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Ha! Such a calm smooth denouement after all that excitement of problem after problem after problem! I’d forgotten that last bit about the fruit cake - I remembered what happened to the 1st 2 - eaten during starving times - but not that last discovery - she could have used that earlier! But as her uncle said, one can always use money…or diamonds

“Hole” for “hull” multiple times
“Exemplerary”(12:19)
“Ruled” for “rolled” (12:58)
“Periphrial” (12:59:34)
🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Story cooks along; really enjoying it + the narrator is mostly really good, but she obv has a reading problem or is ignorant of a LOT of the English language bc thru this whole book she’s added + mixed up syllables all over the place. Adding in the “untell” pronunc of “until” + sim vowel shifts (an accent I’m familiar w/BUT!) the fact that no one did editing or directing of this is incredibly aggravating

This time it’s bothering me that the only reason the mercenary didn’t kill her was bc she was calm/had military training, which gave her a “quality” that seemed worth saving…great for our heroine; horrifying for any sense of humanity
And her father is worried about her + gets attention + resources to find/save her bc he’s got money + is a corp head…bc apparently adds value galactic speaking. Disturbing

Omg. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a voice that was so like nails in a chalkboard before and I want to SCREAM - I suppose she chose it bc this character is not likely to show up more than that one time, but feels inexcusable for the character’s position + his relationship to the person calling him. Mostly good narration but the narrator’s accent has subtle western NY or Midwest tells that drive me nuts