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I really wanted to love Katabasis. Like, genuinely, I wrote my bachelor's thesis on the descent to the underworld in Greek mythology, and I'm an Italian literature teacher who revisits the Divine Comedy every single year, so this felt like it was made for me. And yet... I found it boring. Not bad, not even disappointing, really, just boring. Alice is pretty insufferable for most of the book, and there's this constant back and forth of misunderstandings between her and Peter that could be solved in about five seconds if either of them just opened their mouth and talked. I hate that clichĂŠ with a passion (it's all over this book). The one genuinely good thing is the sheer amount of research and worldbuilding that went into the depiction of Hell (you can tell a lot of care went into that). But all that context doesn't count for much when the story itself never manages to pull you in.