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Andi
is 10% done
this book is driving me crazy because what are we doing here! why is this popular! islington wants me to be so impressed with this protag ender's game-style but he's so bland and there's nothing to like about him. no sense of pacing or scale. main chars are perfect and so smug. no culture, visuals, or wonder in this world. there's no flavor! brutalist authoritarian society, yes, but i don't feel fear or dread either
— Feb 03, 2026 10:53AM
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Andi
is 77% done
"Anyone who looks at a system of people and thinks the system is the problem, is a fool." If this is the thesis statement, I'm strapped in for the sheer "oh dear" of it all. I think it's possible to frame up this argument, but I don't think this is the author to do it, and I'm morbidly curious to read with a straight face that you gotta Get the bad guys at the tip top to Fix Everything. Sanderson IS his influence...
— Feb 12, 2026 06:30PM
Andi
is 23% done
baffled at this writing style. immediate, bare bones yet the pacing is glacial. togas, tunics, the Eternal Flame, fantasy Latin are reminders that this world is magic "Roman" but the writing spends all its time on Vis laboriously thinking through inconsequential manipulations and keeps speeding past hints and summaries of history/culture. Vis woke up and sat in a bath with no mention of clothing? hard to be absorbed
— Feb 05, 2026 08:15PM
Andi
is 6% done
3 chapters in and this is pissing me offffff. if this was written by a woman and had a female protagonist, this would be on the YA shelf! cardboard prose. faceless gary stu protagonist with anger issues. the girl who sees sweaty naked men all day every day blushes and stammers at the mere sight of him. looooong fight and training scenes. "epic fantasy" "adult sci-fantasy" go home everybody you're drunk
— Feb 02, 2026 05:58PM
