Welcome to Litsy!

This is certainly not the first bail of the year but it‘s going to be a memorable one.

This may just be a DNFFN -it seems a bit needlessly complicated, but it might be good. there‘s footnotes each page, weird POV changes (POVs given by a dragon that ate the person?) I‘m just not mentally prepared for something this complicated

DNF- I was having trouble wanting to pick this up. I was excited to read about a dragon, and it does have the dragon, a wolf, a cat, a magician, and a strong woman with a past. Everything you could want, but there was mention of men‘s work, woman‘s work, and she is in hiding because maybe her husband who abused her? I went 100 pages in and it‘s just not grabbing my attention. As an inherited book it‘s time to let someone else enjoy it.

This was absolutely crap.

I've just spent an hour explaining why on Goodreads, but I'm contemplating deleting my review because it isn't at all tactful.

Seriously though, it's not often that I get this salty over a book.

⭐️

One star

I enjoyed the first book of this series, but I can't get into this one. I'm bailing at 38% mark, because the mystery isn't interesting and I feel myself actively avoiding listening to it when I have the time to do so.

DNF at 20% The dialog is very cringy and the main character is…ugh. This was a #botm off my TBR and yay a #bookspinbingo! #hailthebail

And I‘m out on this one, too. I tried to overlook the emphasis on teaching “godly” character and a biblical worldview, but now there‘s garbage about avoiding “government indoctrination” about gender and “critical race theory.” Enough dog whistles, thanks.

Annoying.

I couldn't relate to any of the many characters, who are sometimes called by their first names and sometimes their last names, which makes it even harder to keep them straight. It starts in 1663 at a wealthy English estate and then picks up in the same place in 1961. I bailed at around 25% as it seemed to be going nowhere interesting.