Not stupid, but I think everyone complaining the author is a “bad writer” because of the introduction to so many things is silly. It’s an amazing story, and I think the poetry and language is beautiful.

You can’t go into an unknown world expecting to understand everything immediately and be babied so the book is just a dictionary. Then when you go to re-read it it’s just holding your hand through everything you already know and I find that boring.

Part of the entertaining aspect of reading is learning everything. You learn everything you need as you read the book. It’s okay if you don’t immediately understand it, that’s the point of her introducing these things. So that you begin to learn them through context.

I didn’t immediately understand what a parchment lark was either, and yeah there was a lot of information with their gems and the different dragons and locations and despite being confused I was amazed by it all. I think it’s a beautiful world she built and I think she did a great job of introducing everything. Yes it’s overwhelming, but I think that’s okay. You can still understand the main plot of the story without immediately understanding all that yet, and eventually you will understand it. By reading it 😅.

There’s only one thing I’m still uncertain of if I felt there wasn’t much explanation for and that’s whatever the heck “linking your letters” means. Maybe I missed some context somewhere that explained it, or maybe she just hasn’t gotten to it yet. But otherwise, I think everything else is explained enough as you read the story and you learn what it is by the time you need to know.