I think I should've dnf this early on, as soon as I saw this wasn't a book for me. Like the first chapter I almost couldn't finish, but I thought, it's too soon to have any conclusions, let's try out more. And next few chapters were an improvement. I thought simply that I had trouble with the character introductions and flimsy motivations, but once finished with that, it felt like we were going somewhere. There were some fun and interesting things that kept me going, and some engaging relationships I wanted to see more of, but each time the story would get me hooked to something, it simply refused to continue building on that tension or drama, the pacing would slow down again and the energy would simply fizzle out. And then I would again find myself thinking I should simply stop, but like a wave, something would catch my attention and I would stay.

I think my problems are mostly: too much telling, too little showing, and repetitions, which would lose my attention. I couldn't really swallow the constant mentioning of how super special and super important these six characters were. Especially since the repetitions (almost verbatim!) of their thoughts, backstories and situations weren't really what makes good characterization or character progression. Repetitions made me feel like I was going in circles instead somewhere with these characters. In the end, I just lost interest in them.

Maybe my problem is that I don't have a kink on the library of Alexandria so I couldn't get myself lost in the fantasy the story was trying to sell me.

In the end, I can't say it was all bad because I did have some fun with it which is why I feel a bit frustrated. I can understand why people love it, I truly do, but yeah. Not for me.