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So far: amazing! I wanted something a bit dark and a bit bloody, but not too much over the top, and so far, so good.

Hmmmm wordy. But supposedly it gets better, so I'll give it a longer chance.

This had better be YA because all the characters are immature and annoying in that same manner—already

How many metaphors is too many? I counted 23 in the first chapter alone. That seems a bit high.

Having difficulty with the prose, difficulty caring about the story.

"I'm fair sure anything that speaks can be silenced."

Again, I'd classify this as "weirdness" versus "horror".

I'm skimming a bit at the moment. Instead of "endless terror" it's more "weird, with some terror every now and then". But slow and sloooow...

The only thing I've learned from this book is that I don't want to be a ranger.

So far just your run of the mill treasure hunter meets supernatural badass. As much as that may sound like sarcasm, I'm legitimately not impressed. Yet.

Pretty sure I'm done with this. But we'll give it another day or two.

Halfway in I'm not sure what's going on or how some of the characters even connect. Worse, we've started introducing new characters that don't connect, and the story's getting muddier by the page. While the culture and language worked extremely well, and the premise was interesting, the execution just was not there. For me, at least.

I've actually begun to quite enjoy this recently. The day-night personality swap makes for a good and certainly new mechanic that has been keeping things entertaining. And the world-building is pretty good too. Except for the religion—the author just ripped off Christianity and didn't even bother changing any names.

Always good to end the year on a low point!

Ye gods this book has 7 POVs—all first person

Aaaaaaa who are all these people?? I don't remember... WHERE AM I GOING TO HAVE TO START OVER

I thought this was about ice?

How come every culture's origin story seems to contain incest?

Never has a book so thoroughly confused me in the first few pages. I'm not sure, but I think it started with the term 'Competitive Librarying' and the following explanation of this "game".

omg this book

Very predictable. Too much so.

So far a pretty predictable post-apocalyptic story that I'm having trouble keeping focused on. At the moment, looks like a probable DNF

Wow this book really picked up. AND it rewarded me for throwing the last book at the wall. Impressive!

Well, pretty sure this ain't my kinda thing. Not too bad, though.

I like the story arcs a lot more than those in the first book, but I'm not really sure where they've come from, or how they've come about. So, uh.

WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG TO READ THIS

So far, so, so much better than Queen of Fire.

Stalling a bit. Not the book's fault, but I probably won't have a review by the release date.