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24% as of Jan 26
Gonna be a freaking struggle to get through this one. All the badly added in Norse is a pain, and the narrator makes it 100% worse. I can barely recognize half the terms, and the other half tends to be used wrongly, or sounds gramatically awful.

I started hating the last quarter of the book. The last couple chapters are quite redeeming, though. And I kinda like the ending. It's solid.

This note should have happened yesterday when I dropped the hiatus and started listening again.

Note to self, started yesterday around 2am, so move date 1 back. Will probably finish today. Had thought I had already read it, so this was a "re-read to check if I remembered anything" which turned into "I guess this is my first read".

Aight, it's time to finish this one. It's short; It's time.

I just wish something would happen. Anything. Even the book ending.

This one is going on immediate hiatus, and I am not sure I'll pick it back up again. Not what I thought it would be, and not in the mood for it.

Only got 20 minutes left but am stopping for the night. Was gonna finish the whole book in a day but am too tired. Also, I solved all but two twist mysteries really early on, but that's ok and did not make the story bad. I quite like the directions, though I would reeeeeeally like more worldbuilding (outside the island) and what that's like.

This update (62%) should have been added on Nov 22nd. It's been on full hiatus since then.

Did not know the genres of this book. Knew pretty much nothing, going into it. Really liked part 1 but am still not feeling part 2.

The start was rough, but the academy-school chapters are more interesting and entertaining.

...'how to even look at her in the eye.'
Gurl, what?
This is the second time this week SJM has given me a sentence like that (about eye contact, too) that makes no sense.

I managed a few more hours of audio yesterday, but my god does the book DRAG in the last quarter. I'll probably finish it soon, but I am not looking forward to it. Note to self, maybe it'll be four stars this time.

marking this down as a 2 day read, even though it's only a little past midnight

Haven't listened since last night, but the progress is still going steady.

Started it earlier today, hoping it would work better for taking my mind off of certain things. It is not exactly doing what I expected, but I don't hate it? Am really wondering how it will end.

"Is he a vampire??"
this lady is asking the right questions

It is going remarkably faster to get into this book than I remembered. As I recall, it starts dragging, possibly around the middle. But it has not yet. A classic, for many reasons.
The audiobook is 47 hours long. I am in for a long long read.

I started this one at midnight, and decided to stop between chapters. Was not aware until just now that I had already listened to 50% of it. It is nice and chill, and a good one to take chapter by chapter.

I read up until midnight last night, but I keep taking breaks from this. It's depressing.

It was around chapter 14 or 15 that I fell asleep without a timer, and accidentally listened through 6 more hours. Took a break from the book before rewinding and going chapter by chapter to try to find where I last remember being. Was it 34%? Not sure, yet. So far, I still recall bits and pieces of what I'm hearing, so I might have been further in.

it's been a few weeks since I reached 90% but I dunno when, I have some catching up on GR to do

Big fan of the Monte Cristo retelling, but very underwhelmed on certain aspects of the word-building.

This update (59%) was supposed to be added on July 26th, when I stopped reading again. Dunno yet if I'm shelving it in DNF or Read. The latter would depend on if I ever manage to get back into it again.

once again one of those *listen in the background* books that will either take a day or a whole season to finish

Reached 31% on the 16th of July, have been on hold/hiatus since then. I have issues with where I think we might end up; plus these are Very Long Books.