Status Updates From That Inevitable Victorian T...

I can see this scene in my head and 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

I love how you can tell when the narrator is smiling as she's reading

Speculative fiction reads like riddles sometimes

I think this is as far as I go.
This book relies far too much on telling rather than showing, and I think that’s the reason why despite a decent cast and an interesting premise, it ends up being boring rather than engaging, and probably also why it’s so hard to form an attachment to the characters, as we never get the chance to get to know them for ourselves, as we are constantly being TOLD about them.

I’m struggling a little to keep everybody and they backgrounds straight, but I’m enjoying it so far. I like the characters’ voices, even if the dynamics are a bit a puzzle still, while I understand how they all fit together.