#i dislike slow slooow pace and focusing on the banal things are fine and dandy but not every chapter

[koifoxes]

chapter 119 atm. I think it's quite telling how slow I am with the first volume. im halfway through and ive still yet to be interested. it's just so... nothing. the substance isn't substancing. 😭 im pushing hard to finish the first volume, I still want to do right by this series that's so clearly beloved by many readers.

regardless, even if the world building so far has been okay (it's cool but extremely slow and lots of info dumping), ive correctly predicted the plot so far so im not feeling very excited by anything. atp i feel like i should be vaguely spoiled (for the first volume) to keep going.

my predictions so far is

- some dead nighthawks (preferably the prominent ones such as old neil and dunn. neil more so because he seems like he's not relevant to main point of interest/mystery; antigonus family notebook. dunn because he's written with enough charm and characterisation for you to remember, but not important enough to stay. then add more nighthawks to the mix i guess. to make you feel something, like oh they were so important.)

- new tarot member. obviously. rules of 3 so there'll be a third member atleast by the end of first vol. seems like the tarot club is gonna be a fully fledged club full of people. theyll eventually know klein's identity as the fool in the later volumes.

- involvement of the true creator somehow. idk how but somehow. clearly an antagonistic force that'll become a threat soon since they're hamming it up. influence would probably result in aforementioned nighthawks deaths

- missing man levnus or wtv his name was becomes relevant later on. clearly written with a bit too much commitment for my own liking. becomes really relevant later in the novel.

- the real cherry on top if something happens to the morreti family. knowing that there's 8 volumes total, the morreti family will eventually become involved. there's no way klein can stay with his family considering the supernatural he's going through. he's likely gonna stay away from them to protect them. the family is the only real thing of substance imo, the author is going to use that to propel you into the next volume, either that or some big new mystery that reveals the "coincidences" that keep happening to klein (preferably the person behind it)

- mr azik becomes relevant later. clearly a character for the next volumes. klein will keep in touch with him

- an important artifact will be involved. uurrrrhh I'm expecting this bc so far artifact use has been introduced twice so rules of 3. the last artifact that the nighthawks use will be really memorable. im thinking itll be used against another nighthawk because of shock factor wrow also expanding the "moral utility" of artifacts (expanding the use of artifacts)

- by the name of the volume, klein will move up sequence to clown. the "act"/role will make klein very depressed (for irony), like... clowns laugh a lot. they're cheery and stuff, so klein will laugh a lot, the acting part comes when it's in the face of danger or the "unknown". i think this is so because of one of the prominent "hidden rules" of being a seer is to be unafraid of the unknown. laughing is not only being unafraid but basically flipping it off. thats courage. this is sorta the only link i found between the two roles, other than how they both belong in a circus like klein suggests. maybe the next sequence is magician or acrobat?

- this is probably the biggest stretch but klein is probably the key to unlocking the mysteries of the gods/lords. the way he utilises the grey fog and prayers would suggest that the other gods are similar to klein. they're human like anyone else, just that they're so good at "acting" (similar to klein acting as the fool) that people think they're more than they actually are. most evident THE MULTIPLE TIMES where the tarot members motion how the fool is a "god". ritual for prayers is similar, acting as a god, etc. klein will likely find out what happens in the epochs and whatnot. the whole thing about "acting" and "digesting", with the way he is with as the fool, he'll become a god himself eventually in the later volumes.

currently 15 chapters into lotm rn. ik everyone says that i should atleast finish the first vol to know whether i should drop it but it really feels like such a chore to read through the first novel