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Todd
is 50% done
More ranting to do but limited by character count. At one point Alina has a “rivalry” with another girl and then somehow beats her in hand to hand combat despite us being told that she’s dreadful at it, and the other girl is the star pupil, and the whole thing takes literally 5 pages. There’s no build up or building tension, the vignette just gets barfed out. The whole book feels this way so far.
— Jun 09, 2025 09:36PM
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Todd
is 50% done
This book is not good. There’s supposedly a lot of drama with mysterious dark magic plaguing a war-torn land, but most of the pages are spent with an insecure girl fixated on silly things. The #1 most important topic of the book based on time allocated would be the stupid keftas, the clothes the Grisha wear, what color they are, etc.
— Jun 09, 2025 09:32PM
