Leilin’s Reviews > Wearing the Lion > Status Update

It's not groundbreaking and it's not very subtle. It's also not really making use of the setting (this could happen almost anywhere/when) but I will say that it does feel heartfelt. I didn't feel that come through as much / at all from Someone You Can Build a Nest In, so this is an improvement imo. I think it is perfectly fine for what it sets out to be (I just don't personally seek this in my readings)

There should be a quotas on how many "convenient interruptions" you can use to derail and delay your plot's resolution. We're way beyond any number that would still be dignified at this point.

In the last 7% I listened to, we got three (3) more!
- incidentally confirming that the 50% mark event should have been the ending. We're only keeping this going because we're still 5 labors short and it shows.

I sure hope we are going somewhere with this fervently religious Heracles angle: he's quite the (unironic/non-satirical) Pangloss rn.

Not sure where we're going with Hera either.

Previous novel from this author was suffering from the need to keep all main characters likeable, even if it got in the way of depth and interesting themes to explore... are we correcting this? I'm not confident rn, but we shall see.

I wanted to give this a try but 1) this is not what the blurb claimed? (monsters are being slain rn), 2) nobody is likeable so far, and this is not a book profound enough to afford not having likeable characters, 3) the male narrator's choice of a voice and breathing pattern for Heracles is... well a choice - not holding it against the book though.

I think this is going to be my calling it quit with this author :/