Astoundings

I don't like to not finish books but I have made it to 15% of the way into The Ruin of Kings and I am not enjoying it and I feel like every new thing that happens is just making me like it less, so I think I'm bailing. The time-and-POV jumping was jarring, the names are such Bad Fantasy Names, and the whole plot just seems... annoying. I think she's trying to do a Patrick Rothfuss kind of thing but it's not working for me even as much as those did. If anyone has read it and would recommend sticking with it, though, I'd be interested to hear that, especially if you think it does something that is the sort of thing I am known to like.

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