Status Updates From The Glass-Face Man

ugh

Worst protagonist ever. Even her imaginary version of her girlfriend is a better character than she is.

I've heard of show. Don't tell. But if you have a character whose tongue has been cut off and replaced and the only sign in the text that this has happened is that they speak in short sentences. You failed at writing.

I was wondering this whole time if it meant something that his sentences seem to be fragmented but there was no inner monologue about a stuttering demeanor.

I don't like the main character. Josephina. And I think I know why. One of the main characteristics of the hero is their response to the call to action. The hero is the one who responds to the call to action. Even in stories where the hero doesn't respond. They respond to the call to action later. The second call. Josephina refuses to call the action again and again. As much as I like her girlfriend, not her

Eleven chapter in and I'm still not in love with this book. This seems to happen with early releases. Maybe because I'm going into this blind without a synopsis but I'm trying to think I didn't have that much context when I started Mistborn, the Final Empire or Once Bitten, Twice Shy. And I was able to get engaged long before the half way point.

This time skip doesn't feel useful b/c we know nothing still.

"Take it slow," Clara said and changed the radio to a Boomer music station.

I hope kids don't talk like that. It's silly. But more importantly there are no more boomer radio stations. But this goes to a common theme I see where no one knows what a boomer is. Every adult is not a boomer. 80s-90s music isn't boomer music. The baby boom is real but it's not just every older person.

Oh they're lesbians. That explains the confusion I was having. Aside from the drab and ugly personal description, there is not a lot going on yet. There's clearly going to be a magical world. This is clearly going to be a crazy person is actually sane trope.

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