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To me this book is written in such a way that it reminds me of one of those Peer Pressure or Sexual Harassment videos we watched in high school- the topic is important but it's so poorly executed that it is hard to enjoy.

Wow I hate this book but I'm a completionist so here we go!

I really want to like this more than I do but I must confess I am rather bored :(

This is FASCINATING!

Gave this book a quick 27 page glance last night after pulling it off my shelf and I have to say I was completely riveted. I'm excited about the pace and depth of world building in the first 27 pages, seems like a very devourable book that will show instead of tell. Can't wait to annihilate this one!

Please tell me the writing improves and the plot gets better, otherwise I don't think I can make it through. I'm jumping into book 2 after watching the series based on book 1. The Netflx series was good, but thinking this might be a story that translates much better to the screen than to the page.

I just don't know if I can get through this one and on to the rest of the series. It's aggravating and I really don't care for Thor oh I mean Wulfgar at all. A whole book about him and his depression? Uggghhhhgg.

I am listening to the audio book and have to say, I feel warm and at home. Coming from a food-centric partially Italian family, this is so welcoming and I often smile, feeling like I'm about to sit down and enjoy one of my dad's countless gourmet masterpieces. It feels like it is written in my mother tongue :)

"I'd like to think I will never remember this particular moon, seen from the particular angle of this balcony on this night, but if I forget, I will never know that I've forgotten, as is the nature of forgetting. I've forgotten so much-almost all I've seen. Experience washes over us in great waves. Memory is a drop caught in a flask, concentrated and briny, nothing like the fresh abundance from which it came." Pg 284

I love that this takes place in my back yard, the local references are thrilling but it's otherwise very boring. Hoping it picks up!

This book is honestly too complicated and there are WAY too many characters for my taste, all with multiple names. There are still gems hidden within so I'm not totally giving up, but I am definitely in skim mode. Feels like work.

"But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me."

What a crunchy, salty litte snack this series is. I can't read less than 50 pages in a sitting, and if I didnt have a demanding toddler, I'd devour it in a sitting. It's not brilliant but it's easy to read and very entertaining.