Status Updates From Year of the Mer

Wondering if I should DNF. It's such a slog to get through compared to my other current reads. I'm cool with unlikeable MCs but goddamn she's mean AND boring? Lmao girl pick a struggle

“...And now Yemi was alone. She might never have made it inside. It would have been nothing for them to launch her over the garden cliffs.”

Sure why not. Literally everyone hates her

“Without ceremony, she stretched his tongue past his lips and sliced clean through it, met by his screams, which faded quickly as he passed out.”

👁️👅👁️

“She could only imagine the throngs of birds being startled to death or fleeing to take equally startled shits over the fields beyond the city.”

Wtf is this sentence 🥴

I can't believe I'm only this far into the book. This is dragging so much 🥲

“He was a squat man with thinning white hair and a complexion somewhere between tomato and eggplant, depending on his frequently elevated blood pressure.”

😐

“...Their expressions always transformed into politely horrified ones when Weaver presented Yemi with a washing bowl for her hands and the assembled priests proceeded to pass it around, drinking the sweet, perfumy, sometimes ash-laced concoction.”

Wtf 🤢