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I'm taking notes and engaging with the text and the lore within it like it's a history book from another world. I haven't felt this compelled to check every nook, every line for crumbs of detail since my first playthroughs of Dark Souls and Elden Ring. Every single line of prose adds something to the world; another brick to construct this massive Gothic cathedral of a book

Every single line in this matters. It’s scratching that itch for the world building Fromsoftware does through item descriptions and surrealist bizarre scenery and dialogue. VERY VERY highly recommend the kindle version so you can highlight and make the font big.

The Dark Souls of books, very cryptic and bizarre for the vibes. The print in my hardcover is teeny tiny I might buy the kindle edition so I’m not squinting at it

Spice lovers are gonna hate this book but fans of a slow burn and miscommunication tropes are gonna love it

I'm determined to finish this in one sitting if I can gosh darn it. You can't just talk about Bloedewedd and Gronw Pebwr and expect me not to be invested

Ok NOW almost 200 pages into it it starts getting good. Talk about a slow burn!!!!!

This is a slow burn, for sure. I can't say yet even this far into it if I like it or not because the main character is the only one that feels even remotely like a person and not a side character

This is more character driven than plot, very little has happened in these first 100 pages. The Prince Osian seems like a wet blanket and the whole time I'm reading this I'm thinking, man I wish I was rereading Captive Prince right now.

This gets moving pretty darn fast, my copy doesn't have page numbers but I'm assuming the marriage is as early as like 20 pages in

You say Welsh and I'm interested obviously lmao

I hated this book reading it back in 2019 but reading it in 2026 after endless romantasy slop and grimdark depressing stories, it feels wholesome and good for the spirit to have such a classic timeless story as a hero trying to find his place in the world. The difference a few years can make.

billing this as a romantasy is a mistake

This enemies to lovers (perhaps?) is very heavy on the enemy side. Like plotting to murder him heavy

The prose in this is just gooorgeeous, I hope the plot lives up to the writing.

This writing style takes a lot to get used to but yay Scottish werewolves?

The present tense first person POV is a little weird but imma give it a shot

This prose is gorgeous

I see why this one is so highly recommended

putting Aphrodite-Artemis together with an Adonis-Hippolytus is so big brain

This is gonna be a DNF

There’s a whooooole lot of characters in this that don’t really seem to matter. The writing is a little weird, it doesn’t feel particularly urgent or lyrical. It’s serviceable enough I suppose but I haven’t read anything that I would remember later.

This one has a lot of really mixed reviews so far; Princess Mononoke is one of the best and weirdest movies ever made so I can understand wanting to write something in that same spirit. It's far too early to tell if the author can pull it off. Also, I have an early copy so I can't speak to if it has illustrations or not. I think that could've helped it out.

Oh I just had to keep reading. A Hera-Hecate-Gaia and Zeus-Apollo-Herakles WHAT?!?! i need to be taking notes

I have been told that this will rock my world and shatter me to bits. So far he's not telling me anything I didn't already know, but I recognize I've got 500 more pages left!

please god let me have a win on this one I've DNF'd four romantasy books in a row

I can never break free of the romantasy slop it seems

I was told there was vampires but apparently I have been lied to 😭