There's dramatic writing and then there's willfully misinterpreting a primary source to suit your portrayal of a person's character.

I'm confused and couldn't tell you anything about any of the characters. I just,,,,am not invested at all.

Forget hiring an editor, can someone proof read this book please? I DNFed after three chapters because it was simply unreadable. I am not a prose person, I have pretty low standards for writing quality, but when there is entire sentences I cannot interpret and whole words missing that make the entire sentence meaningless, even I get annoyed. Some examples:

His what?

What?

I think you meant expectation...

I know this is a pre-publication ARC and so some errors are to be expected, but I did not receive this book long before publication, and the sheer quantity of errors I found even in the few chapters I made it through concerns me for the published version.

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Life is simply too busy right now, and I don't have the mental energy. Another Day™

I just can't take any more

rat sex nightmares

. The writing is fantastic though, just the content is beyond me.

Read and liked it before years ago, I was enjoying it this time too but I wanted to read other things more

I just need to read something other than fantasy and romance right now lol. Nothing wrong with this book, just wasn't in the right mood.

My German is simply not as good as I thought it was lol, this was too hard to read. I'll come back to this in the future!

I just didn't have the energy to deal with Cyril's constant bad decisions. Yeah he has some tough experiences but he also makes so many terrible choices, and by halfway through I just couldn't. Might have gone better for me as an eyebook, because I read them far faster than audio.