Trying to trust the process, but there’s so many characters and I care about so few of them

I think I’m having an issue with the structure of this, I like seeing the artifacts & blurbs but the longer explanations & geography are daunting. I think I need a museum for this knowledge, not a book.

Very quickly realized this is aggressively not for me.

DNF @ 139 pages. Weird to say but- there’s too much dialogue: everyone is constantly talking but it doesn’t seem to be furthering the plot. Looking through the reviews (although mostly positive) it just seems this one may not be for me.

The prose and setting are good, but not much is happening and it’s just boring me. Very similar to Lost Apothecary which I didn’t like.

Bailed at 37%  I’ve followed the author on insta for a while. She describes it as a “why choose/reverse harem inspired by ACOTAR with spice from book 1” & I was like “ok I ❤️ trash, let’s go” but 50% in aside from the fae being divided into “Starlight, Forest courts, etc.” nothing is like ACOTAR, the worldbuilding isn’t luscious, the characters aren’t strong archetypes, the dialogue is terrible, &the spice finally arrived with the FMC witnessing a very unsexy orgy

This just isn’t picking up for me. I had some issues with book 1 but thought maybe the story could progress in a way that interested me but I’m finding myself bored and over it with the MCs’ inability to communicate Basic information to eachother. 

Bail at 30% 

I really liked this author’s Undead & Unwed series so I was excited to ready this but there’s too much going on. Were-bear detective/social workers trying to stop trafficking of were-kids. The FMC’s dialogue & internal narration was chaotic, & very bubbly for the surrounding plot. The love interests have made no moves towards eachother yet, & I don’t care if they do which doesn’t bode well for the rest of the book

DNFing at 40%… I could probably suffer through this book but would not consider continuing the series. So it seems pointless. someone tell this MC what is going on. 😂 both of the guys are so bland. I have an inkling about how this story will go, but I have read 234 pages & nothing has happened except some boy who is probably a vampire ate a strawberry in her direction, walked her to class & smelled her hair. 

Might be a slow burn (but too slow for me)