Grace Btrs (semi ia - mostly overwhelmed)’s Reviews > Songs of the Dead > Status Update

To DNF or to skim, that is the question

Emaline: serious life-and-death conversation ongoing
Jack in his mind: her jaw was beautifully strong snd her cheeks had dimples

Lol men🤦🏻‍♀️

Why did the authors decide to associate Egyptian archeology and artificats with "cheap magic and spiritual illusions
And make that the imagery to say Low amusement seem to be replacing art and history
Hmm...

The concepts are so amazing
Too bad the writing is... bad? Sucks? Unnecessarily complicated? Trying too much?

The info dump is giving me a headache...
I think I can only explain 2-3 things of the million things we learned.
Also clearly in the original version (the ARC I have) they had missed so many important things to the point the final version (audio) is HEAVILY edited

Listening to the audio while having the early ARC copy. They made quite a few changes and I can say they're well placed changes so far

What's with normalising self-harm?
He keeps snapping rubber bands on his wrists... dude...

Magic system is fascinating
But I wish Brandon and Peter bothered to spend a tiny bit of time explaining some things or put an intro with key musical expressions
I can also spot many Metal easter eggs #ThankYouPaul

Why do male authors get away with not providing Content Warning in their books and websites?
This is outrageous.
And this book is dealing with gorey on page sel-harm scenes and other topics (drugs, death, alcoholism, etc) from the get-go.

This book is written with metal fans in mind.
Paul would be proud to know he gave me a good metal-education