doesn't realize that he is". i do love costis and i think this is the best book so far, precisely because with costis as the main narrator he learns about things at the same time as the reader and doesn't seem to be hiding as much. the plot twists feel more natural this way.