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Leilin
is 33% done
I'm curious about what exactly happened and what lives in that house, but the writing is extremely grating: this author cannot, for her life, write a sentence without a metaphor or comparison of some kind. Talk about overwritten. This is ridiculous! I think I might have to DNF and just look up a summary...
— Aug 12, 2026 09:36PM
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Leilin
is 42% done
I don't think this book has any sentence that doesn't have a figure of speech (similes mostly). It has to be breaking some kind of record.
— Aug 14, 2026 03:05PM
Leilin
is on page 6 of 416
I liked the first, modern chapter (which was kept a bit more contained by its abundance of dialogue) but when the book goes into the past, the writing escapes into an abundance of overdone lyricism and try-hard similes that add nothing. This is disappointing: we had a good premise. Going to give this more time and see if the author manages to reign it in.
— Aug 07, 2026 06:09PM