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I feel like such an outlier with both The God of the Woods and The Mercy of the Gods.
God of the Woods I finished and the more I thought about the ending, the more I didn’t like it. A couple POVs were a drag and their endings weren’t worth it. I do not think this story was worth 480 pages, you could’ve cut out the first 150 pages. The book didn’t get interesting for me until the main-ish POV came into play, I only made it to her POV because I read it with friends or else I would’ve DNF’d. I will say, I think if a worse writer wrote it, it would’ve been horrendous but she is a talented writer.
I DNF’d Mercy of the gods, I LOVE The Expanse. But I could not get hooked by around 180. I wanted to love it. But I just could not get past all the lab talk and I really only liked Dafyd. I will eventually pick it up again but I just don’t think it was what I wanted it to be when I started it.
My 2 favorite 2024 books were James and Blood Over Bright Haven!
Comment by OBNOXIOUSNAME at 20/01/2025 at 00:46 UTC
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I DNF’d Mercy of the gods, I LOVE The Expanse. But I could not get hooked by around 180. I wanted to love it. But I just could not get past all the lab talk and I really only liked Dafyd. I will eventually pick it up again but I just don’t think it was what I wanted it to be when I started it.
I slogged through it but felt the same way. Probably my biggest disappointment of last year's releases.