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Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter

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Winterkeep (Graceling Realm, #4)

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Under Locke & Key

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Me, My Shelf, & I said: " I'm a hoe for the phrase "slutty little [insert noun of choice]" so when I saw this being marketed with "slutty little glasses MMC" I had to pick it up. The fact that the FMC is an SDE and the MMC is super into escape rooms means that this book was a I'm a hoe for the phrase "slutty little [insert noun of choice]" so when I saw this being marketed with "slutty little glasses MMC" I had to pick it up. The fact that the FMC is an SDE and the MMC is super into escape rooms means that this book was also very tailored to my specific interests (though maybe that's a bad thing, actually, if you end up bringing too much outside knowledge to the experience that maybe the author doesn't have).

Specific Knowledge That Bothers Me But Probably Won't Bother Anyone Else and I Just Need to Use This Space to Get It Off My Chest:
the most unbelievable part of this is that she's been an SDE for EIGHT YEARS working in CORPORATE and she still has student loan debt hanging over her

I was also an SDE. and while I didn't have student loan debt one of my co-workers did. when he got hired on right after graduating, he paid off all his debt in about three months, living in Seattle in a post-Covid housing market, and mostly from signing bonus

if you're doing a good job and working there for EIGHT YEARS then at minimum you're an SDE II, probably on the way or already an SDE III. we're talking multiple promotions and easy 6 figures a year. (on the flip side if you've been there for 4 years and not an SDE II yet, then they're probably looking at firing you because you're not performing as expected). another friend was able to buy a half mil house in CASH after holding the SDE I job for just ~3-4 years. (and not even working for one of the high paying companies like Google)

second most unbelievable thing? the way he's complaining that all the escape rooms are only 1 room. I think I've done about a dozen escape rooms (again, all in the Seattle area) and not a single one of them was only 1 room. like literally you walk in and immediately I'm eyeing up which bit of wall or furniture will move once we unlock a second location: that's how expected it is. most of the rooms we did had 2.5-3 rooms, though there was a bank heist that honestly kinda felt like 5-6 small rooms.

third unbelievable thing? why would a software engineer be the first job you hire for this new venture? apart from designing the website and maybe programming some things to trigger at a threshold in the room, I just don't see much need. escape rooms are so tactile & analog that I'd much rather talk to puzzle designers, locksmiths, dungeon masters, or even someone involved in theater (set design would be a big plus, but there's also usually a major storytelling component). granted I'm writing this complaint from halfway in the book and idk if it'll all make sense later but currently I don't have a lot of trust that the author will deliver that plausible explanation for me.

fourth unbelievable thing? after MONTHS of working on it, the MMC still doesn't have any ideas for what he wants his escape rooms to look like (also they're only doing 2-4 escape rooms per week so they have time to dissect... I wasn't doing research, but I did once do 3 escape rooms in a day. it's not that complex. you don't need days to analyze your single hour or less of play time). have they even partnered with contractors? designers? you don't even have a THEME in mind?!?! it's like the only periods of work that exist are the short bouts written explicitly on page and the characters are just frozen dolls for the passage of time in between. ...more "

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“Do you feel free?
Or do you feel, perhaps, like you have stolen yourself?”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside

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“We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

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“The will to be polite, to maintain civility and normalcy, is fearfully strong. I wonder sometimes how much evil is permitted to run unchecked simply because it would be rude to interrupt it.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

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“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

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“If a minstrel must embroider the truth to help us recall it fully, then let her, and let no one say she has lied. Truth is often much larger than facts.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

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