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DNF @ 43%

The chanting on audio is hilarious. God bless narrators asked to do The Most.

How is there still 3 hours left on this audiobook?

Formatting annoyance: why are there so many unnecessary spaces between paragraphs within the chapters? Most new sections are direct continuations of the line before. It’s giving the old college trick of: “I have a page count I need to reach so let’s double space and make the periods a size bigger” energy.

DNF'ing on audio. I don't know how to explain it, but this just feels like a book that I really want to read in a mass market paperback that gets shoved into my purse over and over until the cover wears half off.

How old is this main character supposed to be? Because no offense to the narrator but she sounds like she’s in her 50s and I just don’t think that’s correct?

DNF pg 110

pg 248. I am too asexual to understand how this is the appropriate time for that.

Chapter 4: I did not expect to be attacked with such good Anakin & Obi-wan friendship vibes in this book, but I’m here for it.

The first story in this collection, The Head, was one of the weirdest things I think I’ve ever read.

Okay, I’ve been okay with the obliviousness of the characters to things right in their face throughout the previous 4 books, but this dumbass woman literally watched her date drink from something she knew had a love potion in it and then hours later gets upset when he tries to date someone he met when drinking said love potion. W H A T.

Re-reading this one in physical form instead of audio. The 3 feet of snow we just got seems like a good atmospheric setting for this read.

Y’all, the fanfiction... so cringe. It’s incredibly hard to read the fanfiction portions because it’s a poorly written (apparently extremely drawn out) “Mary Sue” self-insert fic. Yet somehow he’s supposed to be known as one of the “most popular writers in the fandom”.... that’s not how that works.

W O W.
The Rebecca Roanhorse story just kicked me in the face and I LOVED it.

Story #3 - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing: 3⭐️ This was good, but it wrapped up a little bit too easily and neatly for me.

I want to finally finish this trilogy. I definitely need a refresher on what happened in this first one though, so a re-read is in order!

Story #2 - The Wine in Dreams: 4.5 ⭐️ I love Mira Grant’s writing. It fits so well in this universe as well. Can I have a full length Star Wars novel from her please? But maybe not set in the sequel trilogy so I’d actually want to read it more. That’s the dream.

Story#1 - Rules of the Game: This was solid! I’d give it 4 stars. It was a good one to start the collection with as it gives us better understanding of the setting of the planet and city all these stories will be in.

I’m not sure if these stories connect at all or if they each stand independently of each other, but I guess I’ll find out as I read on!

I’m finding myself annoyed at the main characters... like a lot. I like this universe but I definitely prefer the characters in the first trilogy.