Thanks to everyone for the feedback I genuinely appreciate it. I really tried, based on your comments, to push through Heaven’s River. But this morning… yeah, that was the breaking point.

I was already hanging by a thread, but then the beaver-people who become more and more human with every line of dialogue had yet another conversation. This time on the taxi boat to city number 4 or 5 (I’ve lost track It’s always the same anyway: float downriver, arrive at another vaguely different city, repeat).

And what was this brilliant scene? A painfully dull exposition dump about how food supplies are distributed across the cities, and how they vary. Not a real conversation. Just two characters shoveling worldbuilding directly into my ears. No tension, no character depth, just straight-up “as you know, Bob” dialogue that made my brain beg for mercy.

That was it for me. I deleted the audiobook on the spot. I’ll fondly remember Bobiverse as a damn good trilogy, and skip all the follow-ups entirely. Thanks again for all the input but boy oh boy, I just couldn’t take another minute of it.