i might get my feelings hurt with this one because there are a lot of well known/popular writers that i really love and enjoy. i read a freida mcfadden book recently and was genuinely disappointed. i grew up on agatha christie and i generally really enjoy mysteries/thrillers, and its been so long since i've enjoyed a good mystery. unfortunately for me, the writing felt very simplistic(? idk if that's the best word for it) and did not impress me at all. yes, this is a risk we all run when taking opinions/thoughts from strangers online, but i'm wondering if there are any super hyped up authors that you didn't/couldn't like at all. (this is exlcuding any authors you don't like because they are problematic in some way or the other)

I'm really enjoying the book generally, but I especially love the magic system! In so many books when there's magic, it's more or less "magic is real and it works like this". I love how here it's more complex. Just like every other aspect of humanity and culture, different people of from different backgrounds may have magic/witchcraft in common, but they have their own practices and approaches to it, even if there are similar threads running through each one. It makes it feel much closer to our own world, it's great!