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Wait HAHAHAHA 😂 I’m listening to this book and the narrator just pronounced kludgy not as “cloodgie” but as rhyming with pudgy. What a charming little mistake.

I really don’t feel like finishing this. Do not get the hype even remotely.

So I am to buy that this is a society in which they use ink pots and quills and also say “for the win?” I don’t. I don’t buy this.

I also have the same issue with this book as I do with Red Rising: the basic premise that to get to the best of the best in your elite military ranks, you have your cadets kill each other? Fight to the death?? Rather than putting your SECOND BEST in the INFANTRY or something, your cause is better served by them being DEAD??? FOR WHY????

Let’s make some predictions, shall we? Xaden is obviously a love interest and does not murder our main girl, Vi. We know this because he’s mYsTeRiOuS aNd BrOoDiNg (and has dark hair). We are also going to get some kind of Ender’s Game twist in this series where the enemy is not evil and everyone fighting for the cause has been lied to! Also, this is bad so far.

Hearing Andy Serkis, famed voice of Gollum, narrate “Riddles in the Dark” is just a treat. This audiobook is so fun.

Listing to the audiobook narrated by Andy Serkis, and he is just marvelous. His Bilbo is so lovable, and the humor in Tolkien’s writing is delightful with his delivery. I’m discovering new charms that I didn’t get from my initial reading. Loving it.

Like all Carlo Rovelli’s work, this is an absolute delight.

Why does all the action happen off the page for the reader to just learn about it my characters telling each other?! I want to throw this book. I’ve said, “this is so stupid” aloud while reading this multiple times.

This book is Twilight levels of cringe. I just don’t buy the central romance at all, making this entire book impossible to stand. Everything is eye roll inducing.