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Leilin
is 86% done
I'm having a hard time buying Rory's turn into a controlling person - on paper, with his past, it makes a lot of sense... but as it unfolds before the reader's eyes, I feel it's a bit more of a set destination for him than an organic development?
Also, for a book that spend so much time trying to describe nature in a very sensorial way, how does it have so little of an actual sense of place??
— Jun 02, 2026 11:43AM
Also, for a book that spend so much time trying to describe nature in a very sensorial way, how does it have so little of an actual sense of place??
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Leilin
is 63% done
This is a tragic story of love and dependence more than it is horror, and tbh at this point I don't wish it to go full horror as it doesn't seem to fit with the characters, as they have been so far...
— May 27, 2026 07:05PM
Leilin
is 32% done
So far, it's all been pretty twee. I am assuming we are going somewhere with this, but it's not a fast development (though I think we are seeing the first seeds of darker things to come).
It's a fairly binomial type of worldbuilding: interesting society glimpsed in the faraway background + minimal cast floating there in a bubble at the front. No in between. It's not bad, but it doesn't do interrogating it too much.
— May 26, 2026 09:06AM
It's a fairly binomial type of worldbuilding: interesting society glimpsed in the faraway background + minimal cast floating there in a bubble at the front. No in between. It's not bad, but it doesn't do interrogating it too much.
