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Sure, the entire known world is at stake through a threat you can't even fathom yet, your own lives aren't doing any better and there's the chance the guy has done something that would disqualify him from being anyone to associate with. Juuust the right time to f*ck...

I would have given a bonus point for that bit of representation (It is after all a bit refreshing after the blatant, homophobic pseudo-one back in Blausteinkriege 2) but the way it was done + the bi-erasure-y undertone taste sour.

I still have a bit of a hard time wrapping my head around just why exactly magic even exists in the story's world. It feels superfluous looking at what it is 'commonly' used for, not important enough on a regular basis to justify the whole plot going on with it.

What a totally great analogy. Especially since either leads to gruesome deaths and misery. Let's see if the author remembers that element or if he just tried to stretch the page count...

I'm positively surprised. The first chapter still has some of the technical problems I know the author still has not dropped, but overall it read a lot better, smoother and more entertaining than the first book in its entirety.