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Gotta be honest, the stop and go nature of short story collections doesn’t really hold my attention even when I enjoy the stories (and some of the stuff in here is really good). Gonna keep this going as a secondary read and start in on a novel.

The first two short stories in this collection are pretty good! You can really hear McBride’s voice come through in the writing.

While I am enjoying this series immensely, there are moments with painfully poor editing. Maybe it’s just with the Kindle edition, and things got fixed for physical copies, but there are sentences here and there which make no sense or are just fragments, and should’ve been caught by someone doing very basic proof reading.

I am extremely skeptical of LitRPG as a genre, but so far this isn’t as heavy on the stat listings and whatnot as I was worried it would be. Definitely seems like the type of quick summer read I needed!

While I have no desire to see the new movie adaptation, its release has been a good reminder that I’ve been meaning to read this for a while.

It’s been around 20 years since I read my dad’s old paperback copy of this, so I figured I was overdue to revisit it.

Really enjoying the little stories sprinkled in about young Gordon Ramsay being instructed to cuss out a customer or beat up some hooligans who mooned the restaurant.