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The use of words like 'okay' always yank me right out of any fantasy novel. Sigh. Still really enjoying myself though!

Fucking Nino again. Can't stand this guy.

Dora is soo infuriating. "Child-wife"? Argh. I had to put the book down from cringing so much.

Dora is soo infuriating. "Child-wife"? Argh. I had to put the book down from cringing so much.

Heh. When I finished this five years ago for the first time, I felt sorry for myself because I had to wait another year for the next book. Sigh.

'His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few people.'

"The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them."

ugh shallan annoys me.

It was a mistake getting this as an audiobook. The narrator frustrates me to no end. For me, a readers voice should kind of disappear behind the story, but here it is the other way round. You're always conscious of a person sitting in a studio somewhere, performing the text. I don't feel I have anything to say about the book ifself right now, and I'm not sure I will finish it. At least not as an audiobook.

Surely the translation is to blame, but I'm really struggling to get through with this one. The main character is a bit dull, but we come across scores of fascinating slices of post-apocalyptic underground worlds navigating between madness and hope. Interesting. The writing - nah.
On the other hand, the writing is so chopped up and odd that it weirdly enhances the perpetually dark, mutant-infested world of the metro.

I'm guessing the translation is to blame here, but I'm really struggling to get through this one. Really gripping story, we come across scores of interesting slices of post-apocalyptical worlds navigating between hope and madness, but the prose! Turns reading into a chore rather than leisure. On the other hand, it is so chopped up and odd that it matches the mutant-infested, perpetually dark world of the metro.

ugh pull yourself together Mindy

"Every time I finish a meal, the leftovers go to the compost bucket." How are you having leftovers?? You are supposed to ration your food!! Are you doing three-course-menues up there? Argh.

ompf. mompf. grompf.
I'm bored.

ompf. mompf. grompf.
I'm bored.