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Just reading authority figures Cruella de Cook and Discount Merlin steamroll the MC to justify the snail-speed of the plot, how about ‘no’?
Overblown, slow-paced and mulishly infantile. Lots of gaslighting.
In a nutshell: no regrets.
By 60% I was barely hanging on: good setup, but slow development and awfully obtuse dialogue were working against me when a light shone at the end of the tunnel: the MC had an strong solidly-reasoned internal conflict. His family had been gaslighting him.
What will happen now?
Cruella dC sniffs waspishly, MC mumbles his way through it and Discount Merlin pulls a ‘false premise’ and calls him infantile.
Let me point out that by this point the MC is... 14-16ish? In a ‘medieval setting’ fantasy that’s an adult and for 2/3 of the book the two authority figures in his life, Cruella de Cook (fight me, it’s near-copyright infringement) and Discount Merlin do nothing except condescend to the MC and take away his agency. I’m out.
Overblown, slow-paced and mulishly infantile. Lots of gaslighting.
In a nutshell: no regrets.
By 60% I was barely hanging on: good setup, but slow development and awfully obtuse dialogue were working against me when a light shone at the end of the tunnel: the MC had an strong solidly-reasoned internal conflict. His family had been gaslighting him.
What will happen now?
Cruella dC sniffs waspishly, MC mumbles his way through it and Discount Merlin pulls a ‘false premise’ and calls him infantile.
Let me point out that by this point the MC is... 14-16ish? In a ‘medieval setting’ fantasy that’s an adult and for 2/3 of the book the two authority figures in his life, Cruella de Cook (fight me, it’s near-copyright infringement) and Discount Merlin do nothing except condescend to the MC and take away his agency. I’m out.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Gaslighting
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