E. Jamieson > Recent Status Updates

I'm not NOT enjoying this, but also, holy cow, this is bullshit.

Hmm, not loving this as much as the previous one, but I suppose it's still early doors.

The world building isn't the best I've ever seen, but the political games are SO much better than my last read

It's too early yet to say anything about plot or characters, but this is DELICIOUSLY better written than my last read.

Yes, Guinness DOES taste like angry marmite! (I've never had marmite) (but I will die on this hill)

I lied. DNF.

Well, it took 200 pages to get interesting, but it did get there.

I thought this would be too meta and literary for me to enjoy, and it's not! (so far, fingers crossed)

Let's see how this goes after I was bitching about pretty prose over plot in my last read. I feel like book karma might be coming for me.

I don't understand the Treila/Voyne storyline at all and I'm finding the whole book a little overwritten

This is what the Starving Saints wishes it could be

I've now met all three narrators, and let's just say none of them are people I'd want to grab a beer with. 'cept maybe Voyne.

Not for me, unfortunately. Rtc

Nasha and mickey really need to get on the same page or bad shit's gonna go down.

Though what with the alien political tension, bad shit is probably inevitable.

I will finish this one, I will!

There are an awful lot of words being used to say the same thing over and over in service of a very basic plotline right now. I'm not impressed.

Hmmm, I am not convinced. It's early yet but I'm thinking a) this might just be another novel about how terrible people are (oh no woe is us blah blah blah) and b) I like solitude. I would love to be left on an island like that. There's nothing in Rowan's desperation to leave that I feel any sympathy for.

That's...not how horses work

All the names and real myth variants and pseudo-myth variants are making my brain go BRRRRRR

Iskierka is the worst, isn't she?

Yes, if I had to face Achilles, I too would want an angry donkey at my side

(That's not the vibe of this book AT ALL but I had to throw it out there because it is 100% correct yes indeed)

These Brits are so BRITISH and these Prussians are...uh...not the sharpest tools, but they mean well

Alright, I'm old. I'm at the point where I'm rolling my eyes and skipping ahead to where the angsty teens are no longer almost kissing because I just can't take it seriously

I'm obsessed
And the battle scenes are already sooo much better than book one I mean the way the Valerie sank?? I literally called my dad, who is obsessed with old boats, to read it to him it was that good

This book isn't bad but it is simplistic