Status Updates From Game of Strength and Storm

Here's the deal - pacing and idea? Great. Repetitive motives expressed the same way over and over, characters with little depth or that I generally dislike that seem to not get better, very cliche character tropes, and a surprising lack of clarity in the world building when it mattered? Enough to make me DNF at half way. I'm good.

Pollux's whole personality is that he saw a cute girl at a circus when he was a kid and got a massive crush that never went away...also he kinda wants to protect his sister...but mainly he just insta-loved really hard as a kid and never got over it 🤦🏼‍♀️

I think the point is to not like Castor but I really don't like Castor. She is so pompous and prickly and unlikable.

Also TW for animal crulty on page right up front around page 70.

Not sure I'm vibing with the writing of this. It reads veryyyy booktok-y (not the good kind) and like she's intentionally trying to get those quotable booktok lines (I am the storm cough cough). It also feels like some things are overly described and some things, like dropping one mention of how a character has eight fingers on his hand and then totally moving on without any explanation, are not explained enough.