King Crusoe > Recent Status Updates

Gone through 15% of the book in just 2 days. With how things have gone for me the past...over a month now, that feels really great. I aim to be done with the Mataro Captivity arc (as I have deigned to call the third quarter of the book) tomorrow, though I likely won't be able to manage quite *that much*.

Even so...feeling great. I think finishing before June is actually in the cards.

Myrmidon arc now complete. Maybe finishing by end of month is possible…we shall see.

The street urchin and myrmidon sections really are mini-arcs that compose a whole, man. Each is half as long as any of the other 3 major arcs of the books, no matter how much longer they felt in memory.

It feels like an entire month since I’ve properly picked up any book at all lmao

So I have finally continued and been bad at updating as per usual. Street urchin mini-arc is done and I’m a couple chapters into the myrmidon mini-arc

Probably won’t finish until mid-June at this point but end of May is still the target.

Well, read 1 extra chapter than I had thought I would for the third diary video on the book...because it made sense.

And I'm on the final stretch. Godwilling, I'll finish the book on Sunday.

Realized I've been forgetting to update this the last few days. Continuing to make great progress...and surprisingly really enjoying what this book has to offer. I'm liking it a lot more than I should, and maybe even more than it deserves.

But I'm genuinely really enjoying it. Still hoping to finish the book by the end of this weekend. I think it'll be tight...but it's possible.

Over halfway through now, kinda flying by.

Honestly, been surprised by how not bad this is, despite starting a little rocky on account of weird series structure.

Surprisingly, the Perrin plot was almost entirely notably good for this first appearance lol

Little more mixed on this start than I feel like I should be. We’ll see how it continues to go soon.

Thankfully through this mini arc of just Erin by herself at the start. I remember from the first time that when side character start really being introduced was when things started skyrocketing for me, and starting Chapter 7 will be just that moment again 🙌🏻

Well I guess while my eyeball reading time is incredibly limited these next couple months, I’m finally back in the mood for audio stuff again - and so thus begins my journey through the rewrite of Vol. 1 of TWI!

Delos arc done. Will set aside to some degree for now while I primarily read Path of Daggers.

No idea why the Diamond Edition only says 342 pages instead of 542, but that’s okay.

Started another impromptu reread around the time I finished A Tale of Two Cities.

Forgot to update this morning. Very close to done. Not 100% sure yet how I’m gonna feel about this in the end oddly enough.

What tense and twisted turns of affairs!

Finished Part Two, and those last few chapters were pretty explosive!

We'll see what Part Three entails.

Alright now we’re starting to get some conspiracy stuff 👀

I can’t say I was expecting there to be this much of a romance-lite arc to the book lol

Gotta say the book has been a much smoother read thus far than I anticipated it would be.

Well people weren’t lying that it takes a little bit to get going, but I’m done with Part One. No idea at this point what the rest entails but I look forward to it.

After over 2.5 years, I have finally circled back around to this 😁

Some decisions in the back half weren’t totally to my liking, but I overall enjoyed the book. Sitting at 3.5/5, not sure whether that rounds up or down.

Pretty big progress this morning. Oughta be finished before seeing the movie on Sunday.

Honestly, I'm really liking this for what it is. It's like beginner's Andy Weir, which himself is baby's first sci-fi, and it's executed pretty well on that front imo.

Good start. I was expecting this to at least somewhat be in the vein of Andy Weir sci-fi tonally, and I was basically right.

Fun premise, I’m into it so far.

Well that was an interesting direction to take the ending. Not quite what I was expecting, yet still mostly fitting. I'll think on this a little today and write my review this review.

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Coming up on the last act at this point. Only a couple targets left. Excited to see how this goes down.

The book has really hit its stride. Really enjoying where the story’s been going especially with the main character, excited to see more.

Okay, it took about 50 pages into the book for things to really pick up, but I can certainly say I’ve been invested for a good while now

That ending was both exciting and underwhelming at once LMAO

Started this morning. Could see how some topics may potentially be explored with less nuance than I’d prefer, but it’s definitely too early to say. Interesting conceit so far tho.