Ronan

Such a profound story with so many interesting concepts. Short book but took me awhile to read because I kept pausing and thinking about what was being said.

The title drops were insane

Really enjoyed the start where it was practically all lore dump. The ending kind of dragged on for me and I was just waiting for the battle to happen. Don't know if I'm too keen on reading the rest of the series (or at least the first three).

I did really like the excerpts from in-universe books at the beginning of each chapter though.

A good read. I liked the way each location/building was described. Some parts were hard to read

Around a quarter of the way through he mentions that he never had a big interest in poetry/writing, that is very obvious. The writing style is very bland and made me feel like I was reading a (obviously fake) Reddit story. The stories told are very disconnected, they're not always interesting, and sometimes pointless. It just comes across as random stories in his life without any focus. I don't think I gained anything from reading this book. I did like the casualness of him trying ket near the end.

The intro by Bill Gates was also worthless

A classic Agatha Christie murder mystery. Loved the dinner party murder scene and multiple perspectives. Two characters kind of ending up being useless but I still enjoyed their story.
One complaint is that we're constantly told a certain thing about one of the characters and then the final reveal is that it isn't true, but nothing dictated throughout the book (even that characters own POV) that it wasn't true.