Dear Spellbook, Volume One

First off, the worldbuilding is excellent. Cool magic systems, cool world.

It is the nature of a time loop that “nothing happens” but this story truly drags. During many iterations of the loop, Tal just writes about the events leading up to the loop. Anything that happens already happened some time ago. He states they want to find someone named “Bearskin” but Bearskin isn't introduced in the recaps until much later in the book so it's hard to care. Every loop begins with a raging hangover, which gets annoying well before Tal finds a solution. Late in the book Tal starts finding “today” problems and figuring out solutions, so likely the second book will be better.

Audiobook complaint: Two of the characters have the same voice. They're rarely talking in the same scene, but when they are it gets confusing.