Callum Porter’s Reviews > Malarkoi > Status Update

I'd say the majority of the book is explaining people's esoteric experience.
It be like "Imagine an orb with no surface and of complete light entering a pool, the sizzling pain the waves feel are not dissimilar to what Jon was feeling in these moment as his weft stuff exploded into a million pieces. Felt is not quite the right word as weft stuff cannot feel. In short he was shot but not quite shot"

I think I can say that Soft Magic > Hard Magic for me.
Not to say there aren't rules, but I really don't need to know the exact ways that a characters twitching butthole effected the slight deviations in their spell.
Just call the spell something like "And then I had a pleasant afternoon" and have it turn everyone into jam because you really need the character to turn everyone into Jam right now.

Bitches be like "If I don't use the proper bronze alloy on my mud vats the incantation rings will be inscribed perpendicular to my original calculations. I must create a clone self, but not without the proper intangible wefting measures or else the material world will become out of sink with the interdicting planes"
But then get distracted because they hate the MC so much they seethe and fuck the entire thing up.

Immediately more entertaining. I'm not sure if the different perspective is what's giving the story some life, the lack of Nathan who was a rather boring character, or a combination of the two.

Including the villain as a perspective character was an entertaining choice.

The book starts with some assassins doing a bunch of smack and getting stuck in a tunnel while a tiny woman cleans them.

It seems more structured, with chapter titles and such.
The Epilogue name is a spoiler though, I don't get what Pheby's obsession with putting character deaths in titles and summaries is.

Don't read the plot summary of this book, it literally spoils the ending of the first one