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there was another woman. however her fifty pages of existence could be summed up with 'she lived. she served cunt. she died'. could have been a rather fascinating character, but alas. it was not to be.
— Sep 21, 2025 03:27AM
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lucas
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finally going to finish this today. but first. must meet up with the kayaker who desires me . at spoons, no less. to determine whether or not he is worthy
— Sep 22, 2025 04:51AM
lucas
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the plot has picked up a little now, but the characters. i am a character-driven reader. i want to be able to pick apart a character's beliefs and motivations and little ideosyncracies. i care a lot about plot, of course, but i struggle to care about the plot and grow curious when the characters are one-dimensional. and, well, there is potential for intrigue, but nobody lives up to it. at least not yet
— Sep 21, 2025 07:08AM
lucas
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there's a sweet little speech from kuni about respecting women, and yet there are only two named female characters so far: an old tavern owner who has had maybe five lines of dialogue, and kuni's wife who has had precious little page time on account of being pregnant. ken, you can do better than this. surely you can do better than this.
— Sep 20, 2025 07:40AM
lucas
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enjoying the concept of this book but it is difficult to immerse myself in when it keeps jumping between perspectives. if it were just a handful of characters, fair enough, but there have been at least seven povs (not counting the gods) in less than two hundred pages. which means there isnt enough time to really get to know the characters or begin to care about them. plus the random mid-chapter pov switches.
— Sep 19, 2025 06:02AM
lucas
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finished writing the first draft of the first chapter of my novel. turned three a4 pages of outline into almost twenty a5 pages of vague words. beginning to think that drafting by hand was not my finest idea but i refuse to turn back now
— Sep 18, 2025 10:39AM
lucas
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mata seems like he could be a character i grow fond of. however. eight feet tall ???
— Sep 17, 2025 09:57AM
lucas
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i think a kayaker is trying to ask me out on a date. or maybe he just really wants to drink whiskey. uncertain
— Sep 16, 2025 12:53PM
lucas
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it has been a while since i last delved into a new (to me) fantasy series, and this one has been on my shelf for a few months now. i have high hopes
— Sep 15, 2025 11:33AM
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Sep 21, 2025 06:04AM
i immediately want to know more about this diva from your description alone. i fear this is what these authors don't understand
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kxtera wrote: "i immediately want to know more about this diva from your description alone. i fear this is what these authors don't understand"will try to keep it brief, though this may spoil a minor plotline in the book. a character is introduced as the seventeen-year-old princess of one of the island nation-states in this empire, famed for her beauty, told to give up on her education and joy to make herself even more beautiful. she has a conversation with the goddess of beauty who tries to make her beauty inspirational, but neither of them think too deeply about it. her island gets invaded, she tries to seduce the invader, fails, gets sent to another city as a femme fatale to save her people's lives, does an assassination, and dies. so she is set up as this tragic figure, but it all happens in such a short space of time (less than 10% of the book) that none of it actually holds a whole lot of weight
