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Ooof.

I was into the premise, but the execution wasn’t it.

The most romantic part was in the epilogue.

iykyk

Spoiler-y?

There are a few decent ideas/twists in this.

But not enough to justify the world count on this Dramione torture porn Fullmetal Alchemist fusion.

Yes, I got through it. But I have extensive slogging through not great fanfiction training,

>200 pages could have been cut.

It has all of the info-dumping exposition of bad fantasy and the "romance" is unconvincing.

It is so distracting that the resistance forces are called The Eternal Flame.

I can't focus on these torture scenes when I have to constantly stop myself from belting The Bangles song.

‘But to devise a more plausible mystery than The Hound of the Baskervilles or The Purloined Letter should not be too difficult. Nowadays it would be rather more difficult not to. There are no “classics” of crime and detection. Not one.’

Um. That’s one way to write an introduction to your anthology.

I enjoyed this even though it was deeply confusing.

Did I enjoy it? I mostly feel discombobulated but it did keep me engaged. IDK, I might have to think about it/re-read it later.

So, a standard Natasha Pulley experience.

I have a pretty high tolerance for purple prose, but this was such a slog to get through.

‘“All right,” Zeb said reluctantly. “But can we make it quick?” It was not quick. It was a trudge outside, through the clinging mists.’

I love a deadpan bitch being reluctantly dragged through a Gothic Romance, protesting and complaining the whole way.