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Yet another trigger discipline warning. Someone is 100% being shot to death and its looking more and more like Sonya and/or Murphy.

Literal Skybeam now. This is just Avengers Endgame in the Dresden universe, but with a completelly flat, undeveloped villain.

This is also just one fight after another. It is going from exciting to exhausting, from riveting to repeatative, very quickly. I don't see how you can effectively sustain this for hundreds of pages, particularly when we have been told there will be a lot of little fights before resolution.

That's a very handwavey way to get Murphy back in action. Chances of killing her off are ticking upwards.

We've had multiple instances of people being criticized for poor trigger discipline, enough that we can be certain someone's gonna be shot.

I think I see why Brief Cases was released, otherwise a lot of these dude characters showing up would be confusing.

yeah Karrin is absolutely gonna die. we can't have a woman he loves live.

This simultaneously is moving very fast and very slow.

Anyone else get the email that GoodReads is phasing out the messaging system entirely? What a bizzarre choice.

Something that sticks out to me is how passive the MC is. She doesn't survive a single trial through her own initiative. I get that she is a prisoner with limited agency, but other prisoners are more active in addressing her situation than she is, so that argument doesn't hold water.

So we have a throwaway line at the beginning that one of the heirs to the throne disappeared (and was female). We have a throwaway line from FMC to a princess saying, "Well unless I'm your long lost sister I don't have magic..." and we have one mystical trial left that can only be survived with magic. Taking bets on this being when her magic kicks in and the orphan is revealed as secret royalty.

How is a career healer so bad at identifying clear cases of poisoning?

HOW DOES THIS HAVE YET MORE EPISODIC YA TRIALS? I CAN'T ESCAPE

Okay now its just smut smut smut smut but its all kinda the same.

Dunno why I saw a sweet, smart, homebody computer toucher built like a bear and was like YES, must be a thing I am super-into.

Oh this is way shorter than I expected. Not his weiner. That is huge, as usual.

If you are the eldest millenial daughter reading this, how's that praise kink treating you?

The skin is getting thinner and the jokes are getting decidedly more racist the longer the book goes on.

Again: In a list of best and worst episodes, the worst episodes are entirely fabricated titles and plots, getting more and more outlandish. If you think about them for even half a second, you realize the details don't match up and the joke is obvious.

The end of the list is Homer falling for a list of fake worst Krusty episodes.

Mike Reiss thinks we're all idiots.

Sigh. No, Skinner did not use his daughters as lab rats nor raise them in a box. Jesus why is this STILL a thing? Do people just believe everything they hear?

The openly conservative dude hates worrying women and often 'forgets' the female characters, including Marge and Lisa? Look. Look at how shocked I am: -_-

Another example:
"We don't have writer's block for other professions. Can't fix your pipes, I have plumber's block. Can't remove your tumor, I have surgeon's block. Can't file your taxes, I have H&R Block."
Its a pun, but its fucking solid. Except he follows it with "Booo, the audience jeers, that's terrible. Where did they come from?"
Overwritten to hell.

There's a late-Simpsons tendency to over-explain the joke.
"I did [x]. However, I wasn't caught and never told a soul." Okay, tongue-in-cheek, but funny! That's not what we got.
"I did [x]. However, I wasn't caught and never told a soul. Oh. Crap." A little more obvious, but can still work. That's not what we got.
"I did [x]. However, I wasn't caught and never told a soul. Oh. Crap. I just told." Mangled.

This felt like so much filler. And now we have some Ikea sex. You are fucking Gods, you do not bone like plebian mortals.

OMG THERE'S STILL TIME TRAVEL BULLSHIT

I love Fern's vocabulary