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I am so stoked to start this tomorrow 🙌

There were some genuinely good moments in this book, but on the other hand, there were so many toxic male fantasy tropes.

MC being afflicted by madness was fun for a while until it was just taking too long to cure and I got sick of being hammered over the head of how everything he perceived was fake.

I could have also gone without the martial rape garbage.

A lot of the plot points in this book were really weird and unnecessary, but when the book dealt with the main plot it was fine.

There were some parts where I was wondering if it was the aurhor's poorly disguised fetish or if it was something with the game lore itself that he borrowed from

Just finished this and it was okay. There were some really stupid plot points and decisions made but it was tolerable. This and the other two novels following it also seem to be taking place and are the cause of the events in The Out of the Abyss module. (My OOTA campaign is on a hiatus currently, but it's so amusing to me that my characters are unfortunately there to experience all of that mess)

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Last week was very off for me. I got very little reading done due to fatigue and things out of my control. Made little progress with Archmage, and was too tired for any physical reads. I hope this week will go better.

📚CR:

🎧Archmage
🎧The Witness for the Dead
🎧Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

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I am still struggling to find time to sit down and read WFTD, but I am aiming for next week. In the meantime I am continuing my Drizzt book binge, they are ones I can kind of zone out on and it wouldn't make much of a difference, so I listen to them when I play my fav MMO.

📚CR:

🎧Archmage
🎧The Witness for the Dead
🎧Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

This was one of the better ones in the series. at least one character finally got it through their head that Genocide Is Bad, Actually. MC really got on my nerves through this series, a bit less so in this particular installment.

I, in general, l don't like how he's written (omniscient yet substantial, having all the life experience and wisdom, yet learning basic life lessons like “not everyone is a bad person because of their background“

You have to suspend your disbelief on this one. I did learn a few things in this book about dnd though (mainly geography). This is a good book, if it‘s a stand alone fantasy book. My favorite character turned out to be the wizard— Cazrin.

There is a lot to unpack here. Aside from being repetitive, this one and the previous book deal with themes of good vs evil, but they lean more towards trying to justify heinous actions because the characters we follow are “good“ and the enemy is “Bad“ As readers we know that there is a third party that manipulates things from the shadows. But certain good characters claiming it's okay to slaughter the enemies because they are evil is gross to me.

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Last week was a slow reading week, but I made progress with the tagged book and finished The Aeneid. I still need to take notes on 5 of the books, but I am satisfied with having finished it. Next week I will be starting Witness because I really want to catch up to the series before the new book comes out.

📚CR:

🎧Rise of the King
🎧The Witness for the Dead