Wentzel

Nostalgic

Revisado: 01-26-25

I forgot how much of the humor we had back in the 2000s always just saying slurs.

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ok

Revisado: 12-22-24

This is well written and reminds me of beneath the dragon eye moon and salvos. The book starts off good but I thought the ending where several chapters were devoted to attending a ball were a chore.

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Major plot hole

Revisado: 05-07-24

Why doesn't the protagonist take a 3 level dip in warlock? Eldrich blast would have significantly improved her ability to deal support damage in combat.

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Less historical than the description implies

Revisado: 03-17-24

Given the length I was hoping for historical context. Instead it opens with an 1 hour+ meandering rant about one of the authors political beliefs about the current situation in Palestine. Don't rant about how much you hate Israel before explaining what they're doing that made you hate them. Also the way he writes is insufferable and I can't return this book apparently.

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Real

Revisado: 03-17-24

This is a real thing that happened. I read it in a book so it must be true. Pretty messed up yo.

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book

Revisado: 03-02-24

The narrator's female voices sound like Canadians in South Park. This is likely a reference to the fact that my girlfriend lives in Canada so you wouldn't have met her.

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book

Revisado: 02-11-24

this says a lot about society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Unrealistic.

Revisado: 12-03-23

Erin managed to change someone's mind about immigration policy. My immersion is ruined. . . .

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Meh

Revisado: 11-16-23

Like its kinda good but it's a lot more slice of life stuff that seemed like filler. Also way too horny in a way that is just pure cringe.

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surprisingly... unwoke

Revisado: 11-07-23

So given the description and the author being a "feminist YouTuber" I assumed this would be fairly progressive, but it ended up being kind of a generic neoliberal YA book.

First, the blurb says that the main character realizes the demons are sentient (which means can feel emotions), which is wrong. She figures out they are "intelligent" enough for their lives to be meaningful to her. It's established that everyone knew the demons were sentient, since they could be tortured, and the main character is ok with killing sentient creatures, since she kills animals. The story is about really how their lives are actually valuable because they are "intelligent enough", based on some arbitrary standard the author sets. Similarly, the protagonist is important despite her disability because she is also very intelligent. Overall a weird take for a book about disabled people if you think about the implications for a second.

Besides that the author shoehorns in a bunch of America specific issues despite the setting being an isolated theocratic city state. Anything related to our global late stage capitalism doesn't make sense, like the housing crisis or "meat and cheese" being poor people food. Generally I think the author just reasoned that "more patriarchy = more of all the bad things" instead of any other systemic economic or societal issues.

Besides that the book is... ok. The dialogue is bad. The setting is interesting. The characters that aren't walking strawmen are good. I could see why other people like it.

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