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Restarting as an audiobook

Currently listening to this on my runs and commute to work

Denth and Tonk dismantling mercenary stereotypes 1 at a time

This is so peak so far. Love the banter

Throughly enjoying a lot more than elantris… Siri I am rooting for you girl

50/50 on this book thus far

Very interesting concept thus far

This is so dang good already

I enjoyed reading part 1!! The characters are well described and I’m invested in the storylines thus far. I do find this book wordy but that should be assumed given the time this book was written and that it is a translation. I’m interested to see where it goes!! I do not have any complaints so far — It’s a good commentary on how society, family, and relationships were back then

330 - ok we are heating up a bit… I’m very interested by this supposed lake and how the former elantrian dissolved in it. Maybe it has something to do with the disappearance of dor. Elantrian sacrifice lol??

275 - Sarene is written to be so ‘smart’ but she comes across as an cocky individual who is constantly around 0 iq individuals. The whole reveal that she was playing dumb is so cringe. If you took Sarene out of this book it’d improve so much more. It seems like she had to do little to no work to somehow be a leafer. I also feel like she just does whatever she wants without any consequences

219 - raoden has too much plot armor…. How did he get all these people to agree with him. As I said, there is little to no struggle. Also the whole thing with distracting yourself from hunger does not seem legitimate to me #sorry

264 - the dor… finally have an endgame topic? Interested to see if they can bring back aondor

Page 183 - I feel line there’s not a big conflict yet… every thing seems smooth sailing and when I’m reading I just assume it’s going to work out for the characters. It’s almost as if things are too ‘convenient’ like raoden’s palace break in.

196 - sorry but I don’t like Sarene…. This whole play dumb thing is starting to piss me off and don’t even get me started on iadon. Just give me hrathen

#ThoughtsWhileReading

Page 75 - no funeral scene for raoeden?

Page 117 - why were kiin’s children so adamant about Elantrians

Page 132 - was galladon an Elantrian before the Reod?

Page 170 - why was karata so quick to trust raoden that he could get her to the palace?

This has been decent so far. This beginning of the book was great and I loved learning about the mystery of the reod and being introduced to the three ‘main’ characters.

I’ve become quite annoyed with Sarene however and I find the plot is not advancing as quick as I would have liked and i feel there is not a real conflict yet. It just feels like everyone is doing side quests lol. I have faith in Raoden