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Early Riser by Jasper Fforde

The book dove right in to the story and not in a good way. There was no world building and very little explanation. None of the characters were staying clear in my mind. I ended up restarting to see if I had missed something. Nope.

So I tried continuing on without overthinking it...

There were loads of footnotes, but they didn’t add much and honestly seemed more like a distraction. A few times the footnotes explained things, but I still wasn’t getting the info I needed to stay engaged with the story.

On page 47 we finally get a note about the dream that the plot was supposedly going to center around.

I made it to page 97 and bailed.