lassarina 's review for:

The Mountain of Kept Memory by Rachel Neumeier

DID NOT FINISH

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There are good concepts in this book - strong bones, if you will - in the worldbuilding, but I was really put off by how the initial chapters seemed to be alternating a traditional fantasy world with what felt like Deep AI Sci-Fi, and I just could not bring myself to care about that part. I liked the bit with Oressa and Gadjosik at the beginning, but after six chapters I felt like all of the conflicts were weirdly shallow and it felt like a write-by-numbers "here is an obstacle! ok solved. Here is an obstacle! ok solved." I was just bored, and there are too many books in the world to keep reading one I'm not enjoying.