Eleventh Cycle

DNFing (maybe temporarily) at 61%. slow, dense, and long adult fantasy is my bread and butter. but this was too slow even for me. to be fair, the author literally puts a disclaimer in the beginning about how this story may be confusing for awhile and you basically just have to keep going. so, points for awareness. but i don't think that was enough preparation, personally, for how slow this is.

i read 474pgs and it's been literally zero plot. it's all character-driven so far. which would be okay with me tbh if i found the characters and their situations actually interesting. there's four main characters. i only care about one of them so far, and even that one is not that great. there's one more who i actually find very intriguing but we've gotten their POV like twice in these 50+ chapters so...

and there's a particular POV in here that, if you asked me to summarize what's happened in their chapters so far, i wouldn't be able to. all that comes to my mind are the multiple weird scenes where the character walks into/overhears ppl having sex. and these scenes are described in depth over multiple pages. it just kept happening, at some point it just made me laugh cuz ??? what was the reason, genuinely.

i kinda want to finish this book bc the little hints we've gotten so far in regards to what the conflict of the series could be has me intrigued. and the world itself is kinda cool, although we don't see much of it.

idk, i'm already half way through this almost 800 page book...feel like i might as well just finish it. but i have no idea when that'll be and it annoys me every time i see this on my ‘currently reading' shelf. so for now, these are my thoughts on this massive tome that i was actually rlly excited for, originally.

UPDATE: no this is a hard DNF i cannot see myself continuing this