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The number of laugh-out-loud moments in this is so high

This isn't quite whimsical enough to be Northern Exposure meets epic fantasy, but let's call it a slightly more grim take on that.

Read the preface and oof. The view that Europe has turned away from nation-state politics and toward identifying as societies hits some kinda way in our current state ten years on from when he wrote that.

I picked this up on a rec from a couple romantasy girlies, which is why I am persisting past the prologue, which was just fingernails-on-chalkboard bad to my taste - 150-proof info-dumping with ornate prose peppered with clunky word choices. I cannot convey how much I hated it. But I do like to give a second chance for a prologue style switch.

Hmm, maybe I'm just not in the zone but the action is not grabbing me in this one.

Oh. Oh this is GREAT.

I am struggling to connect with this, but there's a chance that's just prose-hangover so I'm going to give it another day... but ehhhh