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Arti
is 40% done
MC spent the first parts of this book mentioning how she's a schoolmistress/teacher and literally just mentioned "but then again I wasn't good in school". So which is it. I really dislike this book. Hate our main character. Really hate the prose.
— Feb 04, 2026 07:00AM
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Arti
is 93% done
"You can no more understand it than you can smoke a painting of pipe." HORRIBLE analogy. You can smoke a painting of a pipe, actually, meaning you can tell me what the hell you're looking at and let me decide how I see it in my mind instead of lazily telling me "you'd never get it".
— Feb 04, 2026 11:11AM
Arti
is 93% done
This book would have really benefitted from just dedicating itself to telling us the story. The amount of times now that the main character has told me that there is "no way" to explain or express what they experienced, it's just putting me off. At some point it feels like you are gatekeeping your own worldbuilding. I get that it's in space and not real, but this is a bothersome quality of the book overall.
— Feb 04, 2026 11:09AM
Arti
is 88% done
I'm increasingly fed up with how often the main character will mention a well known saying in modern times but then have to follow it up with "but I don't know what that is". So you're fucking telling me that this civilization has been like this for How long and those sayings haven't been coopted into current culture? This book is so bad.
— Feb 04, 2026 10:32AM
Arti
is 65% done
Still can't get through a single chapter without mentioning sex. It's overdone and is not serving any real purpose in this story. It's making me so angry honestly! Sex can have a purpose! It genuinely seems as though it's included for NO reason MOST of the time in this book. This book would be considerably shorter and easier to get through if it wasn't so prevalent.
— Feb 04, 2026 08:51AM
Arti
is 44% done
Has there been literally a SINGLE chapter that doesn't mention sex, fucking, or orgasms? I'm so over it. I'm genuinely so over how much sex is in this book.
— Feb 04, 2026 07:21AM
Arti
is 22% done
I am so sad to admit that I think this book is turning me away from Alexis Hall's other works. I'm just not a fan of the prose. Her other works are not a priority for me to get to unfortunately. I wanted so badly to love this.
— Feb 04, 2026 06:34AM
Arti
is 8% done
I could say many wonderful things about this book so far. I won't because I do not like this book at all. I'm so bored and unenthused.
— Feb 04, 2026 06:09AM
Arti
is 4% done
Where the hell is the kissing coming from. Weird. Real strange. Don't love this voice.
— Feb 03, 2026 12:16PM
