Again, not quite the kind of thing I'd want to write myself, but definitely something that will keep me reading!

I'll be coming back to this series. Both Ilona Andrews and Matt make me want to come back and finish the whole series. But there are so many books ....

5/5
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For one thing, you know what will happen ultimately based on the premise - you know that Carl will make it to the end of the dungeon 🙂

But the plot twists as he progressed were entertaining and creative. So I kept reading, and reading, and reading.

4/5
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Then I read "Dungeon Crawler Carl".

I knew Matt Dinniman a long time ago (before DCC) and he's a great guy. The book was interesting.

What interests me mostly about a book is the plot. Figuring out what will happen before it happens.

Couldn't do that much here 😛

3/5
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The story was engaging, and the writing was clean. It wasn't the kind of writing that made me want to write like that, but the story was good. And I finished the book in 4 days, which is a record for me ... Or I wasn't busy 😛

I'll be returning to this series!

2/5
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My reasoning for each book is given in the thread, but it's possible that the thread did not appear correctly? 🙂

Then there was the sex 😛 The first 8 chapters read like a Victorian romance - glances and sighs. But then it suddenly becomes a bodice-ripper in around chapter 9 or 10.

I could not recover after that and gave up soon after. It just felt so disjointed after that.

4/4
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"Just One Damned Thing After Another" felt much better at first except that the main character was supposed to be smart, but they keep not seeing the obvious.

They do say that they aren't smart sometimes, but if everybody else says they are, then are they all stupid?

3/4
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"A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking" - this one just felt so slow, and a very abbreviated world-view. Action was sparse and when I finally ended up reading about climbing up a poop-tube (you'll know if you read the book 😛) for two whole chapters, I gave up.

2/4
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Absolutely agree that it's harmful. I'm just not sure how to stop it when other people do it — do you bring it up and (possibly) derail the conversation? Or do you just accept and move on?

Also agree that not all people do it because they just want to get a thought out. How do you know though?

My point was that it isn't always a thought out thing. Most people don't think about their actions, that's basically how it is. You can get angry at it, or you can try to think of it from their perspective and move on.

Life's too short 🙂

While it might look like that, some of us do that because we can't keep a thought in our heads 🙂 We have to get the thought out, or it'll be gone in a moment.

Maybe I just talk to more people like that, but this happens to me frequently and I find out, after talking to them, that this was the case.

The last bit of writing where I really felt energized was P. Djèlí Clark's "The Dead Cat Tail Assassins" — now that was a great and wonderful ride 🙂

I'm looking to have that kind of magic. Am I asking for too much?

7/7
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I'm only halfway through, but it feels as if it could have benefitted from a bit more action. I'm going to finish before I make up my mind, but so far, I think I'll probably move on to the next author since the writing, at least in this one, is not what I was looking for.

6/7
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Now reading "A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking" by T. Kingfisher.

I'd heard a lot of praise for T. Kingfisher and so my expectations were high. Maybe too high?

She writes like I think I would 🙂 But the story is in fits and starts. There's action and then lulls...

5/7
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Better, but the book felt a bit disjointed. It was almost as if Aaronovitch wrote parts of it at different times. Sometimes the characters seemed to forget basic things that they knew earlier and so on. And the timeline seemed to shift a bit.

I'll come back to the series later.

4/7
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I read a collection of golden age science fiction stories as a palette cleanser for a couple of days. It was good but not compelling.

So back to fantasy I went since most of my TBR pile is fantasy 🙂

Next one was Ben Aaronovitch and "The Rivers of London".

3/7
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The second telegraphed what was coming so much that I kind of knew where we'd end by as soon as the first "big" plot twist started 🙂

That's actually when I decided to read different authors and figure out one whose writing I really liked enough to keep reading them.

2/7
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