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8:1 odds implies an unlikely event — one that happens 11.1% of the time. 1:8 is what they were probably looking for here.

I am suspicious of Kier’s evilness in really well-constructed ways. Like it feels like he may be being set up as a twist supporter of Rafe, but it’s being done subtly enough that I’m not confident about it. Which like is exactly the thin line that kind of twist has to tread.

There seems to be a disconnect between Winslet’s level of knowledge and what we’re told about her father. She hasn’t had any particularly remarkable insights about the nature of the beetles yet like might come from being outside of the broader system.

The descriptive language of the book continues to shine.

I am a little uncomfortable with how on the nose the Christianity analog is.

The descriptive prose here really pops. The mine feels alive in ways that I can both anchor in a real cave but also see the magic indwelling it.

If you want dog kobolds (as in the anime tradition) don’t tell me that “hey weren’t kobolds lizards last time I heard about them” and then carry on without explaining why they’re dogs now.

A, the phrase is right of first refusal. B, a right of first refusal deal is negotiated after the initial period is up, not in multi-show succession.

Every additional reading session just persuades me more and more that Princess Donut should’ve been the protagonist.

We’re sort of starting to hit a stride where they’ve reduced the bad details by enough that I can sort of get a rhythm.

If you put a steam engine on a bike, you would almost certainly end up with major burns, right? Never mind that a pound of coal only provides about 900 watts in an hour while a standard e-bike is consistently drawing 250+ continually.

“Cancels all momentum based attacks” I’m not sure the author understands that this is every single blunt force attack.

Caffeine is an insecticide; you cannot baptize a roach in it.

The author continues to struggle with the math of all the numbers he’s throwing around. 13 million people for 150,000 gates means 86.67 people per gate.

I think I may have come into this book anticipating a different target audience. I thought it was going to be very targeted at the married — particularly the recently married — but it actually seems like it’s more a collection of essays with different audiences. Some for the unmarried, some for the broader church, and some for the married.

Being “ever defeated in receiving” is an oddly familiar experience described so eloquently.

At some point he's going to have to involve a third person in the *three* to get married by actually acknowledging the existence of the spouse in the relationship.