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Masters of Death by Olivie Blake

DNF. I got about 1/3 of the way through and wasn't having much fun being too confused. It reminded me a little but of Terry Pratchett, but, in the end the purposefully-obtuse humor, too many characters, and those chapters where they're trying to be mysterious as to which character is doing what ("the monster who had once been a man" did yadda yadda and obtained a secret). Just give me the freakin' name. No need to draw out this fuckin' mystery! It just made me confused what was going on since it wasn't linear, who they were trying to refer to, and I wasn't having fun and just getting angry.

Oh, and you know those fanfics back in the day, usually with the "crack" tag in it, where people throw their favorite characters together from different fandoms and try to make it hilarious mayhem but with poor writing and you don't know who is saying what? This book gave me that vibe too often.