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So far this hasn't fully grabbed my attention but the end of act 1 intrigued me. I'm not big on theater and came into this blind so the constant Shakespeare quotes is a little much for me. I am going to try powering through it because the ending of act 1 interested me.

I loved this book

“I am 32 yeres old and next munth is my brithday.“ As someone who just turned 32 two days ago, this is hilarious to me 😂

I’m gonna be so real, I have no idea what is happening right now

I'm most of the way through chapter 1 and am struggling with this book: 1. I'm reading the physical and have been rocking with doing audios only for the vast majority recently. The author self-narrated volume 1 and it's on YouTube so I'll probably try that tomorrow (admittedly, it's late and I'm not in my usual comfy home for optimal reading now) 2. It's indie and there's just some issues that comes from that. Main gripe is there are paragraphs explaining details about the world, but then we just jump right back into our current MC's happenings. And that it happens about every 2 pages. Am I supposed to be retaining all this info? It feels very info dumpy but for no reason 3. Part of being indie, I'm not vibing with the author's writing style. From this page: "Kamo stared at his swollen nose and pointed at her own, trying to suppress a chuckle that has inadvertently risen to the height of her administration." Why is all that after chuckle necessary? It's just a very fluffy and "clever" style but it's falling flat for me So gonna pause for today even though I'm only a third through what I'm supposed to read and see if tomorrow's light is more forgiving

It’s interesting because whenever I’m reading, the sentences don’t make much sense but then I get to the end of the chapter and think ‘ah yes, it’s all coming together now and I must read more’ and then I go back to not understanding in the next chapter.

I genuinely can’t understand his writing which is unfortunate bc I love the premise. I read ‘I Was a Teenage Slasher,’ and I had a difficult time following his prose, but I thought it was a one-off. Quote: “Etsy?” she asked when I did show up. She was looking from my ID to me, to see which was the typo. It’s ‘Betsy’ really, I didn’t say, but a boy with a speech impediment in kindergarten… who cares? “The last name,” I told her, as politely as I could. This is on Pg 4 before I knew who the narrator was, so it took my brain minutes to decipher this. I guess her nickname is Etsy bc a kid mispronounced it, but why not say that instead of saying it’s a last name? I’m taking this too seriously lol I think this is an issue with my brain. A lot of ppl love his books, so he’s a great writer, I just can’t follow it for some reason

You know, I'm actually enjoying reading an alien romance where the characters aren't super physiologically compatible! Interesting to see how this will be handled. So many alien romances I read have the alien (male) basically just be a very strong human-like guy, well endowed and maybe green or with horns. In this book, there's a lot going on-- which completely fits with an alien