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aja
is on page 168 of 480
confident this has been designed in a lab to irritate me in particular. as a whole it's fine -- the action sequences are good, and i like the characters. but as someone who is both pedantic and familiar enough with the source material to have a good sense for when things are off i think i'm like. the worst kind of reader for this book lol. also we just hit the start of the real plot like. 30 pages ago. good grief
— May 13, 2026 10:57AM
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aja
is on page 67 of 480
very nitpicky complaint here but why, in a book of norse-allegory, are we italicizing the non-english old norse/icelandic words. i hate when we do that in general bc it's so othering but like. the people whose POVs we are reading know what a knarr is. they know what hird means. esp when other words like berserk (WHICH IS NORSE) and weregild are not, this feels so jarring & just keeps taking me out of the story.
— May 09, 2026 09:13PM
aja
is on page 20 of 480
not 100% sold on this yet but i'm willing to forgive quite a bit for a fun romp through a norse-inspired fantasy so we shall see how this goes
— May 08, 2026 06:56AM
