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i-will-not-be-caged · 1 year ago

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Have you ever seen an author you really like recommend another author and get a chapter or two into the book and wonder “how can someone who wrote something so brilliant recommend this???”

Anyway, that’s two books I’ve DNFed so far today and it’s not even noon

#if all the proper nouns in your fantasy world #look like you just spilled scrabble tiles on the table and picked a few #I don’t have a ton of faith in your story telling abilities #I don’t need Tolkien level linguistic expertise #but SOME coherence would be helpful #also apparently I’m VERY picky about the balance between info-dumping first chapters #and utterly baffling first chapters #this book was the former

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