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Fahim Farook

I don't think I've ever DNFed a book before. But this week I DNFed two.

So, overall progress has been three books this week but I'm not happy about it since I DNFed two and started the third yesterday.

I'll discuss why I DNFed each one (broadly - no spoilers).

"A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking" - this one just felt so slow, and a very abbreviated world-view. Action was sparse and when I finally ended up reading about climbing up a poop-tube (you'll know if you read the book 😛) for two whole chapters, I gave up.

"Just One Damned Thing After Another" felt much better at first, except that the main character was supposed to be smart but they keep not seeing the obvious.

They do say that they aren't smart sometimes, but if everybody else says they are, then are they all stupid?

Then there was the sex 😛 The first 8 chapters read like a Victorian romance - glances and sighs. But then it suddenly becomes a bodice-ripper in around chapter 9 or 10.

I could not recover after that and gave up soon after. It just felt so disjointed after that.

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