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The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons
3.0

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This feels unnecesarily convoluted. there’s so many different things going on but I don’t get the purpose. it just feels like things happening in order and then leaving for something else instead of staying with what I thought was interesting?? 

 Plus I don’t care about the MC. he’s annoying. Sorry.  Some of the dialogue feels awkward, also every time the MC makes a joke it’s like, cringily anachronistically modern? idk 

I enjoyed the footnotes a lot. I like when they’re kinda funny and argue with the narrator. they kinda dropped off a lot after the start tho? 

It's also just very allonormative and don't love how it / the MC treats women tbh.