#bolinda audio guides

[nyx-b-log]

i'd love to say i finished smth this week, but i really didn't asdfghjkl

i ended up giving up on the girls are never gone about halfway through. i tried, i really fucking did, but i couldn't do it. dare is so unlikeable and inconsistent as a main character, the romance was dull, the horror wasn't scary, and the voice performance didn't always fit with the text. i appreciate the diabetes rep throughout, but that's about it.

also tried two non-fiction texts (bolinda guide to magic, and the same but for imperial china) and couldn't get into either at all. combination of the text itself being quite dense and poorly designed for audio (imperial china literally opened with a spoken timeline of dynasties, it just became white noise after the first six or so) and the actual readings themselves not being great.

the traitor baru cormorant is still good but i've still not finished it. every time i go to pick it up smth else happens and it gets shelved again 😅

am a tiny bit of the way through the faceless ones (skulduggery pleasant 3) and tho this is where the romance subplots start turning up (which i didn't like, except for one) i'm looking forward to it cos it really leans into cosmic horror later on.

short update, was basically a lot of disappointment all at once which is less than ideal. but! there's always next week!