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Im over a hundred pages in, not all of it is sticking with me. I understand the premise, but otherwise confused. Still enjoyable. Will return to it in future.

Great book so far! I love the protagonist's disdain for life, and the Magus' disdain for novels! Nice irony.

Unreally heavygoing throughout.
Highly enjoyable.
Brutal. Inspiring.

imagine blowing bubbles on a glass lift... ok now breathe slowly... that is this book...

Back on the 'aul cart once again. I'm predicting that i WILL finish it before the year is over, but MY, what an epic grind it gets after roughly 400 pages. Often feels like a treasure hunt, those little sections that gleam with incredible clarity. But it is part of the book's weakness, i think, that entire sections can be skipped with no damage to my overall grasp of the content. I approach it as, and at my leisure.

Writing that's very smokey and often, I can't really figure out what's been said, or why... the words choices are palatable, but I'm barely able to get a clear view of the subject matter. These are often the most fun books to read, and it's not like I'm not getting anything from it. It is like a personal chunk of veiny, sinewy flesh taken from one Shani Oates' traditional backdrop of the Clan of Tubal Cain...

Enjoyed the first 100+ pages of the Ruby Knight so much i had to start at the beginning of the series. (Thought that might happen...)
This is the first real fantasy series I'm really getting into. Gripping, snappy, action-filled pages. Loving it immensely.

Great so far, gripping actually. Could this be the spark that ignites a love of fantasy literature? Only time will tell...

On to Part 3! Looking forward to seeing how it all ends! Could go any way tbh...

"Maybe I should have followed him; but somehow it went from toosoon to too late, without the right moment in between."
This book really picks up at the second part. I found myself reading it last night at around 5am. The air of sickness present in the first part has healed, and understandably, the book experience is better off for it.

I haven't read a book as undemanding as this in a long time.
It's nice, pleasant to read. The protagonist, Emmet, has been sick through the entirety of what I've read thus far. The book seems to attempt to acquire a gilding of "magic", or something, from the floral word-arranging around his illness' symptoms...

Undoubtedly sublime to read, oftentimes confusing. Keywords give the story some light, as it's a snake of a train of thought, flashing and crawling quickly through ideas, smells, equipment, items...
What I believe has happened in this last chunk I read: some drinking, some singing, some music, lots of tapping (from where?) and a sense of relief at leaving the bar and walking on the streets of Dublin once more...