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Rtc but how??? Can it just finish here???? Just when things were beginning to stitch together??? I guess I’m totally onboard and eager to devour the sequel now.

“Mycroft!” I do cry to thee “thou truly are indeed the master torturer, for how can thee just leave us here?”

I stand by what I said in that I would protect Cato for the rest of time. My poor babey.

*Snort* I'm glad there's a self call-out at the porn at least. Just feel sorry if any of the cars near me, while sitting in traffic, overheard. :')

Curious that despite the build up, then the reveal of the horrors he inflicted, I don't want Mycroft to die - certainly not at the hands of Dominic. I mean, obviously he's narrating this entire history, but still, the sentiment remains.

Well. Got a good chunk down after being trapped in traffic for neigh on 3 hours for what is usually a 25min drive. Wonderful.

Talk about Carlyle and the very bad no good day.

I also take a small amount of delight in that reading Sherlock is on my immediate horizon.

Well guess who was just made to eat shit on his last thoughts. (Me, it was me.)

Hello sweet delicious irony in the fact I had bared my frustrations just before that reveal, and then of course Mycroft's 'expectation' that I was to leave.

And so, the veil of ambiguity is torn away and we learn of Mycroft's crimes. Just a little severe. Yikes.

My previous frustrations still remain, but overall more interesting again.

On one hand, I feel like I need to give this a break bc even still I am frankly struggling to give a shit.

It intermittently has small moments of actual interest, but outside of that it's just a lot of noise.

On the other hand, if I do give it a break, that will break me away from the intricate flow of the narrative & struggle to get back into it.

I want to be given a reason, by the book, why I should give a fuck.

I’ve yet to find any kind of emotional connection to this, which I find is hampering my experience.

I'm really enjoying this, and turns out that enjoying it in larger chunks at a time is even better, slipping into that flow of the narrative.

But one thing I find particularly contrived & absolutely trying far too hard is the breakdowns and "translations of gender" while trying to come across as futuristic conceptual, how beyond they are..etc it simply isn't organic and feels insincere - its distracting at times.

Poor Mycroft, will he ever get to eat? lol

With my schedule so off this week all I’ve been able to manage is a chapter a day really. But interesting how little bits of information and story is already beginning to weave, look forward to the inevitability of more of that