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I'm also really struggling with the complete modernity that people in the 15th century are displaying, there's no reason in the story for it to be happening. They're using whole giant concepts that didn't exist then.

Page after page after page of exposition. This needed a much better editor.

Entertaining but I'm having a lot of trouble keeping track of all of the many random Jims, Joes and Janes who keep popping up 100 pages after they were mentioned in passing one time.

Wheeler rights well but his female characters are distressing, I'm not sure I can continue.

The women in these books, in as much as there are any, sure don't have ANY agency.

Will Ransom ever not trust someone?

This thing continues to move right along and continues to be such a fun throwback knights in armour joint, just with them classic misogyny toned down a lot. I usually don't enjoy YA and I'm not entirely sure if this is but it's a lot of fun. Ransom sure does have a knack for ending up in the middle of it all the time.

I don't know anything about this or why it's in my library, but it's so far kind of a delightful old-fashioned nights in armor throwback.

This is a very hard read, it's so obtuse.

Paolini does not know how to end a novel.

I'm abashed that it took me so long to figure out that this book is torture porn. The ends do not justify the means.

This thing is absolutely all over the place, it's so corny, I can't help but love it.

It's funny sometimes you get little flashes of YA in what is aggressively not a YA novel.

I'm kinda starting to think this is a stupid book about nothing.

I am having an issue with the constant use of hypnosis as a plot device, as it's being treated as magic that can accomplish anything.

This is my second time trying to read The Mercy of Gods, and I'm finding it just as hard to get into this time.

I cannot believe this disaster ever saw an editor.

Why do I keep reading these? I'm already infuriated by the glaring oversights. It's a future space war book, and they don't use stuff that we have right now.

And exactly what you thought was going to happen, happened. I cannot believe this got through developmental editing.

I'm going to be very disappointed if yet again everyone fails to think of something that should be glaringly obvious, but it sure feels like we're getting set up for that.

Once again I am profoundly annoyed at Kloos for setting up what seems like it's going to be a crucial plot point and then completely forgetting about it. I don't know if it's a failure of imagination or editing, but it's a failure.

Once again, it feels like Kloos' has run out of imagination and isn't properly able to use the tools he created for his characters. Something broke down in the editorial process that no one said, "Hey why are you doing it this way?"

Marko Kloos writes some good space combat, but there are some deeply frustrating issues with how he uses Hecate. It's like he forgot everything he promised for it.

This has devolved abruptly into '70s sci-fi style body horror and I am so repulsed I'm having a difficult time not throwing the book into the trash. I will never read this author again.

Getting into my second Daniel Suarez book, and I'm realizing that there might be a lot of suffering in Daniel Suarez books.

So far this is a toxic mix of sexism and classism.