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What the— 500-page resolution hinges on a pratfall?

A literal chase.

I just looked it up: in 2017, a computer cracked a sentence on the German Enigma machine in 10 minutes.

So now we’re suddenly inferring and alluding?

You know what I noticed? This chapter had almost no descriptions. Now that I think about it, what’s the description ratio in the rest of the book?

Ugh. So now we have the Team coming together to defeat the Bad Guy.

Boo. Take the favor. What’s this, a western?

Groan.

So. Nothing else matters and we’re finally fully in the critical plot.

Jail Break!

I was wondering how it would end since the pages were running out and there had been no new information. How simple to have the bad guy monologue all of it.

Boo. What’s this? A Bond villain?

So many problems you’re glad these people don’t exist.

It’d be fun with the traitor was her friend Mab or Osla.

Meh. Beth should have just waited the clock out, but that might’ve been too muddy for the author.

Ch 65. You know what I like about this chapter? When you realize, oh yeah, how could these women forget that Men are the enemies.

Hm. So the timing is that they interview them minutes after a major fight. What.

Ooh, menstruation is a novel narrative device.

Yes, yes, we’re repeating ourselves for the fourth time now.

A countdown clock for some reason

This is why authors love Royalty. It’s such an easy conflict.

I’m not sure what’s going with Giles. What a creep

Wah wah, Harry.

Why do white authors like blue eyes so much?

Everytime Osla lingers on Philip like he’s a handsome man, I laugh a little. It’s funny to note that the author did her homework and the floating raft trick was revealed in 2008.

Is wanting to have sex after your husband dies Common enough to be considered a trope?

This makes me think that the author got bored with her own story and now this book is going off on tangents. This chapter could be a different book and I wouldn’t have noticed.

Right. Is it something that publishers push on authors? Does every character need a secret trauma? We already have a betrayer, and a secret between friends.

I’m not expecting an essay, but i wish this book had an idea or two.

The author is saying Vikings were tanned dark. What.