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When I say it feels like Sanderson doesn't trust his audience's reading comprehension, I mean that stuff like this is very common in this book:

*An obviously extremely important event just happened in the book, changing things for the characters and the story.*

One of the side characters immediately says, "Something just changed... something important."

Yeah, no shit, man.

A couple of these characters are way too quippy for me and I think Sanderson and I have very different comedic tastes. It really seems like he thinks bottom-of-the-barrel puns are peak comedy. The book is great, but sometimes the dialogue really takes me out of it.

I’m having a good time with this, but it feels like Sanderson has no faith in the audience’s reading comprehension. Everything is over-explained and there’s no subtlety or room for interpretation.

So far, this is much better than I thought it’d be for a video game tie-in book. I didn’t have Astarion in my party much in BG3, but this is convincing me that I should have.

This man loves compound words more than I've loved anything in my entire life.

Pretty decent so far

This shit is insane lmfao

This is just kinda mid so far and I don't really enjoy Paul Tremblay's writing style. I'm about halfway through and like, yeah, it's a book, I guess.

Kinda of a slow-burn so far, but it's enchanting.

If you didn’t catch it the first 4 times, she’s wearing a Jack Torrance shirt and she’s not like the other girls because she likes horror fiction. Maybe you’ll understand that after the 400th mainstream horror movie reference in 20 minutes.

Was hoping for more horror going into this this one, but so far it's kind of lacking in that regard. Still interesting, but hopefully it takes a turn in the second half.

Very well written and enthralling, but so far I vastly prefer the TV adaptation. There's gay undertones here, obviously, but the show was so confident and overt in its gay romance and the tragedy of Louis and Lestat's love for each other that I'm just left wanting reading the novel. So far, I also much prefer the TV versions of Louis, Lestat, and Claudia.

Vegans stay winning, I guess.

This might end up as a DNF for me lol. The premise and science of it is cool, but I really didn't expect the book to be this joke-y/quippy. Real Marvel movie writing vibes and I don't typically enjoy that style.