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sugarjxd
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Like this doesn't feel like a sprawling story of time and space! Why? Because they keep talking like joss whedon characters! They keep saying making unsubtle references, and using metaphors that seem clumsy. Page 32 - "once, horsemen broke on fortifications like waves against a cliff. (most of these men have not seen waves, or cliffs, but travellers bear stories from distant lands)." like is this even good writing?
— Oct 19, 2025 05:14AM
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sugarjxd
is on page 33 of 209
I also don't like how I can't tell the difference between red and blue. At the intro, blue is clandestine, conniving, flirtatious. Red is covered in viscera and concerned of the illicitness of their contact. But then as soon as contact is established, red becomes as sarcastic, flirty and dry as blue, and stops showing any misgivings of their contact. They feel like the same voice. Ugh
— Oct 19, 2025 05:11AM
sugarjxd
is on page 32 of 209
Only 32 pages in but I regret spending $22 on this. I don't like the style. I don't like the millennial coded pithy quippy referential-ness. My personal pet-peeve is feeling like I cannot immerse in a story because they keep jarringly bringing me back to ham-fisted meta and too many references to things that I cannot suspend my belief to accept - strand 6 nineteenth century literature. Quips about Toronto sucking?
— Oct 19, 2025 05:07AM