Sam’s Reviews > Rosemary & Iron > Status Update

plot is progressed jarringly abruptly and through dialogue (like i can tell what the author might want to set up essentially?) in chapters 17 and 18– feels like certain emotional aspects of turmoil should have been dealt with by narrating characters with greater focus. typos on pages 94 and 237 (course instead of coarse, amble instead of ample) likely would have been caught with more editing.

i picked up reading again after a hot second and jumped like 150 pages. still trying to figure out if the writing style is “appropriately mature enough” for what i expected? i’m enjoying it so far but being 200 pages in, i’m wondering if the world-building to establish background for the existence of magic will really show up in non-expository or force-fed ways. still enjoying it though.

typo on page 50 ... we move ..... i'm liking this so far, i've only just hit the time travel part and i'm interested to see more of the past explored

that was chapter 1-- definitely a lot of world-building going on and establishment of past events but nothing stifling or boring so i'm intrigued and i like it so far. i think i'll have a better idea of who our narrator is after another few chapters

been a hot freaking second since ive read a more hardcore fantasy novel w an actual magic system and especially one involving time travel. really interested. anticipating a slower development arc in general since this book is like 400+ pages