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Cool so I dislike Zayne even more than I already did

Switched to audio to make faster progress. Won’t be continuing after this book, I’m just annoyed at this point

“Backwards Appalachians lynch enlightened Northern Yankees” is not the win you think it is. I’m so tired of classist books like this.

I hate all these characters and I’m so tired of listening to them argue

The way Rachel and Finn treat Charlie is so awful and I hope The Charlie Thing ™ eats her parents.

I want so badly to like this but I’m 200 pages in and it’s just overstuffed romantic trope salad with very little plot development. Please stop talking about Zayne’s (ughhhh not more MMC’s with Z/X names) abs and give me PLOT PROGRESSION I BEG

First hour is just character exposition. Way too much character exposition. Show me, don’t tell me every single detail about these characters. Ughh

This isn’t bad, but it’s definitely meant for non-disabled allies. That isn’t a bad thing at all, just not what was expected.

The Five Nights at Freddy’s book trilogy did this same concept and somehow did it better I’m screaming

Wait. Does this house have no windows they can smash and crawl out of? I can suspend disbelief long enough to believe a robotics engineer and a computer software tycoon can’t debug a system, but I can’t believe that’s the only way to get out of the evil robot house.

This book is like one of those horror movies you find on Tubi when you’re looking for a totally different horror movie but this is all they have

Yeah, this is gonna suck. Annoying whiny protag with an unlikable cheating wife? The robot just up and says “I’m possessed!” and there’s nothing about how it came to be that way? Things happening with no connection or reason? Thank god it’s a short book.

So it turns out only the first story is about The King in Yellow and is anything approaching horror. All the rest of just mind-numbing boring short stories about rich aristocrats doing rich aristocrat stuff. Literally just story after story of word after word that adds up to nothing. I’m baffled.