October Daye series latest

I have read both Sleep no More and The Innocent Sleep.
Then I stalled for a couple of days trying to figure out my reaction.

Two things, both technically spoilers: ( Read more... )

I felt like these books covered some very rough emotional territory but used it to speed run some emotional bonds and show characters under stress. But I possibly found bits too stressful to quite like these books.

I don't know though, my reaction seems to be evolving.




also, staying up very very late to finish the first one did no favors to my reading comprehension or retention I'm sure.


I kind of feel like apologising to the books. Like, big ambitious story, told how it set out to, effective and emotional in many places
and I just went grumpy and avoidy.

Don't know if that's the books at fault.

I feel like I should give them high stars for doing what they set out to do but that my reaction to them is mixed.

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Today's random frustration: looking up some bags to double check the volume, just for Pathfinder purposes, because they're big flat rectangles so even if too small you could in theory sew several together and have one too heavy one.
But either their measurements or their volumes are wrong, because maths doesn't work like that. Math says those measurements are missing 1/6 of the listed l capacity.
And the description says there are pockets where the picture clearly lacks pockets, so are there secret inside pockets? No pictures of the insides exist.
And when the picture actually has pockets the dimensions make even less sense, and the L is still off by a large proportion.
And they swap between cm and inches in their listings in ways that suggest they used a converter and rounded them. Possibly twice in a row, explaining the inconsistencies between different colorways of the apparent same thing.
None of these numbers add up, or divide, or multiply.

Unless these things are dimensionally transcendental they're being misdescribed somehow.

... I am resisting the temptation to order them solely to measure them myself...