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Ylva
is 95% done
Jay Ackroyd’s fakeout Jetboy self-sacrifice moment genuinely scariest 2 pages of this whole series. please don’t take the GRRM character writing & leave me here with post-Zelazny-era-cardboard-cutout Croyd, same Hartmann character beat on infinite loop, and impending Zoe/Billy Ray endgame. he can’t die yet, I still have Mark Meadows POVs to power through
— Jan 30, 2026 09:32AM
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Ylva
is 82% done
Literally impossible to do an impactful reveal or plot twist in this series atp because every 10 pages or so it will be like 'Croyd's back and he's an [cue whichever writer has current custody spinning the Croyd roulette wheel] eight-legged camel now!' and the reaction of any given character is invariably just UGH he is always doing this 🙄
— Jan 28, 2026 12:40PM
Ylva
is 59% done
It wouldn't be WILD CARDS if they weren't all tied up in random B-plots, but this is the first book where it's not really clear to me how any of these characters are moving the main plot forward
— Jan 23, 2026 12:01PM
Ylva
is 29% done
Being locked into the GRRM extended universe is so fun because why is his proto-Jaime PI character working to stop a global conspiracy together with a character with the same first and last name as Bloodraven's mother from the (extended) Targaryen family tree
— Jan 01, 2026 07:53AM