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The Reader by Traci Chee
1.0

It is time to abandon ship me mateys!

I so wanted to love this book and yet all I can say is meh. While I liked the main character, Sefia and her side-kick Archer, it was soooo boring. All Sefia basically did was wander around in the woods forever. I hate that trope in fantasy novels. Even the passages in the novel about pirates didn’t make me happy. And for this log, that is really saying something. This novel was so hyped and loved and here I am again with an unpopular opinion. I know I made it through more than half way but then let it sit. Then me rental expired. Then I waited for a while for it to be available. Then got it again. Then tried three more times to get back into it. Then it expired again with me having only explored another handful of pages. Bah! Pirates, assassins, magic, a book within a book, two somewhat interesting main characters, and yet no major plot to speak of. So abandoned it be.

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